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Chapter 7
HCP 101
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ARRHYTHMIA | IS A CONDITION WITHOUT UNRINE |
| ANTENATAL OR PRENATAL VITAMINS | ARE TAKEN BEFORE THE BABY IS BORN PROPHYLACTIC MEDICATIONS ARE USED BEFORE A DISAEASE MIGHT OCCUR |
| ANTICOAGULANTS | ARE CHEMICALS THAT WORK AGAINST THE BLOOD'S CLOTTING ABILITY. MANY MEDICATIONS ARE CONTRAINDICTED WHEN USING OTHER MEDICATIONS, MEANING THAT THEY ARE AGAINST BEING USED TO GETHER |
| BILATERAL | PERTAINING TWO SIDES", DIPLOCOCCI ARE BACTERIAL APPEARING IN PAIRS (TWOS) |
| BRADYCARDIA | IS A CONDITIN OF SLOW HEART (RATE) |
| CIRCUMFERENCE | IS THE MEASUREMENT AROUND AN OBJECT |
| DEHYDRATION | IS THE PROCESS OF TAKING WATER AWAY FROM THE BODY |
| DIATHERMY | IS A TREATMENT MODALITY OF PASSING HEAT THROUGH THE SKIN TO THE UNDERLYING TISSUES. TRANSCUTANEOUS MEDICATIONS ARE ABOSRBED THROUGH THE SKIN |
| DYSURIA | IS A CONDITION OF PAINFUL URINATION |
| ECTOPIC | PREGNACIES OCCUR WHEN THE OVUM BECOMES FERTILIZED OUSIDE THE UTERUS. |
| ENDOSCOPIES | ARE PROCEDURES IN WHICH AN INSTRUMENT IS PLACED WITHIN THE BODY FOR VIEWING STRUCTURES |
| EPIDERMIS | IS THE OUTERMOST LAYER OF SKIN OVER THE DERMIS |
| EUTHROID | INDICATES THAT THYROID FUNCTION IS NORMAL |
| EXOPHTHALMOS | IS AN ABNORMAL CONDITION OF THE EYE BALLS IN WHICH THEY APPEAR TO BE OUT OF THE SOCKETS, EXOSKELETON IS A SKELETON ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY, AND EXTRACURRICULAR REFERS TO ACTIVITES OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM. |
| HEMIPLEGIA | IS A PARALYSISI OCCURING ON ONE SIDE OF THE BODY; SEMICONSCIOUS IS BEING HALF CONSCIOUS AND HALF UNCONSCIOUS. |
| HYPERHERMIA | IS AN ABMORAL BODY TEMPATURE ABOVE NORMAL; POLYURIA IS A CONDITION OF EXCESSIVE URNIATION; OFTEN OCCURRING IN DIABETIC PATIENTS. |
| HYPODERMIC | INJECTIONS ARE ADMINISTERED BELOW THE DERMIS OF THE SKIN. SUBSTERNAL CHEST PAIN WOULD BE UNDERNEATH THE BREASTBONE OF THE RIB CAGE. |
| INTERCOSTAL | SPACES ARE LOCATED BETWEEN TH RIBS. |
| INTRACELLAR | FLUID IS THE FLUID FOUND WITHIN THE CELLS. |
| ISTONIC | SALINE HAS THE SAME PH AS BLOOD. |
| MALABSORBTION | OCCURS WHEN THE BODY HAS BAD OR INADEQUATE ABSORPTION THROUGH THE CASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. |
| MEGALOCYTES | ARE LAGE CELLS |
| MICROSCOPE | IS AN INSTRUMENT USED FOR VIEWING TINY THINGS |
| MONOCYTE | IS A CELL THAT CONTAINS ONLY ONE NUCLEUS |
| MULTIPARA | INDICATES THAT A WOMAN HAS AHAD MORE THAN ONE PREGNANCY (MANY PREGNANCIES). |
| OLIGURIA | IS A CONDITION IN WHICH SCANTY URINE IS PRODUCED. |
| PANCTOPENIA | IS AN ABNORMAL DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ALL CELLS |
