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terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ANEURISM | WIDENING OF THE BLOOD VESSEL |
| ANGINA | CHEST PAIN CAUSED BY LOSS OF OXYGENATED BLOOD FLOW |
| ATHEROSCLEROSIS | HARDENING OF THE ARTERY |
| BRADYCARDIA | ABNORMALLY SOW HEART RATE |
| CARDIOMYOPATHY | DISEASE OF THE HEART MUSCLE |
| EMBOLISM | OBSTRUCTION IN BLOOD FLOW |
| ENDOCARDITIS | INFLAMMATION INSIDE THE HEART MUSCLE |
| FIBRILLATION | A SMALL INVOLUNTARY MUSCULAR CONTRACTION |
| HYPERTENSION | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE |
| LEUKOCYTE | WHITE BLOOD CELLS |
| PHLEBITIS | INFLAMMATION OF A VEIN |
| TACHYCARDIA | ABNORMALLY RAPID HEART RATE |
| THROMBOSIS | BLOOD CLOTS IN THE VASCULAR SYSTEM |
| VENOUS | PERTAINING TO THE VEINS |
| ADENOMA | BENIGN GLANDULAR TUMOR |
| DIABETIC | PANCREATIC DISORDER OF INSUFFICIENT INSULIN PRODUCTION |
| ENDOCRINE | PERTAINING TO GLANDS THAT SECRETE HORMONES INTO THE BLOODSTREAM |
| EUTHYROID | NORMAL THYROID |
| HYPERGLYCEMIA | HIGH BLOOD SUGAR |
| HYPERLIPIDEMIA | INCREASE OF LIPIDS IN THE BLOOD |
| HYPERPLASIA | EXCESSIVE GROWTH OR FORMATION |
| HYPERSECRETION | ABNORMAL INCREASED SECRETION |
| HYPOTHYROIDISM | A DEFICIENCY OF THYROID SECRETION |
| MYXEDEMA | ADULT ONSET HYPOTHYROIDISM |
| PANCREATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PANCREAS |
| PARATHYROID | NEXT TO THE THYROID GLAND |
| SOMATIC | PERTAINING TO THE BODY |
| TETANY | MUSCLE TWITCHES, CRAMPS, CONVULSIONS |
| ANOREXIA | LOSS OF APPETITE |
| APHAGIA | INABILITY TO SWALLOW |
| COLITIS | INFLAMED OR IRRITABLE COLON |
| DIARRHEA | LIQUID OR UNFORMED BOWEL MOVEMENT |
| DUODENAL | PERTAINING TO THE DUODENUM |
| DYSPEPSIA | CONDITION OF INDIGESTION |
| ESOPHAGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE ESOPHAGUS |
| GASTRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH |
| GASTROENTERITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINAL TRACT |
| HEMATEMESIS | VOMITING OF BLOOD |
| HEPATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER |
| HEPATOMA | LIVER TUMOR |
| HERNIA | PROTRUSION OF ORGAN OR TISSUE |
| LAPAROSCOPY | OPERATION DONE IN THE ABDOMEN |
| ALOPECIA | HAIR LOSS |
| CELLULITIS | INFECTION OF THE SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE |
| DERMATITIS | SKIN INFLAMMATION |
| DERMATOMYCOSIS | FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE SKIN |
| DIAPHORESIS | EXCESSIVE SWEATING |
| DYSKERATOSIS | ABNORMAL KERATIN FORMATION IN THE EPIDERMIS |
| ECZEMA | CHRONIC SKIN INFLAMMATION |
| EPIDERMIS | TOP LAYER OF SKIN |
| KERATOSIS | AREA OF INCREASED HARDNESS |
| MELANOMA | BLACK TUMOR |
| ONYCHMYCOSIS | FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE NAILS |
| PACHYDERM | ABNORMAL THICKNESS OF SKIN |
| SUBCUTANEOUS | BENEATH THE SKIN |
| TRANSDERMAL | THROUGH THE SKIN |
| ADENOPATHY | DISEASE OF THE LYMPH NODES |
| ANEMIA | DECREASE IN RED BLOOD CELLS |
| BACTEREMIA | PRESENCE OF BACTERIA IN THE BLOODSTREAM |
| HEMATOMA | A COLLECTION OF BLOOD, OFTEN CLOTTED |
| HEMOPHILIA | A DISEASE IN WHICH THE BLOOD DOES NOT CLOT NORMALLY |
| HYPERURICEMIA | EXCESSIVE LEVEL OF URIC ACID IN THE BLOOD |
| LEUKEMIA | INCREASE IN WHITE BLOOD CELLS |
| LYMPHOCYTE | IMMUNE RESPONSE CELL |
| LYMPHOCYTOPENIA | DECREASED NUMBER OF LYMPHOCYTES |
