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Ch 6 Cohen Med Term
Disease
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an illness that is said to be sudden, severe; having a short course? | Acute |
| What type of tumor does not spread? | Benign |
| What is a malignant neoplasm composed of epithelial cells? | Carcinoma |
| What is an illness that is said to be of long duration; progressing slowly? | Chronic |
| What is the definition for an accumulation of fluid in the tissue? | Edema |
| What is a cause of a disease termed? | Etiology |
| What is the definition for a protrusion of an organ through an abnormal opening? | Hernia |
| What is a localized response to tissue injury characterized by heat, pain, redness and swelling? | Inflammation |
| What is the definition for a distinct area of damaged tissue? | Lesion |
| What is a tumor that is growing worse; harmful; tending to cause death that has metastasized (spread)? | Malignant |
| What is the characteristic of a cancer that has spread from one part of the body to another? | Metastasis (adjective - metastasize) |
| What is the definition for death of tissue? | Necrosis |
| What is an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of tissue? | Neoplasm (adjective - neoplasia) |
| What is the definition or an organism that is capable of causing disease? | Pathogen |
| What is the definition for the root path/o? | Disease |
| What is the process of the ingestion of organisms, such as invading bacteria or small particles of waste material by a cell? | Phagocytosis (phag/o - eat) |
| What is a malignant neoplasm arising from connective tissue? | Sarcoma |
| What is the definition for harmful microorganisms or other toxins in the blood or other tissues? | Sepsis (adjective - septic) |
| Analgesia is a condition of having what? | pain |
| What does a carcinoid resemble? | carcinoma |
| What does the root in empyema mean? | pus |
| What does the root in cystic mean? | cysts |
| What does the root in lithiasis mean? | stone |
| What is the definition for the root in oncology? | tumor |
| What is the definition for the root in pathology? | disease |
| What is the definition for the root in antipyretic? | fever |
| What is the definition for the root in sclerosis? | hard |
| What is the definition for the root in intoxicate? | poison |
| What is the definition of the prefix in bradycardia? | slow |
| What is the definition for the prefix in dysplagia? | difficult, painful, abnormal |
| What is the definition for the prefix in malabsorption? | bad, poor |
| What is the definition for the prefix in pachydactyly? | thick |
| What is the definition for the prefix in tachypnea? | rapid |
| What is the definition for the prefix in xeroderma? | dry |
| What is the definition for the suffix in neuralgia? | pain |
| What is the definition for the suffix in gastrocele? | hernia, localized dilation |
| Neuralgia causes what to a nerve? | pain |
| What is the definition for the suffix in karyoclasis? | breaking |
| What is the definition for the suffix in cystitis? | inflammation |
| What is the definition for the suffix in hepatomegaly? | enlargement |
| What is the definition for the suffix in urodynia? | pain |
| What is the definition for the suffix in lipoma? | tumor |
| What is the definition for the suffix in nephropathy? | any disease of |
| What is the definition for the suffix in hemorrhage? | profuse flow, bursting forth |
| What is the definition for the suffix in pyorrhea? | flow, discharge |
| What is the definition for the suffix in amniorrhexis? | rupture |
| What is the definition for the suffix in retinoschisis? | fissure, splitting |
| What is the definition for the suffix in vasodilation? | widening |
| What is the definition for the suffix in gastrectasia? | dilation, dilatation, distention |
| What is the definition for the suffix in cephaledema? | accumulation of fluid, swelling |
| What is the definition for the suffix in dialysis? | separation, loosening, dissolving, destruction |
| What is the definition for the suffix in osteomalacia? | softening |
| What is the definition for the suffix in cardionecrosis? | death of tissue |
| What is the definition for the suffix in blepharoptosis? | dropping, downward, displacement, prolapse |
| What is the definition for the suffix in phlebosclerosis? | hardening |
| What is the definition for the suffix in arteriospasm? | sudden contraction, cramp |
| What is the definition for the suffix in menostasis? | stoppage, suppression |
| What is the definition for the suffix in bronchostenosis? | narrowing, constriction |
| What is the definition for the suffix in nephrotoxin? | poison |
| Staphylococcus is a baterium that forms what? | grapelike clusters |
| Streptobacillus is a baterium that forms what? | twisted chains |
| Bacilluria has what in the urine? | bacillus |
| Bacteriostatic stops the growth of what? | Bacterium |
| What is the definition for the root in mycotic? | fungus, mold |
| What is the definition for the root in viremia? | virus |
| What is the type of infectious disease is capable of being passed from one person to another? | communicable |
| What is a disease that breaks out in a large proportion of a population at a given time? | epidemic |
| What is exacerbation? | Worsening of disease, increase in severity of a disease or it's symptoms. |
| What is iatrogenic? | caused by the effects of treatment |
| What is idiopathic? | Having no known cause. |
| What is the definition of in situ? | localized, noninvasive; said of tumors that do not spread |
| What is the definition of nosocomial? | An infection aquired in a hospital. |
| What is the definition of opportunistic? | Describing an infection that occurs because of a host's poor or altered condition. |
| What is the definition of pandemic? | A disease that is prevalent throughout an entire region or the world. |
| What is remission? | A lessening of disease symptoms. |
| What is septicemia? | Presence of pathogenic bacteria in the blood; blood poisoning. |
| What is systemic? | Pertaining to the whole body. |
| What is an abscess? | A localized collection of pus. |
| What is ascitis? | Accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity. |
| What is cellulitis? | A spreading inflammation of tissue. |
| What is effusion? | Escape of fluid in to a cavity or other body part. |
| What is exudate? | Material that escapes from blood vessels as a result of tissue injury. |
| What is a fissure? | A groove or split. |
| What is a fistula? | An abnormal passage between two organs or from an organ to the surface of the body. |
| What is gangrene? | Death of tissue, usually caused by lack of blood supply. |
| What is hypertrophy? | An increase in size of an organ without increase in the number of cells; may result from an increase in activity, as in muscles. |
| What is induration? | Hardening, an abnormally hard spot or place. |
| What is a polyp? | A tumor attached by a thin stalk. |
| What is purulent? | Forming or containing pus. |
| What is suppuration? | Pus formation |
| What is meaning for the abbreviation CA? | cancer |
| What is meaning for the abbreviation CIS? | Carcinoma in situ |
| What is meaning for the abbreviation FUO? | fever of unknown origin |
| What is meaning for the abbreviation MRSA? | methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus |
| What is meaning for the abbreviation VRSA? | Vancomycin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus |
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