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Lesson 10
Medical Terminology Unit 10 Dean Vaughn Lesson 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mechano | machine |
| dynam | power |
| osmo | odor |
| traumat | wound |
| trich | hair |
| maxill | upper jawbone |
| an, a | without, not |
| phak | lens |
| pre | in front of, before |
| strict | draw tight |
| turbin | shaped like a top |
| ameb | change |
| semi | half |
| neo | new |
| hormone | excite |
| therm | heat |
| syn, sym | together |
| vuls | twitch or pull |
| post | after |
| metr | uterus |
| tegument | covering, skin |
| pan | all |
| ramus | branch |
| neuro | nerve |
| BBB | Blood Brain Barrier or Bundle Branch Block |
| ALS | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
| BAL | Blood Alcohol Level |
| CP | Cerebral Palsy |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal Fluid |
| CT | computerized tomography |
| EEG | electroencephalogram |
| HA | head ache |
| ICP | intracranial pressure |
| LOC | Level of consciousness or Loss of consciousness |
| MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
| MVA | motor vehicle accident |
| NEU | neurology |
| PET | position emission tomography |
| PNS | Peripheral Nervous System |
| SAD | Seasonal Affective Disorder |
| TIA | Transient Ischemic Attack |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| A&A | Awake and Alert |
| OCD | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
| MS | Multiple Sclerosis |
| LP | Lumbar Puncture |
| DOA | Dead on Arrival |
| CVA | Cerebrovascular Accident |
| CNS | Central Nervous System |
| Cine, Kino, Kinesi, Kinetic | movement, motion |
| humer/o | humerus |
| hyo | u-shaped |
| Ischio | Ischium; Pelvic Bone |
| fovea | pit or depression |
| desm/o | band or ligament |
| crista | ridge |
| ankyl/o | stiff, crooked, bent |
| amebic | pertaining to, or of the nature of, an ameba |
| amebiasis | infestation with amebas; especially with a variety that is a parasite in the intestines |
| anemia | "lack of blood"; lack of red cells in the blood |
| anesthesia | "lack of feeling"; unconsciousness |
| avitaminosis | "lack of vitamins"; a disease caused by vitamin deficiency |
| atrophy | "lacking development, growth"; a wasting away or decrease in the size of a cell, tissue, organ or part due to a defect of nutrition |
| dynamic | pertaining to or exhibiting force |
| adynamia | lack or loss of normal powers; asthenia |
| myodynamic | relating to muscular force |
| hyperdynamia | excessive muscle activity |
| cardiodynamics | science of the motions and forces involved in the heart's action |
| hormonic | pertaining to or acting as a hormone; having the exciting influence of a hormone |
| hormonotherapy | treatment by the use of hormones |
| hyperhormonal | pertaining to hormone excess |
| hypohormonal | pertaining to hormone deficiency |
| maxilla | a name of the upper jawbone |
| maxillary | pertaining to the maxilla |
| maxillectomy | surgical removal of the maxilla |
| maxillolabial | pertaining to the upper jawbone and the lip |
| mechanotherapy | the use of machines in treatment of disease |
| mechanism | a system or a mental or physical process by which some result is produced |
| labor mechanism | the process involved in the expulsion of the infant and the after birth through the birth canal in labor |
| defense mechanism | any self-protective physiological reaction of an organism |
| metrectasia | dilation of the uterus (non-pregnant) |
| metritis | inflammation of the uterus |
| metralgia | pain in the uterus |
| metrectopia | displacement of the uterus |
| endometritis | inflammation of the mucus membrane lining of the uterus |
| hematometra | an accumulation of blood in the uterus |
| neonatal | newborn |
| neopathy | a new disease |
| neoplasm | any new and abnormal growth sych as a tumor |
| neuron | a nerve cell |
| neural | pertaining to a nerve or the nerves |
| psychoneurosis, neurosis | various psych or mental disturbances |
| dysneuria | impairment of nerve function |
| gastrohyperneuria | excessive activity of the nerves of the stomach |
| perineurium | the connective tissue cover around the nerve fibers |
| osmics | the science that deals with the sense of smell; the study of odors |
| osmatic | pertaining to the sense of smell |
| osmophobia | irrational fear of odors |
| anosmia | absence of the sense of smell |
| hyposmia | abnormally decreased sensitiveness to odor |
| panhysterectomy | the removal by surgery of the whole of the uterus |
| pancarditis | inflammation of the whole heart |
| pantosomatous | pertaining or relating to the whole body |
| pantalgia | pain over the whole body |
| phakitis, phacitis | inflammation of the crystalline lens of the eye |
| phacocele | the displacement of the eye lens from its proper place; hernia of the eye |
| polyacoustic | "much sound"; increasing or intensifying sound |
| polycythemia | excessive number or red corpuscles in the blood |
| polyemia | excessive amount of blood in the body |
| polyadenitis | inflammation of several or many glands |
| polydysplasia | faulty development in several types of tissue or several organs or systems of organs |
| postpneumonia | following pneumonia |
| postoral | situated behind the mouth |
| postnatal | after the occurrence of birth |
| posterior | situated in the back part of, or affecting the back part of an organ |
| posteriad | toward the posterior part of the body |
| posterolateral | situated behind and to one side |
| prerenal | situated in front of the kidney |
| prepartal | occurring before, or just previous, to labor |
| preoperative | preceding an operation |
| precranial | in the front part of the cranium |
| ramitis | inflammation of a root(s) |
| ramose | branching; having many branches |
| semilunar | resembling a crescent or half moon |
| semimalignant | somewhat (partially) malignant |
| seminormal | one-half the normal |
| stricture | the abnormal narrowing of a canal, duct or passage |
| spastic stricture | a stricture due to a muscle spasm |
| stricturotomy | the cutting of suture |
| syndesis | a "binding together"; the fusion of a joint; arthrodesis |
| syndactyly | "finger togetherness"; the most common congenital defect, affecting the hand in which adjacent digits are more or less attached to each other by a membranous web |
| symphysis | a "natural togetherness"; a type of joint in which the connected bones are firmly united such as the joint formed by the various bone parts in the hip |
| synalgia | "pain together"; pain experienced in one place as the result of a soreness or injury in another place |
| integumentary | pertaining to or composed of skin |
| thermal, thermic | pertaining to or characterized by heat |
| diathermy | the generation of heat in the body tissues for medical or surgical purposes, usually by the application of electrical currents |
| hyperthermia | an abnormally high boy temperature; fever |
| traumatology | the study of wounds and injuries |
| traumatogenic | produced or caused due to a wound or injury |
| traumatic | pertaining to, occurring as the result of, or causing trauma |
| trichoesthesia | "hair feeling"; the sense by which one perceives that the hair of the skin is being touched |
| leukotrichia | whiteness of the hair |
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