| LYMPHOID | RESEMBLING CLEAR LYMPH FLUID |
| PHLEBOTOMY | PUNCTURE OF VEIN TO DRAW BLOOD |
| SEPTICEMIA | SYSTEMIC BLOOD INFECTION |
| SPLENECTOMY | REMOVAL OF THE SPLEEN |
| THYMOMA | TUMOR OF THE THYMUS |
| ATROPHY | PROCESS OF SHRINKING MUSCLE SIZE |
| BURSITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BURSA |
| CHONDROMALACIA | SOFTENING OF CARTILAGE |
| DYSTROPHY | PROGRESSIVE ATROPHY |
| FIBROMA | TUMOR OF FIBROUS TISSUE |
| FIBROMYALGIA | CHRONIC PAIN IN THE MUSCLES |
| HYPERTROPHY | PROCESS OF INCREASE IN MUSCLE SIZE |
| HYPOTONIA | DECREASE IN MUSCLE TONE |
| MYALGIA | MUSCLE PAIN |
| MYASTHENIA | CHRONIC MUSCULAR WEAKNESS |
| MYONECROSIS | INCREASE IN MUSCLE DEATH |
| MYOPLASTY | PLASTIC SURGERY OF MUSCLE TISSUE |
| RHABDOMYOLYSIS | BREAKING DOWN OF STRIATED MUSCLE |
| TENDINITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE TENDON |
| ANALGESIA | WITHOUT PAIN |
| ANESTHESIA | LACK OF SENSATION |
| ANTIDEPRESSANT | DRUG THAT COUNTERACTS DEPRESSION |
| AUTONOMIC | PERTAINING TO INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS |
| DEMENTIA | DISORIENTATION, CONFUSION, LOSS OF MEMORY |
| DYSPHASIA | DIFFICULTY IN SPEAKING |
| ENCEPHALITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN |
| EPILEPSY | DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY RECURRENT SEIZURES |
| MENINGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE MENINGES |
| MYELAGIA | PAIN OF THE SPINAL CORD |
| NEURALGIA | SEVERE PAIN ALONG THE NERVE |
| NEUROMA | TUMOR OF NERVE CELLS |
| PARALYSIS | BREAKING DOWN OF MOTOR CONTROL |
| PSYCHOSIS | PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER |
| ARTHRALGIA | JOINT PAIN |
| ARTHRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINT |
| CARPAL | PERTAINING TO THE WRIST |
| CRANIOMALACIA | SOFTENING OF THE SKULL |
| LORDOSIS | FORWARD CURVE OF SPINE, SWAYBACK |
| OSTEALGIA | BONE PAIN |
| OSTEOARTHRITIS | CHRONIC BONE AND JOINT DISEASE |
| OSTEOCARCINOMA | CANCEROUS BONE TUMOR |
| OSTEOCHONDROSIS | BONE AND CARTILAGE DISEASE |
| OSTEOPOROSIS | DECREASED BONE DENSITY AND POROSITY |
| PERIOSTEITIS | INFLAMMATION AROUND THE BONE |
| PHALANGIA | PAIN IN FINGER OR TOE BONES |
| RACHITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE SPINE |
| SCOLIOSIS | ABNORMAL LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE |
| SPONDYLITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE VERTEBRAE |
| AMENORRHEA | ABSENCE OF MENSTRUATION |
| ANOVULATION | ABSENCE OF OVULATION |
| CERVICITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE CERVIX |
| CONDYLOMA | GENITAL WART |
| DYSMENORRHEA | MENSTRUAL PAIN |
| DYSTOCIA | DIFFICULT CHILDBIRTH |
| ECLAMPSIA | SEVERE TOXEMIA DURING PREGNANCY |
| ENDOMETRIOSIS | ABNORMAL GROWTH OF UTERAL TISSUE |
| GYNECOLOGY | STUDY OF FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS |
| MAMMOGRAM | PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE BREAST |
| MASTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BREAST |
| SALPINGOCYESIS | PREGNANCY IN FALLOPIAN TUBE |
| VAGINITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE VAGINA |
| ANDROID | RESEMBLING A MALE |
| ANDROPHOBIA | MORBID DISLIKE OF MALES |
| ANORCHISM | ABSENCE OF TESTES |
| ASPERMIA | INABILITY TO SECRETE SPERM |
| BALANITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GLANS PENIS |
| CRYPTORCHIDISM | FAILURE OF TESTES TO DROP INTO THE SCROTUM |
| HEMATOSPERMIA | BLOOD IN SEMEN |
| PROSTATALGIA | PAINFUL PROSTATE |
| PROSTATITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE PROSTATE |
| TESTALGIA | PAINFUL TESTES |
| VARICOCELE | ENLARGED SWOLLEN VEIN NEAR THE TESTIS |
| VASECTOMY | REMOVAL OF A SEGMENT OF THE VAS DEFERENS |
| APNEA | TEMPORARY FAILURE TO BREATHE |
| BRADYPNEA | SLOW BREATHING |
| BRONCHITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BRONCHIAL MEMBRANES |
| CYANOSIS | ABNORMAL BLUE SKIN COLOR FROM LACK OF OXYGEN IN THE BLOOD |
| DYSPNEA | LABORED BREATHING |
| EMPHYSEMA | OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE |
| HYPERCAPNIA | EXCESSIVE CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE BLOOD |
| LARYNGITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE LARYNX |
| PECTORALGIA | CHEST PAIN |
| PNEUMONIA | BACTERIAL INFECTION OF THE LUNGS |
| PULMONARY | PERTAINING TO THE LUNGS |
| RESPIRATION | ACT OR PROCESS OF BREATHING |
| RHINITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE NOSE |
| SINUSITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE SINUSES |
| ALBUMINURIA | PROTEIN IN THE URINE |
| ANURESIS | INABILITY TO URINATE |
| ANURIA | INABILITY TO PRODUCE URINE |
| CYSTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER |
| DIALYSIS | METHOD OF FILTERING IMPURITIES FROM THE BLOOD |
| DYSURIA | PAINFUL URINATION |
| ENURESIS | INVOLUNTARY URINATION |
| GLYCOSURIA | GLUCOSE IN THE URINE |
| HEMATURIA | BLOOD IN THE URINE |
| KETOURIA | KETONE BODIES IN THE URINE |
| LITHIASIS | FORMATION OF ANY STONE |
| NEPHRALGIA | KIDNEY PAIN |
| NEPHRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEY |
| POLYURIA | EXCESSIVE URINATION |
| ANACUSIS | WITHOUT HEARING; DEAFNESS |
| AUDIOMETRY | PROCESS OF MEASURING HEARING |
| CERUMINOSIS | EXCESSIVE EARWAX |
| LABYRINTHITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE INNER EAR |
| OTALGIA | PAIN IN THE EAR (EARACHE) |
| OTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE EAR |
| OTOMYCOSIS | FUNGAL EAR INFECTION |
| OTOPLASTY | PLASTIC SURGERY ON THE EAR |
| OTORRHAGIA | BLEEDING OF THE EAR |
| OTOSCLEROSIS | ABNORMAL HARDENING OF BONE IN THE MIDDLE EAR |
| OTOSCOPE | INSTRUMENT FOR EXAMINING THE EAR |
| PARACUSIS | PARTIAL HEARING LOSS |
| TYMPANITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE EARDRUM |
| AMBLYOPIA | REDUCTION IN VISION |
| ASTIGMATISM | DISTORTED VISION |
| BLEPHARITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE EYELIDS |
| BLEPHAROPTOSIS | ABNORMAL DROOPING OF THE UPPER EYELIDS |
| CONJUNCTIVITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA |
| DIPLOPIA | DOUBLE VISION |
| ENDOPHTHALMITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE INSIDE OF THE EYE |
| ESOTROPIA | EYE TURNING INWARD TOWARD THE NOSE |
| EXOTROPIA | EYE TURNING OUTWARD AWAY FROM THE NOSE |
| GLAUCOMA | EYE DISEASE CAUSED BY INCREASED INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE |
| HYPEROPIA | FARSIGHTEDNESS; DIFFICULTY SEEING CLOSE OBJECTS |
| IRIDOPLEGIA | PARALYSIS OF THE IRIS |
| OCULOMYCOSIS | FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE EYE |
| RETINITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE RETINA |