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PATHO
3RD QUARTER
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ABDOMINAL HERNIA | TEAR IN THE MUSCULAR ABDOMINAL WALL |
| ADHESION | SCAR TISSUE FORMS AND LOOPS OF THE BOWEL ADHERE TOGETHER |
| ANASARCA | GENERALIZED MASSIVE EDEMA |
| ANEMIA | DECREASE IN RBC, HEMOGLOBIN OR BOTH |
| PRIMARY ANEMIA | DECREASE PRODUCTION |
| SECONDARY ANEMIA | DESTRUCTION OF RBC |
| PERNICIOUS ANEMIA | RED, PAINFUL TONGUE |
| APLASTIC ANEMIA (PRIMARY) | STOPPAGE OF BLOOD CELL FORMATION IN BONE MARROW |
| SICKLE CELL ANEMIA (SECONDARY) | genetic defect in manufacture of hemoglobin |
| ANEURYSM | BLOOD FILLED SACLIKE DILATION OF THE WALL OF AN ARTERY |
| CEREBRAL ANEURYSM | STROKE |
| AORTA ANEURYSM | SYPHILLIS |
| DISSECTING ANEURYSM | SEPARATION BETWEEN THE WALL OF AN ARTERY |
| SACCULAR ANEURYSYM | BULGING SAC |
| FUSIFORM ANEURYSM | SWELLING AROUND ENTIRE ARTERY |
| APHTHOUS STOMATITIS | AKA CANKER SORES TINY WHIULCERS THAT FORM IN THE MOUTH |
| APPENDICITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX |
| ARTERIOSCLEROSIS | HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES |
| ARTERITIS | INFLAMMATION INVOLVING ARTERIES |
| ASCITES | EDEMA IN THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY |
| ATHEROSCLEROSIS | PLAQUE IN THE WALLS OF ARTERIES |
| BILE | CONTAINS BILIRUBIN, BILIRUBIN CAUSES JAUNDICE |
| BLOOD PRESSURE | RESISTANCE OF BLOOD FLOW *SYSTOLIC # IS 1ST DIASTOLIC (FILL BACK UP WITH BLOOD) IS 2ND |
| BRADYCARDIA | SLOW HEART BEAT |
| CARCINOMA | MALIGNANT TUMOR |
| CARDIOMYOPATHY | DISEASE OF THE HEART MUSCLE |
| CHOLANGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BILE DUCTS |
| CHOLECYSTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GALLBLADDER |
| CHOLELITHIASIS | FORMATION OF GALL STONES |
| CIRCULATORY SHOCK | REDUCTION OF BLOOD FLOW IN THE BODY |
| CIRRHOSIS | A DEGENRATION/ATROPHY OF THE PARENCHYMA CELLS OF AN ORGAN WITH HYPERTROPHY OF THE INTERSTIAL CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CAUSES SEVER LIVER PROBLEMS |
| COAGULATION | BLOOD CLOT FORMING |
| COLD SORES/ FEVER BLISTERS | CAUSED BY HERPES SIMPLEX 1 |
| COLITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE COLON |
| CONGENITAL DISEASE | BEGINS BEFORE BIRTH |
| CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE | HEART IS NOT ABLE TO PUMP BLOOD ADEQUATELY TO MEET THE BODY'S NEEDS. SYMPTOMS INCLUDE: RIGHT SIDE OF HEART=SWOLLEN ANKLES LEFT SIDE OF HEART= CONGESTION IN LUNGS |
| CYANOSIS | BLUISH APPEARANCE OF THE SKIN FROM DEFICIENT OXYGENATION OF BLOOD |
| CYSTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER |
| DEFIBULATE | PUT BACK INTO SINUS RHYTHM |
| DEFICIENCY | DISEASE DUE TO LACK OF DIETARY SUBSTANCE |
| DEHYDRATION | AKA DESSICATION; DECREAS IN TOTAL BODY FLUID |
| DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PATHWAY | PHARYNX, ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, SMALL INTESTINE, CECUM(CONNECTS SMALL/LARGE INTESTINE TOGETHER), LARGE INTESTINE, COLON RECTUM, ANUS |
| DILATION | INCREASE IN SIZE OF HEART DUE TO STRETCHING OF MUSCLE FIBERS |
| DIVERTICULA | SINGULAR SMALL SAC IN WALLS OF HOLLOW ORGANS |
| DIVERICULITITIS | INFLAMMATION OF DIVERTICULA |
| DIVERTICULOSIS | THE PRESENCE OF A # OF DIVERTICULA OF THE INTESTINE |
| DRY GANGRENE | WHEN THE BODY THAT DIES HAD LITTLE BLOOD AND REMAINS ASEPTIC. OCCURS WHEN THE ARTERIES (NOT THE VEINS) ARE OBSTRUCTED |
