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med terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| angiectomy | surgical removal of a vessel |
| arthritis | inflammation of the joint |
| cardiology | study of the heart |
| hepatitis | inflammation of the liver |
| myalgia | pain of muscle |
| a- | not |
| ab- | away |
| ad- | toward |
| an- | not |
| ante- | before |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| -ar, -ary | pertaining to |
| -cele | hernia |
| acute | it just started recently or is a sharp, severe symptom |
| chronic | it has been going on for a while now |
| exacerbation | it is getting worse |
| abrupt | all of a sudden |
| febrile | to have a fever |
| proximal | closer in to the center |
| distal | farther away from the center |
| lateral | out to the side |
| medial | toward the middle |
| ventral/antral/anterior | the front |
| physician | a skilled health care provider who attended and graduated medical school |
| pediatrician | a physician with special training in caring for children |
| surgeon | a physician qualified to treat patients surgically, that is, by means of operation or invasive procedure |
| anesthesiologist | a physician with special training in pain sedation and pain control |
| physician assistant (PA) | a midlevel health care provider who works under the license of a supervising physician; requires postgraduate training |
| adip/o, lip/o, steat/o | fat |
| cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| pil/o, trich/o | hair |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| squam/o | scale |
| abrasion | scraping away of skin |
| albinism | lack of pigment in skin causing patient to look white |
| dermatalgia | skin pain |
| erythroderma | red skin |
| hypohidrosis | diminished sweating |
| xanthoma | a yellow tumor |
| steatoma | a fatty tumor |
| pachyderma | tough skin |
| onychia | nail condition |
| impetigo | a highly contagious bacterial infection of the skin |
| -physis | growth |
| oste/o | bone |
| crani/o | head, skull |
| spondyl/o | vertebra |
| carp/o | wrist |
| femor/o | thighbone |
| costalgia | rib pain |
| metatarsalgia | pain in the bones of the foot |
| osteodynia | bone pain |
| spondylodynia | vertebra pain |
| tibialgia | pain |
| arthrocentesis | puncture of a joint |
| arthroscope | instrument for looking into a joint |
| arthroscopy | procedure of looking into a joint |
| electromyogram | a record of the electrical activity of a muscle |
| electromyography | procedure for measuring the electrical activity of a muscle |
| SOAP | an acronym that stands for the four general parts of a medical note: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. |
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