| PERIANAL | PERTAINS TO THE AREAS AROUND THE ANUS |
| POSTMORTEM | IS AFTER DEATH. |
| QUADRANTS | ARE IMAGINARY DICISIONS OF FOUR SECTIONS; QUADRIPLEGIA IS THE PARALYSIS OF ALL FOUR EXTREMETIES. |
| REPRODUCE | IS TO PRODUCE AGAIN. |
| SUPERMAN | HAS POWERS ABOVE THE NORMAL MORAL MAN; SUPRAPBIC IS THE AREA IMMEDIATELY ABOVE THE PUBIS |
| TACHYCARDIA | IS A CONDITION OF AN ABNORMALLY FAST HEARTBEAT. |
| ULTRASOUND | IS A RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE THAT GOES BEYOND THE SPEED OF SOUND. |
| UNILATERAL | PERTAINS TO ONE SIDE ONLY. |
| VERTICULAR | PERTAINS TO THE VENTRICLES. |
| CAUDAD | IS TOWARD THE TAIL. |
| ARTHRALGIA | IS PAIN IN THE JOINT(S). CEPHALODYNIA IS PAIN IN THE HEAD OR A HEADACHE. |
| AMYLASE | IS AN ENZYME THAT BREAKS DOWN STARCHES. |
| MYASTHENIA | IS GRAT MUSCLE WEAKNESS. |
| ERTHROBLASTS | ARE IMMATURE RED BLOOD CELLS MOST OFTEN FOUND IN THE BONE MARROW |
| RECTOCELE | IS AN ABNORMAL PROTRUSION OFROM THE RECTUM |
| BACTERIOCDIAL | SOLUTIONS KILL BACTERIA. |
| ENDOCRINE SYSTEM | SECRETES HORMONES |
| LEUKOCYTE | IS A WHILE BLOOD CELL |
| SCLEDOREMA | IS "HARD" SKIN. |
| BRONCHIECTASIS | IS A LUNG CONDITION IN WHICH THE BRONCHIOLES ARE STRETCHED OUT PERMANETLY. |
| HYSTERECTOMY | IS THE REMOVAL OF THE UTERUS. |
| LYMPHEDEMA | IS FLUID ACCUMULATION AND SWELLING WHEN THE LYMPH NODES CANNOT CIRCULATE LYMPH BACK THROUGH THE CASCULAR SYSTEM, USUALLY DUE TO AN OBSTRUCTION. |
| ERTHEMA | IS A CONDITION WITH REDNESS; HYPERTHYROIDISM IS A CONDITION OF ABOVE-NORMAL THYROID FUCTION; CADIDASIS IS A CONDTION OF A YEAST INFECTION; HIDROSIS IS A CONDITION OF ABNORMAL SWEATING. NARCOLEPSY IS AN ABNORAL CONDITION OF SLEEP. |
| HYPEREMESIS | IS EXCESSIVE VOMITTING. |
| ANEMIA | IS A CONDITION OF LOW (NO) BLOOD. |
| ANETHESIA | PRODUCES A LACK OF FEELING OR SENSATION |
| CARCINOGEN | IS SOMETHING THAT PRODUCES CANCER, CARCINOGENESIS IS THE FORMATION OF CANCER AND CARCINOGENIC IS A SUBSTANCE CAPALE OF PRODUCING CANCER. |
| HEOGLOBIN | IS THE PROTEIN IN RED BLOOD CELLS THAT TRANSPORTS OXYGEN; AN IMMUNOGLOBULIN IS A PROTEIN THAT HELPS PROTECT US AGAINST INFECTION. |
| ELECTROCARDIOGRAM | IS A RECORDING OF THE HEART. |
| ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH | IS THE INSTRUMENT USED TO MAKE AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM |
| ELECTROCARDIORAPHY | IS THE PROCESS OF THE RECORDING THE HEART'S BEAT. |
| GASTRISTIS | IS INFLAMATTION FO THE STOMACH. |
| DYSKINESIA | IS PAINFUL MOVEMENT OF THE BODY |
| CARDIOLOGIST | IS ONE WHO STUDIES THE HEART. |
| CARDIOLOGY | IS THE STUDY OF THE HEART, |
| HEMOLYSIS | OCCURS WHEN RED BLOOD CELLS ARE DESTROYED |