| ECCHYMOSIS | BRUISE; PURPLISH PATCH CAUSE BY EXTRAVASATION OF BLOOD INTO THE SKIN |
| EDEMA | AKA DROPSY; EXCESSIVE FLUID IN TISSUES |
| EMBOLISM | FOREIGN MATTER CARRIED IN THE BLOODSTREAM |
| ENDOCARDITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE ENDOCARDIUM (LINING OF THE HEART) |
| ENTERITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINE |
| EPISTAXIS | NOSEBLEED |
| ERYTHROBLASTOSIS FETALIS | (SECONDARY ANEMIA) MOTHER WHO IS RH- CARRIES A CHILD WHO IS RH+ |
| ERYTHROBLASTS | IMMATURE RBC |
| ERYTHROCYTES | RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC) |
| ERYTHROCYTOSIS | INCREASE IN RBC (PHYSIOLOGICAL) |
| ESOPHAGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE ESOPHAGUS *ACUTE=OVER EATING CHRONIC=GERD |
| EXUDATE | FLUID EXUDING FROM BLOOD BESSELS AND DEPOSITED IN TISSUES DUE TO INFLAMMATION |
| FIBULATE | CONTRACTION IS ERRATIC AND THE BLOOD MOVES AS DESIGNED |
| FORMEN OVALE | IN ATRIAL SEPTUM OF FETUS; BYPASS ALLOWS BLOOD FLOW FROM RIGHT ATRIUM DIRECTLY INTO LEFT ATRIUM; PLACENTS IS RESPIRATORY ORGAN FOR FETUS |
| GANGRENE | NECROSIS COMBINED WITH PUTREFACTON |
| GASTRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH |
| GINGIVITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GIGIVAL TISSUE IN THE MOUTH |
| GLOSSITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE TONGUE |
| HEART | PLUMP, MUSCULAR ORGAN THAT HAS 3 PARTS |
| 3 PARTS OF THE HEART | ENDOCARDIUM, MYOCARDIUM, EPICARDIUM |
| ENDOCARDIUM | INNER LAYER OF HEART |
| MYOCARDIUM | MIDDLE MUSCLE LAYER |
| EPICARDIUM | OUTER LAYER |
| PERIDCARDIUM | DOUBLE LAYERED SAC COVERING THE HEART |
| ATRIUM | RECEIVING CHAMBER OF OXYGEN POOR BLOOD |
| VENTRICLES | PUMPING CHAMBER FOR OXYGEN RICH BLOOD |
| HEMAPERICARDIUM | BLEEDING INTO PERICARDIAL CAVITY |
| HEMAPERITONEUM | BLEEDING INTO PERITONEAL CAVITY |
| HEMATEMESIS | VOMITTING OF BLOOD |
| HEMATOMA | BLOOD CYST |
| HEMOGLOBINOPATHY | MAKING WRONG PROTEIN; SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR HEMOGLOBIN |
| HEMOPHILIA | INHERITED HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE, SPONTANEOUS BLEEDING |
| HEMOPTYSIS | BLEEDING FROM THE LUNGS OR BRONCHIAL TUBES |
| HEMORRHAGE | BLEEDING, FLOW OF BLOOD |
| HEMORRHOIDS | VARICOSE VEINS IN THE RECTUM |
| HEMOTHORAX | BLEEDING IN TO THE PLEURAL CAVITY |
| HEPATITIS A | AKA INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS (HAV)-FOOD/WATER BORNE ILLNESS |
| HEPATITIS B | AKA SERUM HEPATITIS (HVB)-BLOOD BORNE PATHOGEN THROUGH BODY FLUIDS |
| HEPATITIS C (HCV) | AKA NON-A NON-B "SILENT EPIDEMIC" KILLING MORE PEOPLE THAN AIDS IN THE USA |
| HEPATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER |
| HERNIA | PROTRUSION OF AN ORGAN THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE CAVITY IN WHICH IT IS CONTAINED |
| UMBILICAL HERNIA | OCCURS IN INFANTS |
| HIATAL HERNIA | STOMACH PART THROUGH THE ESOPHAGEAL |
| STANGULATED HERNIA | BLOOD SUPPLY IS PINCHED OFF RESULTING IN NECROSIS AND GANGRENE |
| INGUIRAL HERNIA | GROIN AREA |
| HYDROPERICARDIUM | ABNORMAL ACCUMULATION OF FLUID WITHIN THE PERICARDIAL SAC |
| HYDROTHORAX | NON INFLAMMATORY EFFUSION OF SEROUS FLUID IN THE PLEURAL CAVITY |
| HYPEREMIA | AKA CONGESTION; INCREASED AMOUNT OF BLOOD IN A PART |
| ACTIVE HYPEREMIA | PURPOSEFULLY PUT PHYSIOLOGICAL -EXERCISE PATHOLOGICAL-INJURY |
