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MMT Ch 13
Medical Terminology Mental and Behavioral HealthWGU
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (MR) Mental Retardation | Condition of subaverage intellectual ability, with impairments in social and educational functioning |
| -ia | condition |
| -iatrist | one who specializes in treatment |
| -ism | condition |
| -ism | process, condition |
| -lalia | condition of babbling |
| -mania | condition of madness |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -phobia | condition of fear |
| -thymia | condition of the mind |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A condition mainly in children demonstrated by hyperactivity, and inability to concentrate, and impulsive behavior. |
| agoraphobia | fear of crowds |
| akathisia | Inability to remain calm, still, and free of anxiety |
| ambul/o | walking |
| amnesia | inability to remember information (typically, all events within a specific period), usually due to physiological trauma |
| anthropophobia | social phobia |
| anxiety | Uneasiness; a feeling of impending doom |
| APA | American Psychiatric Association |
| Asperger disorder | impairment in social interaction. |
| autism | a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind |
| blunted affect | moderately reduced range of affect |
| BP | bipolar disorder: swings between hypomania and mania and activity |
| catatonia | paralysis or immobility from psychological or emotional rather than physical causes |
| claustrophobia | fear of enclosed spaces |
| confabulation | act of filling in memory gaps |
| cyclothamia | swings that are not as severe as bipolar disorder |
| defense mechanism | An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality examples are denial and projection |
| delirium tremens (DTs) | a disorder involving sudden and severe mental changes or seizures caused by abruptly stopping the use of alcohol |
| delirium | confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by distorted speech and hallucinations, incoherence, illusions, and fear |
| delusion | false personal belief that is maintained despite obvious proof or evidence to the contrary |
| delusion | persistant belief in an untruth |
| dementia | a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory, thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes |
| dependence syndrome | difficulty in controlling use of a drug |
| DSM | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
| dysphoria | a restless, dissatisfied mood characterized by depression |
| dysthymia | mild, chronic depression |
| echo- | reverberating sound |
| echolalia | repetition of words or phrases spoken by others |
| eu- | good, well |
| euphoria | feeling of complete well-being, great happiness, bliss |
| euthymia | normal range of moods and emotions |
| flat affect | the diminishment or loss of emotional expression sometimes observed in schizophrenia, mental retardation, and some depressive disorders |
| full/wide range of affect | generally appropriate emotional response |
| GAD | generalized anxiety disorder |
| hallucination | any unreal sensory perception based on a real stimulus: examples include mirages and interpreting music or wind voices |
| hypomania | inappropriate elevation of mood |
| iatr/o | treatment |
| illusion | (n) a false idea; something that one seems to see or to be aware of that really does not exist |
| illusion | inaccurate sensory perception based on a real stimulus |
| labile affect | multiple, abrupt changes in affect seen in certain types of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder |
| libido | an insistent, instinctual force that is unresponsive to the demands of reality; the primary source of motivation |
| OCD | obsessive compulsive disorder |
| ODD | Oppositional defiant disorder, an example of a conduct disorder, characterized by hostile, disobdient behavior |
| PD | panic disorder |
| phil/o | attraction |
| phor/o | to carry, to bear |
| psych/o, thym/o, phren/o | mind |
| psychosis | loss of contact with reality, most often evidenced as delusions or hallucinations. |
| PTSD | posttraumatic stress disorder |
| Rett disorder | condition characterized by initial normal functioning followed by loss of social and intellectual functioning |
| somn/o | sleep |
| somnambulism | sleepwalking |
| stupor | dulled state of mind or senses |
| tolerence | a capacity for enduring a large amount of substance without adverse effects. |
| Tourette Syndrome | involuntary, spasmodic, twitching movements; uncontrollable vocal sounds; and inappropriate words |
| toxic/o | poison |
| withdrawal state | group of symptoms that occurs during the cessation of the use of a regularly taken drug |
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