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Medical terms
week 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ABATEMENT | a reduction in severity of symptoms |
| ABIOTIC | not related to living organisms |
| ABORTIVE | cutting short the course of a disease |
| ABRASION | friction wearing away of the top layer of skin |
| ABRUPTION | a sudden breaking away or breaking off |
| ACCESSORY | extra or supplimentary to the main event |
| AMBULATORY | ability to walk |
| ANALGESIA | loss of pain where pain would normally be evident without loss of consciousness |
| BENIGN | an abnormal growth that is not life-threatening |
| CAvITY | hollow space in the body containing on organ or more |
| COMPRESSION | to apply pressure to stop bleeding or prevent further injury |
| ETIOLOGY | the cause of a certain condition |
| EXACERBATION | deterioration of a condition |
| HEMATEMESIS | blood in vomit |
| IATROGENIC | a conditio that appears as a result of treatment of another condition |
| IDIOPATHIC | of unknown cause |
| INTRACTABLE | difficult to cure or alleviate |
| REFERRED PAIN | pain that is felt in another area to the original source of this pain |
| REFLUX | going in a backward direction |
| REMISSION | disappearance of signs of disease |
| STIMULUS | elicits a physiological response |
| SUBCUTANEOUSA | JUST BENEATH THE SKIN |
| SYNDROME | a set of symptoms that indicate towards a certain condition, disease or abnormality |