| PASSIVE HYPEREMIA | (ALWAYS PATHOLOGICAL)-VENOUS DRAINAGE FROM AN AREA IS DECREASE; BLOOD CLOTS |
| HYPERTENSION | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE |
| HYPOSTATIC CONGESTION | BLOOD SETTLES IN THE DEPENDENT PARTS OF THE LIVING BODY |
| IDIOPATHIC | SPONTANEOUS DISEASE WITHOUT RECOGNIZABLE CAUSE |
| INFARCTION | NECROSIS IN A TISSUE CAUSED BY OBSTRUCTION IN THE ARTERY SUPPLYING THE AREA |
| INFLAMMATION | MORBID CHANGE PRODUCED IN THE TISSUES BY IRRITANT |
| INTUSSUSCEPTION | SLIPPING/TELESCOPING OF INTESTINE |
| ISCHEMIA | LOCAL ANEMIA; TEMPORARY LACK OF BLOOD SUPPLY TO AN AREA |
| JAUNDICE | YELLOWISH STAINING; EXCRETIONS OF BILE PIGMENTS |
| LARGE INTESTINE | ASCENDING COLONG, TRANSVERSE COLON, DESCENDING COLON, SIGMOID COLON |
| LEUCOCYTOSIS | INCREASE OF WBC IN THE BLOOD |
| LEUKEMIA | AKA "WHITE BLOOD" THE WBC GROWTH/DEVELOPMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL |
| LEUKOCYTES | WHITE BLOOD CELLS *5 KIND (NEVER LET MONKEYS EAT BANANAS) |
| LEUKOPENIA | LOW WBC COUNT;OPPOSITE OF LEUKMIA |
| LIVER | MOST COMPLEX, HAS 3 LOBES, SECRETES BILE, STORES EXCESS GLUCOSE, DETOX BODY |
| MELENA | TARRY FECES, BLACK VOMIT |
| MENINGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE MEMBRANES OF THE BRAIN OR SPINAL CORD |
| MOIST (WET) GANGRENE | NECROTIC TISSUE THAT IS WET, AS A RESULT OF INADEQUATE VENOUS DRAINAGE; INVASION OF SAPROPHYTIC BACTERIA |
| MUCOUS PATCHES | INFLAMMATORY LESIONS IN THE MOUTH (CAUSED BY TREPONEMA PALLIDUM) |
| MYELITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINAL CORD OR THE BONE MARROW |
| MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION | HEART ATTACK; DAMAGE TO THE MYOCARDIUM |
| MYOCARDITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE MUSCULAR WALLS OF THE HEART |
| OCCLUSION | BLOCKING OFF/CLOSING OFF |
| PANCREATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PANCREAS (IDIOPATHIC) |
| PARLYSIS | LACK OF BLOOD SUPPLY TO THE INTESTINE |
| PAROXYSMAL | COMES AND GOES |
| PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS | OPENING BETWEEN THE PULMONARY AND AORTA, FAILURE TO CLOSE |
| PEPTIC ULCER | IN MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF STOMACH OR DUODENUM; CAUSED BY THE ACTION OF HIGHLY ACIDIC GASTRIC JUICE |
| PERICARDITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PERICARDIUM |
| PERITONITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM (LINING OF THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY) |
| PETECHIA | PINHEAD RED SPOT DUE TO LEAKAGE OF THE CAPILLARY |
| PHARYNGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PHARYNX |
| PHLEBITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE VEIN |
| PLATELETS | THROMBOCYTES |
| POLYCYTHEMIA VERA | INCREASE IN TOTOAL RBC MASS |
| PREDISPOSING FACTORS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE | HEREDITY, OBESITY, DIET, DIABETES, STRESS, ADDICTIONS |
| PROCTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE RECTUM |
| PROLAPSE | TURNING BACKWARDS INTO ATRIUM AFFECTING THE MITRAL/BICUSPID VALVE |
| PURPURA | AN AFFECTION CHARACTERIZED BY HEMORRHAGE INTO THE SKIN |
| PYELITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PELVIS OF THE KIDNEY |
| RHEUMATIC FEVER | FEBRILE, SYSTEMATIC, CAUSES ASCHOFFS BODIES (SMALL NODULES), USUALLY IN MITRAL VALVE |
| RHINITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE NASAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE |
