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final objective
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ergonomics | Study of human safety in the work areas |
| Genome | Complete set of genetic information |
| Osteorrhaphy | surgical suturing or wiring together of a bone |
| Chondroplasty | surgical repair of cartilage |
| Contracture | normal elastic tissue is replaced with fibrous tissue. permanant tightening |
| Radiograph | xray |
| pyromania | deliberate setting of fires |
| Fissure | groove or crack like sore on the skin |
| Transverse plane | divides top & bottom of body |
| ostomy | artifical opening |
| ectomy | surgical removal |
| otomy | surgical incision |
| plasty | surgical repair |
| Tenodesis | surgical suturing of a tendon to a bone |
| Fascioplasty | surgical repair of a fascia |
| Neuritis | inflammation of a nerve |
| frontal lobe | controls motor functions |
| temporal lobe | controls senses, hearing smell and the abililty to create and store new information ( speech) |
| occipital lobe | controls eyesight and vison reflexes |
| Parietal lobe | receives & interpruts nerve impulses from sensory receptors. |
| Caudal | toward lower part of the body |
| cephalic | toward the head |
| rrhagia | bleeding sudden severe bleeding |
| Hepat/o | liver |
| Amyotrophic lateral scleosis ALS Lou Gehrigs Disease | rapidly progressive neurological disease. attacks the neruons that control muscle movement |
| abdominal regions (9) | r & l iliac, hypogastric, r & l lumbar, umbilical, epigastric, l& r hypocondriac |
| Koilonychia | malformation of nail, concaved or spoon shaped |
| anatomic position | standing erect facing forward arms at side palms facing forward |
| alzheimer's disease | progressive degenerationthat affects both memory & reasoning capibilities |
| elevation | ^ upwards |
| depression | lowering of a body part |
| idiopathic | illness without a cause |
| infectious | illness caused by a pathogentic organism, (viruses & bacteria) |
| organic disorder | symptoms caused by detectable physical changes ( chicken pox) |
| functional disorder | no physicological or anatomical causes can be identified |
| Dysthymia | low grade chronic depression |
| hallucination | seeing things that are not there |
| myc/o | fungus |
| bloodborne transmission | contact with containminated blood |
| hyperhidrosis | increased sweating in one area or all over the body |
| prenatal | pretaining to before birth |
| perinatal | time aurrounding birth |
| postnatal | time and events after birth |
| sciatica | causes a burning pain and tingling along the thigh, leg & foot |
| pronation | rotating a limb so it is downward and backward |
| supination | rotating limb forward and upward |
| abduction | movement away from limb away from midline |
| adduction | movement of limb toward the midline |
| mytonia | slow relaxation of muscles are voluntary contracion |
| dystonia | abnormal muscle tone that causes impairment of voluntary muscle movement |
| atonic | lacking normal muslce tone or strength |
| dystaxia | |
| pediculosis capitas | head lice |
| pediculosis corporis | body lice |
| pediculosis pubis | crabs ( lice in the pubic hair) |
| causalgia | painful burning that results in an injury to a sensory nerve |
| rhytidectomy | |
| hirtuism | excess hair on women |
| dura mater | thick outtermost layer membrane |
| pia mater | 3rd layer of meninges closet to the brain, consists of connective tissue that contains a rich blood supply |
| arachnoid membrane | 2nd layer if meninges and is located between the dura and pia mater |
| coma | a deep state of unconsicousness, no response to painful stimuli |
| stupor | unresposive state, where the patient can be briefly around with vigrous attempts |
| lethargic | |
| carpel tunnel | tendons become swollen and inflammed because of overuse |
| foramen | opening in bone where blood vessels nerves and ligaments passs |
| adenoma | benign tumor that resembles glandular tissue or arises in glands |
| patella | knee cap |
| ascending nerve tract | carry nerve impulses toward the brain |
| descending nerve tract | carry nerve impulses away from the brain |
| ganglion | nerve center with clusters of cell bodies outside the CNS |
| plexus | network of intersecting spinal nerves |
| hemiplegia | total paralysis on one side of the body |
| hemiparesis | partial paralysis on one side of the body |
| primary bone cancer | rare maligment tumor that originates in bone |
| nosocomial infection | infection that u catch at a hospital |
| palpitation | racing heart |
| palpation | touch, feel |
| dual xray absortiomerty( DEXA) | measures bone density |
| rrhexis | surigcal repair |
| costochondritis | inflammation of the cartilge in between the ribs |
| spina bifida | congential defect where the spine does not completelyy close and protect the spinal cord |
| pyr/o | fever or fire |
| physiology | study of the functions and structures of the body |
| anatomy | study of the structures of the body |
| acetabulum | hib bone |
| scoliosis | lateral curvature of the spine |
| lordosis sway back | forward curvature of the spine |
| kyphosis humpback | outward curvature of the spine |
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