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Chapter 1 LS
intuduction to medic terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abdominocentesis | surgical puncture of the abdomen |
| acronym | A neologism created from the first letter of the each of the words in a particular phrase |
| acute | having severe symptoms and a short course |
| appendectomy | surgical removal of the appendix |
| arteriosclerosis | a group of diseases characterized by thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls |
| arthraligia | joint pain; it is a symptom of injury, infection, illnesses (in particular arthritis) |
| colostomy | surgical procedure where a portion of the large intestine is brought through the abdominal wall to carry stool out of the body. |
| cyanosis | physical sign causing bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes |
| dermatologist | A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders |
| diarrhea | an increased frequency or decreased consistency of bowel movements |
| edema | abnormally large fluid volume in the circulatory system or in tissues between the body's cells (interstitial spaces). |
| endarterial | within an artery. |
| eponym | A name of a drug, structure, or disease based on or derived from the name of a person. |
| erythrocyte | red blood cell; corpuscle; one of the formed elements in peripheral blood |
| fissure | any cleft or groove, normal or otherwise, especially a deep fold in the cerebral cortex involving its entire thickness. |
| fistula | A Fistula is a permanent abnormal passageway between two organs in the body or between an organ and the exterior of the body. |
| gastralgia | pain in the stomach or abdominal region |
| gastrosis | Any disease of the stomach |
| hemorrhage | the escape of blood from the vessels; bleeding |
| hepatomegaly | enlargement of the liver |
| hypertension | high blood pressure |
| hypotension | low blood pressure |
| infection | invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, especially that causing local cellular injury |
| inflammation | a protective tissue response to injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and the injured tissues |
| interstitial | Relating to or situated in the small, narrow spaces between tissues or parts of an organ |
| intramuscular | Within a muscle |
| laceration | the act of tearing |
| lesion | any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part |
| mycosis | any disease caused by fungi |
| myelophaty | refers to pathology of the spinal cord |
| myophathy | a muscular disease in which the muscle fibers do not function for any one of many reasons, resulting in muscular weakness |
| myorrhexis | Tearing of a muscle |
| natal | pertaining to birth |
| neonatology | The branch of pediatrics that deals with the diseases and care of newborns |
| neutritis | Inflammation of a nerve |
| otorhinolaryngology | (ear, nose, and throat) is the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the head and neck |
| palpation | a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) |
| palpitation | 1. A trembling or shaking. 2. Irregular, rapid beating or pulsation of the heart |
| pathology | The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences. Also called pathobiology |
| phalanges | They're technically your finger bones |
| poliomyelitis | A highly infectious viral disease that chiefly affects children and, in its acute forms, causes inflammation of motor neurons of the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to paralysis, muscular atrophy, and often deformity |
| prognosis | A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease |
| prostate | The prostate gland |
| pyoderma | pyogenic skin disease |
| pyrosis | a burning feeling in the stomach and esophagus, sometimes accompanied by the belching of acid fluid; heartburn. |
| remission | a. The act of remitting. b. A condition or period in which something is remitted |
| sign | an indication of the existence of something; any objective evidence of a disease |
| supination | one of the kinds of rotation allowed by certain skeletal joints, such as the elbow and the wrist joints, which permit the palm of the hand to turn up |
| suppuration | The formation or discharge of pus. |
| supracostal | Located above the ribs. |
| symptom | any subjective evidence of disease or of a patient's condition |
| syndrome | set of symptoms occurring together; the sum of signs of any morbid state; a symptom complex. |
| tonsillitis | infection and swelling of the tonsils, which are oval-shaped masses of lymph gland tissue located on both sides of the back of the throat. |
| trauma | injury ;psychological or emotional damage |
| triage | the sorting out of casualties of war or other disaster to determine priority of need and proper place of treatment. |
| viral | pertaining to or caused by a virus |
| angiography | x-ray study of the blood vessels |
| diagnosis | the determination of the nature of a case of a disease or the distinguishing of one disease from another.diagnos´tic |
| gastroenteritis | infection or irritation of the digestive tract |
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