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Medical Terms O2
Question | Answer |
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Abdomin/o- | Abdomen |
Angi/o- | Blodd or lymph vessel |
Appen/o- | Apprendix |
Arteri/o- | artery |
arthr/o- | joint |
col/o- | colon, large intestine |
cyan/o- | blue |
dermart/o- | skin |
erythr/o- | red |
gastr/o- | stomach belly |
hepat/o- | liver |
muscul/o- | muscle |
my/o- | muscle |
nat/o- | birth |
neur/o- | neither, neutal |
ot/o- | ear hearing |
rhin/o- | nose |
path/o- | disease, suffering, feeling emotion. |
tonsil/o- | tonsil, throat |
vir/o- | poison, virus |
dys | bad, difficult, painful |
hyper | excessive, increased |
hypo | deficient, decreased |
algia | pain, painful condition |
ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out excesion |
it is | inflamation |
osis | abnornal condition disease |
ostomy | surgically creating an opening |
otomy | cutting surgical incision |
plasty | surgical repair |
rrhage | bleeding, abnormalexcessive fluid discharge |
rrhagia | same as rrhage |
rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
rrhea | flow & discharge |
rrhexis | rupture |
sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
abdominocentesis | surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity |
acronym | an acrostic |
acute | (of disease) brief & severe (opposed to chronis) |
angiography | x-ray examination of blood vessels by injecting them into them a substance |
appendectomy | surgical removal of any apendage esp, the verniform apprendix |
arterioscierosis | pathological condition of the dictionary of the circulatory system |
aethealigia | pain in the joint |
colostomy | insion into the colon |
cyanosis | pathol a bluish-purple discoloration of skin & mucous membranes usually resulting from defiency of oxegen in the blood |
dermatologist | branch of medine concerned with the skin & a disease |
diagmosis | identification of disease by the examination of symptoms & signs & by other investigation. |
diarrhea | frequent & copisious discharge of abnormally liquid faeces |
edema | excessiveaccumulation of seros fluid in the intercellular spaces of tissue |
endarterial | see the arditery |
eponym | back formation from eponymous |
erythrocyte | the red blood cells |
fissure | a grove or crack like sore of the skin |
fistula | abnormal passage usually betwwen 2 internal organs or leading from an open organto the surface of the body |
gastralia | stomach pain |
gatritis | inflamation of the stomach |
gastroenteritis | anflamation of the stomach & intestines |
gastrosis | any disease on the stomach |
hemorrhage | a profuse discharge of blood as form a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding |
hepatomegaly | abnormal enlargement of the liver usually associated with liver disease & heart failure |
hypertension | elavation of blood preassure especially the diastolic preassure |
hypotension | decreased or lowered blood preassure |
infection | the condition of suffering an infection |
inflammation | redness, swelling, pain , tendernessheat & disturbed function of an area of the body. espeacially as a reaction of tiisues to injuriod agents |
intersitial | between but not within the parts of the tissue |
intramuscular | located or occuring within a muscle |
laceration | rough jagged tear |
lession | an injury; hurt, wound |
mycosis | the presence of parasitic fungi in or any part of the body |
myelopathy | any disorder of the spinal cord or of the bone narrow |
myopathy | any annormality or disease of muscle tissue |
myorrhexis | tearing a muscle |
natal | pertaining to a person's birth |
neonatology | study of the development & disorders of newborn children |
neutritis | inflamation of a nerves |
otorhinolaryngology | study of ears & larynx or throat |
palpation | exmine touch especially for the purpose of diagnosing tools |
palpitation | an usally or abnormaly rapid or violent beating of the heart |
pathology | condition & processes of a disease |
phalanges | plural of phalanx |
poliomyelitis | viral disease usually affectin children |
progonsis | FORECAST OR PRONOSTICATION |
prostate | portaining to the prostate gland |
pyoderma | any skin eruption charactherized by pustules or the formation of pus. |
pyrosis | heart burn |
remission | abatement or diminution as of diligence labor intensity, etc |
sign | a token indication |
supination | matter produced by suppuration; pus |
supracostal | located above the ribs |
symptom | a sign or indication of something |
syndrome | group related or concident thing events actions etc |
tonsillitis | inflamation or a tonsil or the tonsills |
trauma | body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury as from violence or accident |
triage | determination of priority for action in an emergency |
viral | pertaining to or cause by a virus |