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Med Language Ch. 17
Turley - Psychiatry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psych/o- | mind |
| -iatry | medical treatment |
| affect | outward display on a person's face |
| mood | prevailing, predominant emotion someone is experiencing |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | constant, persistent, uncontrollable thoughts which compel the patient to perform repetitive, excessive, and meaningless activities |
| generalized anxiety disorder | dwelling on issues that involve "what if...?" and predicting or fearing the worst |
| panic disorder | sudden attack of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an identifiable cause (may be mistaken for a heart attack or choking) |
| phobia | intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| agoraphobia | fear of crowds or public places |
| arachnophobia | fear of spiders |
| claustrophobia | fear of closed in places |
| microphobia | fear of germs |
| ophidiophobia | fear of snakes |
| xenophobia | fear of strangers |
| thanatophobia | fear of death |
| thanat/o- | death |
| post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic event (i.e. war, terrorist attack, torture, rape, kidnapping, etc.) |
| anorexia nervosa | extreme, chronic fear of being fat and an obsession to become thinner |
| bulimia | patients gorge themselves on food (binge eating) then, for fear of gaining weight, induce vomiting or overuse laxatives |
| bipolar disorder | manic-depressive disorder; chronic mood swings between mania (limitless energy and exteme happiness) and depression |
| euphoria | extreme happiness |
| schizophrenia | most common type of psychosis where there is a chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life |
| phre/o- | diaphragm; mind |
| schiz/o- | split |
| hallucinations | false impressions of vision, smell, sound, taste or touch |
| catatonia | stupor |
| hebephrenia | childish, silly behaviour |
| catalepsy | extremities stay fixed in whatever position they are placed. |
| autism | inability to communicate or form meaningful relationships with others |
| ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity) disorder | distractability, short attention span, inability to follow directions, restlessness, hyperactivity, emotional lability, and impulsivenss |
| Tourette's syndrome | frequent, spontaneous, involuntary muscle tics, vocal tics, or comments that are socially inappropriate |
| amnesia | parial or totalloss of long term memory due to trauma or disease of the hippocampus |
| delirium | acute confusion, disorientation and agitation due to toxic levels of body chemicals, drugs oar alcohol in the blood that affect the brain |
| dementia | gradual but progresssive deterioration of cognitive function due to old age or a neurologic disease |
| trichotillomania | repetitive pulling out of hari from the head |
| trich/o- | hair |
| till/o- | pull out |
| ETOH | ethyl alcohol (liquor) |
Created by:
mhood@harpercollege.edu
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