Chapter 4
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| Algesi | Sensitivity to pain
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| Ultra | Excessive
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| Tom/o | To cut
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| Therapeut/o | Treatment
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| Ech/o | Sound
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| Pharmaceut/i | Drugs or medicine
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| Son/o | Ech/o
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| Diagnosis | Identification of a disease or condition by a scientific evaluation
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| Pulse | The rhythmic expansion of an artery that occurs as the heart beats
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| Percussion | Tapping the body with the fingertips or fist to evaluate internal organs and to evaluate fluid in a body cavity
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| Respiration rate | Number of breaths per minute
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| Prognosis | Predicted outcome of a disease
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| Auscultation | Listening for sounds within the body to evaluate organs or detect the fetal heart rate with a stethoscope
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| Sign | Objective evidence of a disease
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| Symptom | Itching of the skin
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| Acute | Having a short and relatively severe course
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| Specimen | A small samply or part taken from the body to represent the nature of the whole
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| An example of a sign | Rash
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| Blood pressure | Not strictly a vital sign but is also customarily included as one
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| Palpation | Feeling the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body part with the hands
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| Symptom | Subjective evidence is perceived by the patient as a...
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| Thermometer | An instrument used to measure temperature
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| Blood pressure | The pressure exerted by the circulating blood on the walls of the arteries and veins and on the chambers of the heart
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| Inspection | the examiner's observation and listening to the patient during the physical examination
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| Stethoscope | An instrument consisting of two earpieces connected by means of flexible tubing that is used to hear sounds within the body
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| Radiograph | A commonly used term that means an X-ray image
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| Air | Black or darker area on an X-ray image probably represent this
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| Computed tomography | A diagnostic imaging modality that produces a detailed image of a cross section of tissue similar to what one would see if the body or body part were cut into sections
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| Fluoroscopy | A method of viewing the X-ray image directly in real time
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| Therapeutic | Pertaining to treatment
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| Positron emission | Combining tomography and radioactive substances to produce
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| Tomography | enhanced images
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| Analgesic | A drug that relieves pain
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| Chemotherapy | Treatment of disease by chemical agents
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| Radiation Oncology | Radiotherapy
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| Diagnostic pressure | The lower reading in measuring blood pressure
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| Tomogram | A detailed image of a cross section of tissue similar to what one would see if the body or body part were actually cut into sections
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| Narcotics | Substances that produce insensibility or stupor
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| Contrast imaging | The use or radiopaque materials to make intenal organs visible
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| Fluoroscope | An instrument that projects an X-ray image on a screen during fluoroscopy
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| Radiology | The branch of medicice that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases with x-rays and radioactive substances
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| Neoplasm | May be benign or malignant
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| White | The color in an x-ray image shown for metals, such as lead or steel
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| Radiopaque | Substances that do not permit the passage of x-rays
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| Remission | Disappearance of the characteristics of malignant tissue
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| Antimicrobial | Drugs that destroy or inhibit the growth of microbes
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| Auscultation | Listening for sounds within the body with a stethoscope
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| Pharmacotherapy | Treatment of diseases with drugs or medicines
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| Echogram | Sonogram
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