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Pathology terms ARC
med term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acute | a single, traumatic event |
| Chronic | persisting for a long time or constantly recurring |
| Complication | secondary disease or condition aggravating an already existing one. |
| Contraindicated | a condition or circumstance suggest or indicate that a particular technique should not be used |
| Demographic | a particular sector of a population |
| Diagnosis | identification of the nature of an illness or other problem |
| Endemic | disease or condition regularly found among particular people or in a certain area |
| Epidemic | widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community |
| Idiopathic | denoting any disease or condition that arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. |
| Incidence | the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease |
| Indication | a valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery |
| Lesion | region in an organ or tissue that has suffered damage through injury or disease |
| Local | belonging or relating to a particular area |
| Morbidity | the proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality. |
| Mortality | the state of being subject to death |
| Pandemic | disease: prevalent over a whole country or the world |
| Prevalence | measurement of all individuals affected by the disease at a particular time |
| Prognosis | forecast of the likely course of a disease or ailment |
| Sign | indication of a medical condition that can be objectively observed |
| Stenosis | the abnormal narrowing of a passage in the body. |
| Subacute | condition between acute and chronic. |
| Symptom | a physical or mental feature that is regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient. |
| Syndrome | group of symptoms that consistently occur together or a condition characterized by a set of associated symptoms. |
| Systemic | relating to a system |
| Trauma | physical injury |
| A- , an-: | no; not; without |
| Acro-: | extremeties; top; extreme point |
| Adeno-: | gland |
| -Algia: | pain |
| Angio-: | vessle |
| Arthr-: | joint |
| Brady-: | slow |
| Carcin-: | cancer |
| Cardio-: | heart |
| Cervi-, cervico- : | neck |
| -Cele: | hernia |
| Cep-, Ceph-: | head |
| Chole: | bile: gall |
| Com-, con-: | together/with |
| Contra-: | against: opposite |
| Cyst: | bladder: sac of fluid |
| Demo-: | people |
| Derm-: | skin |
| Dia-: | complete |
| Dys-: | painful: difficult: abnormal |
| Ecto-, | out of |
| -Emia: | blood condition |
| Endo-: | Into: inside |
| Epi- | above: upon |
| Erythr-: | red |
| Ex-: | out: away from |
| -Gen: | substance that produes |
| Glyco-: | sugar |
| -Graphy: | process of recording |
| Hemo-: | blood |
| Hemi-: | half |
| Hepat-: | liver |
| Hydro-: | water |
| Hyper-: | above: exsessive |
| Hypo-: | under: below, less than normal |
| -Itis: | inflammation |
| -Lepsis: | seizure |
| Leuko-: | white |
| Lipo-: | fat: lipid |
| Litho-: | stone; calculus |
| -Logy: | study or process of. |
| -Lysis, -lyso: | breakdown; separation |
| Mega-: | large |
| Meno-: | menses; menstruation |
| Metr-: | uterus (womb); measure |
| Micro-: | small |
| Myco-: | fungus |
| Mye-: | spinal cord; bone marrow |
| Myo-: | muscle |
| Narco-: | numbness |
| Necro-: | death |
| Neo-: | new |
| Nephro-: | kidney |
| Neuro-: | nerve |
| -Oid: | resembling; derived from |
| -Oma: | tumor; mass; fluid collection |
| Onco-: | tumor |
| Orchi-: | testis |
| Osis: | condition, usually abnormal |
| Osteo-: | bone |
| Para-: | more than one |
| Peri-: | surrounding |
| Phagia-: | eating; swallowing |
| Philia: | attraction for; |
| Phleb-: | vein |
| Phyto-: | plant |
| Plasia: | development |
| -Plasm, -plasma: | formation; structure |
| Patho-: | disease |
| Physio-: | nature; function |
| Pseudo-: | false |
| Psych-: | mind |
| Ren-: | kidney |
| -Rrhagia, -rrhea: | flow; discharge |
| Rhino-: | nose |
| Sarco-: | sacrum |
| Sclero-: | sclera (white of eye) |
| Spondy-: | vertebra (backbone) |
| -Stasis: | to stop; control; place |
| Stoma-: | mouth |
| Syn-, Sym-: | together; with |
| Thrombo-: | clot |
| Therm-: | heat |
| -Trophy, -trophic: | nourishment; development |
| Vaso-: | vessel |
| Bacilli | a disease-causing bacterium |
| Diplococci | a bacterium that occurs as pairs |
| Staphylococci | a bacterium of a genus that includes many pathogenic kinds that cause pus formation, especially in the skin and mucous membranes |
| Streptococci | pathogens causing various infections such as scarlet fever and pneumonia. |
| Spirochetes | a flexible spirally twisted bacterium, especially one that causes syphilis |
| Mycoplasm | any of a group of small typically parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and sometimes cause diseases. |
| Antibiotics | medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms. |
| Virus | an infective agent too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host. |
| Prion | any of various infectious proteins that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins |
| Virulence | degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of parasites as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the tissues of the host |
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