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HLTH125 Ch.4
diseases and disorders
Question | Answer |
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iatr(o) | physician or treatment |
idi(o) | individual |
nos(o) | disease |
lith(o) | stone or calculus |
-cele | hernia |
-emia | condition of the blood |
-ia | condition |
-iasis | condition |
-mania | excessive preoccupation |
-maniac | a person who shows excessive preoccupation |
-osis | condition |
-phobia | abnormal fear |
-ptosis | prolapse (sagging) |
-ary | pertaining to |
-eal | pertaining to |
-ive | pertaining to |
-tic | pertaining to |
-ase | enzyme |
-eum | membrane |
-ium | membrane |
-ia | condition or theory |
-ism | condition or theory |
-iac | one who suffers |
-opia | vision |
-ose | sugar |
-ous | pertaining to or characterized by |
-y | state or condition |
gen(o) | beginning, origin |
-gen | that which generates |
-genic | produced by or in |
-genesis | producing or forming |
leps(o) | seizure |
log(o) | knowledge or words |
-lysin | that which destroys |
-lysis | process of destroying |
-lytic | capable of destroying |
megal(o) | large, enlarged |
-megaly | enlargement |
metr(o) | means measure, uterine tissue |
-meter | instrument used to measure |
-metry | process of measuring |
phag(o) | means eat, ingest |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-phagic | eating, swallowing |
-phagy | eating, swallowing |
phas(0) | speech |
-phasia | speech |
plas(0) | means formation, development |
-plasia | means formation, development |
-plasma | substance of cells |
pleg(0) | means paralysis |
-plegia | paralysis |
schis(o), shiz(o), schist(o) | mean split, cleft |
-schisis | mean split, cleft |
scler(o) | means hard |
-sclerosis | hardening |
scop(o) | means to examine, to view |
-scope | instrument used fro viewing |
-scopy | process of visually examining |
troph(o) | means nutrition |
-trophy, -trophic | means nutrition |
chor(o) | green |
erythro | red |
melano | black |
xantho | yellow |
histo | tissue |
lacto | milk |
sepso | infection |
septi | infection |
septo | infection |
myco | fungus |
staphylo | grapelike cluster; uvula |
strepto | twisted |
iatrogenic disorder | unfavorable response to medical treatment |
nosocomial infections | hospital acquired infections |
kleptomaina | uncontrollable and recurrent urge to steal |
hysteria | disturbed condition of the uterus |
adenopathy | enlargement of a gland |
hemolysin | substance that causes hemolysis |
hemolyze | to destroy red blood cells and cause them to release hemoglobin |
hemolysis | destruction of red blood cells |
carcinogenesis | production or origin of cancer |
biopsy | examination of tissue from the living body |
virulance | the power of a microorganism to cause disease |
antiseptic | inhibits growth of microorganisms, without killing them |
bacteriostatic | means inhibiting the growth of bacteria |
bacterialcidal | means killing bacteria |
streptococci | common way of saying steptococcalpharyingitis, step throat |
botulism | food poisoning caused by a toxin, clostridium botulinum |
fungi | microorganisms that feed by absorbing organic molecules from their surroundings |
protozoa | simplest organism of the animal kingdom |
malaria and trichomoniasis | caused by protozoa |
trichonmonaisis | human protozoal infection, std |