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A&P Med Term 3
Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Afebrile | Pertaining to without fever |
| Anicteric | Pertaining to without jaundice (yellowish discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, mucous membranes, and body fluids) |
| Arrest | To stop, inhibit, restrain; a condition of being stopped, such as occurs in cardiac arrest when cardiac output and effective circulation stop |
| Bifurcate | Having two forks or two branches or two divisions; forked |
| Binary | Pertaining to separating into two branches or composed of two elements |
| Concentration | Process in psychology of being able to bring to the center one thought and focus on it, while excluding other thoughts |
| Decompensation | Failure of a system; in cardiology_failure of the heart to maintain adequate circulation; in psychology_failure of the defense mechanism system that may occur during a relapsing of a mental condition |
| Enucleate | Literally means to remove the kernel of; used to describe the removal of the eyeball surgically or to remove a cataract surgically; also means to remove a part or a mass in its entirety |
| Extraocular | Pertaining to outside the eye, as used in describing the extraocular eye muscles that control eye movement and eye coordination |
| Hyperactive | Nature or quality of excessive activity; can refer to the entire organism or to a particular entity such as the thyroid, heart, or muscles; also describes an individual who exhibits constant overactivity |
| Hypoplasia | Underdevelopment of a tissue, organ, or body |
| Insomnia | Condition of not being able to sleep |
| Intermediary | Pertaining to situated between two bodies or occurring between two periods of time |
| Latent | Lying hidden; quiet; not active |
| Lumen | Space within an artery, vein, intestine, or tube; also the hollow core of a hypodermic needle, which forms an oval-shaped opening when exposed at the beveled (flat, slanted surface) point |
| Multifocal | Pertaining to or arising from many locations |
| Occlusion | Process of closing or state of being closed of a passage |
| Parasternal | Pertaining to beside the sternum (breastbone) |
| Patent | Wide open; freely open |
| Pericardial | Pertaining to the pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) |
| Polydactyly | Pertaining to having more than the normal number of fingers and toes |
| Premenstrual | Pertaining to the time before the discharge of the menses |
| React | Literally means to act again; to respond to stimuli; to participate in a chemical reaction |
| Regurgitation | Process of a backward flow of solids or foods from the stomach to the mouth or the backflow of blood through a defective heart valve |
| Sign | Any objective evidence of an illness or disordered function of the body that can be seen, heard, measured, or felt by the examiner |
| Subacute | Literally means below sharp; describes a state between acute and chronic with some acute features; used to describe the course of a disease process or the healing process following tissue injury |
| Superinfection | New infection caused by a different organism from one that caused the initial infection; can occur from a harmful effect of an antibiotic, when there is an overgrowth of a resistant strain of bacteria, fungi, or yeast |
| Symptom | Any perceptible change in the function of the body that indicates disease; can be classified as objective (signs), subjective (symptoms described by the patient), and cardinal (vital signs: temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure) |
| Unconscious | Pertaining to not being aware; lacking awareness of one’s environment |
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