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Chapter 10 Reading
Reading notes from Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amebiasis | infestation with amebas |
| avitaminosis | lack of vitamins |
| hyperdynamia | excessive muscle activity |
| cardiodynamics | science of the motions and forces involved in the heart's action |
| maxillary | pertaining to the maxilla |
| labor mechanism | process of the expulsion of the infant and the afterbirth through the birth canal in labor |
| defense mechanism | any self-protective physiological reaction of an organism |
| metrectasia | dilation of the uterus |
| hematometra | build up of blood in the uterus |
| neonatal | new born |
| psychoneurosis | psychic or mental disturbances |
| dysneuria | impairment of the nerve function |
| gastrohyperneuria | excessive activity of the nerves of the stomach |
| -neurium | nerve tissue |
| perineurium | connective tissue cover around the nerve fibers |
| osmics | the study of odors |
| pantosomatous | pertaining to the whole body |
| pantalgia | pain over the whole body |
| polcythemia | excessive number of red corpuscles in the blood |
| postoral | situated behind the mouth |
| postnatal | after teh occurence of birth |
| posteriad | toward the posterior party of the body |
| ramose | branching |
| stricture | abnormal narrowing of the canal, duct, or passage |
| spastic stricture | a stricture due to a muscle spasm |
| integumentary system | entire covering of the body including skin, hair, nails, skin glands, breast |
| -thermia | the generation of heat |
| hyperthermia | fever |
| -trichia , - trichosis | conditions of the hair |
| nail plate | pulling out of a diseased or infected outer layer of the nail |