| NEPHROMALACIA | IS A CONDITION OCCURRING WHEN THE KIDNEYS OFTEN |
| PYROMANIA | IS AN ABNORMAL OBSESSION WITH FIRE, AND A PYROMANIAC IS A PERSON WITH THIS PREOCCUPATION. |
| ACROMEGALY | IS ENGLARGEMENT OF THE EXTREMETIES |
| SPIROMETER | MEASURES THE AMOUNT OF AIR INHALED AND EXHAULED THROUGH THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. PELVIMETRY IS THE PROCESS OF MEASURING A PREGNAUNT WOMAN'S PELVIS |
| OSTEOID | IS A RESEMBLING BONE |
| LIMPOMA | IS A FATTY TUMOR |
| DIPLOPIA | IS DOUBLE VISION |
| LACTOSE | IS THE SUGAR FOUND IN MILK |
| GASTROSTOMY | IS A NEW OPENING IN THE STOMACH TO PROVIDE NUTRIENTS TO PATIENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO SWALLOW |
| UNIPARA | REFERS TO A WOMAN WHO HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO ONE CHILD |
| LYMPHADENOPATHY | IS A DISESE OF THE LYMPH GLANDS |
| THROMBOCYTOPENIA | IS A DEFICIENCY OF CLOTTING CELLS (PLATELETS |
| EUPESIA | IS NORMAL DIGESTION |
| MASTOPEXY | IS SURGICAL FIXATION OF THE BREAST |
| MACROPHAGES | ARE LARGE CELLS THAT INGEST FOREIGN MATTER. DYSPHAGIA IS DIFFICULT OR PAINFUL DIGESTION |
| DYSPHASIA | IS DIFFICULT SPEAKING, AS IN LARYNGITIS |
| EOSINOPHIL | LOVES THE RED DYE FOUND IN WRITGHT'S AND GIMSA'S STAINS. NECROPHOBIA |
| NECROPHOBIA | IS AN ABNORMAL FEAR OF DEATH |
| APHONIA | IS LACK OF SOUND (OR NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR SOUND). |
| SCHIZOPHRENIA | IS SPLIT PERSONALITY; THE PHENIC NERVE STIMULATES THE DIAPHRAM |
| RHINOPLASTY | IS SURGICAL REAPIR OF ONE'S NOSE. |
| QUADRIPLEGIA | IS PARALYSIS OF FOUR LIMBS; A QUADRIPLEGIC IS A PERSON WHO HAS THIS CONDITION |
| DYSPNEA | IS DIFFICULT BREATHING |
| HEMATOPOIESIS | IS THE FORMATION OF BLOOD. |
| BLEPHAROPTOSIS | IS A DROPPING EYELID |
| HEMORRAHAGE | IS A HEAVY DISCHARGE OF BLOOD. |
| CARDIORRHAPHY | IS A SURTURING OF THE HEART. |
| DIARRHEA | IS FLOWING OF FECES THROUGH THE ANUS |
| CARDIORRHEXIS | IS A RUPTURE OF THE HEARTMICROSCOPES ARE INSTRUMENTS USED TO VIEW TINY OBJECTS; MICROSCOPY IS THE PROCESS OF EXAMINING THE TINY OBJECTS. |
| POLYSOMNIA | IS MUCH SLEEP |
| HOMEOSTASIS | IS THE PROCESS OF STOPPING PROCESSES IN THE BODY TO MAINTAIN AN EQUILIBRIUM. |
| ESOPHAGOSTENOSIS | IS THE NARROWING OF THE ESOPHAGUS |
| GASTROSTOMY | IS MAKING A NEW OPENENING IN THE STOMACH |
| GASTROTOME | IS AN INSTRUMENT USED FOR CUTTING THE INTO THE STOMACH |
| NEPHROTOMY | IS THE PROCESS OF CUTTING INTO A KIDNEY |
| ATROPHIC | PERTAINS TO A LACK OF NUTRITION, COMMONLY FOUND IN LIMBS THAT HAVE BEEN BOUND BY CASTS. |
| DYSURIA | IS PAINFUL OR DIFFICULT URINATION |
| CARDIOVERSION | IS TURNING OR CONVERTING THE HEART TO A NORMAL RHYTHM |
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