| SEPTAL DEFECT | MOST COMMON MIXING OF BLOOD BETWEEN RIGHT/LEFT SIDES FO THE HEART BECAUSE OF HOLE |
| SINUSITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE SINUS CAVITITES |
| SMALL INTESTINE | DUODENUM, JEJUNUM,ILEUM |
| STENOSIS | NARROWING OF ANY CANAL/VALVE |
| STOMATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE MOUTH |
| SYNCOPE | FAINTING; MILD FORM OF SHOCK |
| TACHYCARDIA | RAPID HEART BEAT |
| THROMBOCYTOPENIA | DECREASED PLATELETS IN THE BLOOD |
| THROMBOSIS | FORMATION OF A CLOT IN A BLOOD VESSEL |
| THRUSH | FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE MOUTH *CAUSED BY CANDIDA ALBICANS |
| TONSILITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE TONSILS |
| ULCER | A LESION OF A CUTANEOUS OR MUCOUS SURFACE |
| VARICOSE VEIN | VARICES, VEINS DIALATED AND TORTUOUS |
| VOLVULUS | TWISTING LOOP OF INTESTINES |
| INTESTINAL INFECTIONS | AMOEBIC DYSENTERY, TYPHOID FEVER, BACILLARY DYSENTERY, TUBERCULOSIS |
| CAUSES OF FOOD POISONING | STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS, CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS, CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM |
| A -PREFIX | WITHOUT OR NOT |
| ACRO -PREFIX | EXTREMITY |
| ADENO -PREFIX | GLAND |
| AN -PREFIX | WITHOUT |
| ANTE -PREFIX | BEFORE |
| ANTI -PREFIX | AGAINST |
| ARTHRO -PREFIX | JOINT |
| AUTO -PREFIX | SELF |
| BIO -PRFIX | LIFE |
| CHOL -PRFIX | BILE |
| CYST -PREFIX | BLADDER |
| DIA -PREFIX | THROUGH |
| DYS -PREFIX | DIFFICULT |
| EN -PREFIX | IN |
| ENDO -PREFIX | WITHIN |
| ENTERO -PREFIX | INTESTINE |
| EPI -PREFIX | UPON |
| EX -PREFIX | OUT OF |
| HEM, HEMO -PREFIX | BLOOD |
| HETERO -PREFIX | DISSIMILAR |
| HOMEO -PREFIX | SIMILAR |
| HYDRO -PREFIX | WATER |
| HYPER -PREFIX | ABOVE OR EXCESS |
| HYPO -PREFIX | DEFICIENCY OR BENEATH |
| HYSTER -PREFIX | UTERUS |
| INFRA -PREFIX | BELOW |
| INTER -PREFIX | WITHIN |
| LEUKO -PREFIX | WHITE |
| MACRO -PREFIX | LARGE |
| MAL -PREFIX | BAD |
| MAST -PREFIX | BREAST |
| MEGA -PREFIX | GREAT |
| MELAN -PREFIX | THICK |
| MEN -PREFIX | MONTH |
| MICRO -PREFIX | SMALL |
| MYO -PREFIX | MUSCLE |
| MYX -PREFIX | MUCUS |
| NECRO -PREFIX | DEATH |
| NEO -PREFIX | NEW |
| NEPHR -PREFIX | KIDNEY |
| OLIGO -PREFIX | FEW |
| OSTEO -PREFIX | BONE |
| PERI -PREFIX | AROUND |
| PHAGO -PREFIX | TO EAT |
| PHLEB -PREFIX | VEIN |
| POLIO -PREFIX | GRAY |
| POLY -PREFIX | MANY, EXCESS |
| POST -PREFIX | AFTER |
| PRO -PREFIX | BEFORE |
| PSEUDO -PREFIX | FALSE |
| PYO -PREFIX | PUS |
| SYN -PREFIX | TOGETHER WITH |
| XANTHO -PREFIX | YELLOW |
| ALGIA | PAIN |
| ANGIO | VESSEL |
| ASE | ENZYME |
| CELE | A PROTRUSION |
| CENTESIS | PERFORATING |
| CHOLE | BILE |
| ECTASIS | DILATE |
| EXTOMY | REMOVAL OF |
| EMESIS | VOMIT |
| EMIA | BLOOD |
| ESTHESIA | SENSATION |
| GENESIS | GENERATION OF |
| IASIS | A PROCESS |
| ITIS | INFLAMMATION OF |
| LITH | STONE |
| LYSIS | TO DISSOLVE |
| MALACIA | SOFTENING |
| MEGALY | LARGE |
| ODYNIA | PAIN |
| OID | LIKE |
| OMA | TUMOR |
| OSIS | FULL OFF |
| OSTOMY | MOUTH |
| PATHY | DISEASE |
| PENIA | POVERTY, DECREASE |
| PHILA | AFFINITY FOR |
| PLASIA | TO FORM |
| PLEGIA | PARALYSIS |
| PNEA | BREATH |
| PTOSIS | FALLING |
| RHAGIA | BURSTING FORTH |
| RHEA | FLOW |
| SCLEROSIS | HARDENING |
| STASIS | STANDING STILL |
| TROPHY | NOURISH |
| URIA | RELATING TO URINE |
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