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MP- MT 2 - SPELLING
MIDTERM 2 - SPELLING AND FILL IN THE BLANK
Term | Definition |
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ENURESIS | ENUR/O - URINATE - ESIS - CONDITION; PROCESS ("BED WETTING") INVOLUNTARY RELEASE OF URINE IN AN OTHERWISE NORMAL PERSON. |
MELANOCYTES | MELAN/O - BLACK, -CYTES = CELLS (PIGMENT CONTAINING CELLS IN THE EPIDERMIS THAT PRODUCES MELANIN) |
ACETYLCHOLINE | NEUROTRANSMITTER BETWEEN NEURONS OF THE PNS. |
CORPUS CALLOSUM | CONNECTING BAND OF NEURONS BETWEEN THE TWO HEMISPHERES OF THE CEREBRUM THAT ALLOWS THEM TO COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE ACTIVITIES. |
SCOLIOSIS | SCOLI/O - CROOKED OR CURVED, -OSIS - CONDITION, PROCESS (ABNORMAL EXCESSIVE C-SHAPED OR S-SHAPED LATERAL CURVATURE OF THE SPINE |
OSTEOPOROSIS | OSTE/O - BONE, POR/O - PORES, SMALL OPENINGS, -OSIS - CONDITION OR PROCESS (ABNORMAL THINNING OF THE BONE STRUCTURE. CALCIUM AND PHOSPHORUS ARE LOST AND THE BONE BECOMES POROUS OR "OSTEOPOROTIC") |
PATHOLOGICAL FRACTURE | |
OSTEOARTHRITIS | |
ATAXIA | |
CATHETERIZATION |