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Med Term Mod 3
Muscular system, digestion system
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ABDUCTION | MOVEMENT OF LIMB AWAY FROM THE MIDLINE OF THE BODY |
| ADDUCTION | MOVEMENT OF LIMB TOWARD THE MIDLINE OF THE BODY |
| ANTIEMETIC | MEDICINE TO PREVENT OR RELEIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING |
| ASCITES | ABNORMAL ACCUMULATION OF SEROUS FLUID IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY |
| ATAXIA | LACK OF MUSCLE CORDINATION DURING INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT |
| BI- | TWICE, DOUBLE,TWO |
| BRADYKINESIA | EXTREME SLOWNESS IN MOVEMENT |
| CACHEXIA | PHYSICAL WASTING AWAY DUE TO THE LOSS OF WEIGHT AND MUSCLE MASS |
| -CELE | HERNIA, TUMOR, SWELLING |
| CHOLANGITIS | INFECTION OF THE BILE DUCT |
| CHOLECYSTECTOMY | SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE GALL BLADDER |
| CHOLECYSTITIS | INFLAMATION OF THE GALL BLADDER |
| CHOLETHIASIS | GALL STONES IN GALLBLADDER OR BILE DUCT |
| CIRCUMDUCTION | CIRCULAR MOVEMENT AT THE FAR END OF THE LIMB |
| COLONOSCOPY | VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE INNER COLON FROM THE RECTUM TO THE CECUM |
| DTR | DEEP TENDON REFLEXES |
| DIVERTICULITIS | INFLAMMATION OR INFECTION OF DIVERTICULUM IN COLON |
| DORSIFLEXTION | MOVEMENT THAT BENDS THE FOOT UPWARD AT THE ANKLE |
| DYS- | BAD, PAINFUL, DIFFICULT |
| DYSKINESIA | IMPAIRMENT OF VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, TICK OR SPASM |
| DYSPHAGIA | DIFFICULT IN SWALLOWING |
| DYSTONIA | IMPAIRMENT OF VOLUNTARY MUSCLE MOVEMENT |
| -ECTOMY | SURGICAL REMOVAL |
| EMG | ELECTROMYOGRAPHY |
| ENTER/O | SMALL INTESTINE |
| ENTERITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE SMALL INTESTINE |
| EPICONDYLITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE TISSUE SURROUNDING THE ELBOW |
| ESOPHAG/O | ESOPHAGUS |
| FASCI/O | FASCIA, FIBROUS BAND |
| FASCIITIS | INFLAMMATION OF A FASCIA |
| FIBR/O | FIBROUS TISSUE, FIBER |
| GASTR/O | STOMACH, BELLY |
| GASTROENTERITIC | INFLAMMATION OF THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE LINING THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES |
| GERD | GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE |
| HEMATEMESIS | VOMITING OF BLOOD |
| HEPAT/O | LIVER |
| HEPATOMEGALY | ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER |
| HYPERMESIS | EXTREME VOMITING THAT CAN CAUSE DEHYDRATION |
| HYPERKINESIA | INCREASE MUSCLE FUNCTION OR ACTIVITY |
| HTPERTONIA | EXCESSIVE TONE OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLES |
| HYPOTONIA | DIMINISHED TONE OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLES |
| INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION | PAIN IN LEG MUSCLE, OCCURS DURING EXERCISE RELEAVED BY REST |
| IBS | IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME |