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med terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Objective | signs, laboratory findings, or both, from a medical source. |
| Subjective | What the patient says |
| Systemic | In your system |
| Assessment | Combination of subjective and objective information |
| Pericardium | tissue around the heart |
| Superior | Above, on top of |
| Inferior | Below |
| Lateral | To the side of |
| Distal | Away from/down |
| Proximal | Towards or near |
| Anterior or ventral | Front |
| Posterior or dorsal | back |
| Localized | disease that is limited to a certain part of the body. |
| Chief complaint | The main reason for the patient’s visit |
| Pathology | study of disease |
| Epiphyses | ends of bones |
| Diaphysis | middle of bone; shaft |
| Metaphysis | neck; connects the diaphysis with the epiphysis |
| Axial | Center |
| Appendicular | arms and legs |
| Postictal | time after a seizure |
| Tonic-clonic seizure | a seizure characterized by both a tonic and a clonic phase |
| Dystonia | condition characterized by involuntary muscle movements |
| Hydrocephaly | abnormal accumulation of spinal fluid in the brain |
| Effusion | fluid buildup |
| Bursolith | a stone in a bursa |
| Cardiologist | Physician Specializing in the heart |
| Adenocarcinoma | cancerous tumor of a gland |
| Splenodynia | Spleen pain |
| Autoimmune disease | disease caused by the body’s immune system attacking the body’s own healthy tissue. |
| Thrombus | blood clot. |
| parathyroidectomy | removal of the parathyroid |
| thyroidectomy | removal of the thyroid |
| pancreatolithectomy | removal of a stone in the pancreas |
| pancreatic pseudocyst | abnormally expanded area in the pancreas resembling a cyst |
| atherogenesis | formation of fatty plaque on the wall of an arter |
| venosclerosis | hardening of a vein |
| venospasm | involuntary contraction of a vein |
| electrocardiography | procedure for recording the electrical currents of the heart |
| sonography | use of sound waves to produce diagnostic images; also called ultrasound |
| asplenia | absence of a spleen or of spleen function |
| hepatosplenomegaly | enlargement of the liver and spleen |
| stress electrocardiogram | records electrical signals of the heart while the patient experiences increases of exercise stress |
| transesophageal echocardiogram | record of the heart using sound waves performed by inserting the transducer into the esophagus |
| vascular endoscopy | procedure to look inside a blood vesse |
| aortectasia | dilation of the aorta |
| aortic stenosis | narrowing of the aorta |
| thrombus | blood clot |
| varicose veins | an enlarged, dilated vein toward the surface of the skin |
| vascular endoscopy | procedure to look inside a blood vessel |
| heart muscle tissue | |
| pericardium | tissue around the heart |
| murmur | abnormal heart sound |
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