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Assignment Sheet 6
CTTC - Challenging/Confusing words
Question | Answer |
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Pruritis | noun meaning an itchy skin condition |
Purulent | adjective meaning containing, consisting of, or forming pus |
Radicle | and anatomic word; radicles are the smallest branches |
Retroperitoneal | adverb meaning behind the peritoneum (a direction) |
Reperitonealize | verb meaning to cover again with peritoneum |
Shoddy | inferior good, hastily or poorly done |
Shotty | like shot, lead pellets used in shotguns |
Sulfa | pertaining to the sulfonamides, the sulfa drugs |
Sulfur | brimstone, an element, the symbol for which is S |
Tendon | noun meaning a band of connective tissue |
Tendinous | adjective meaning resembling a tendon |
Tendonitis | noun meaning inflammation of a tendon or tendon |
Tympanites | drumlike distention of the abdomen due to air or gas in the intestine or peritioneal cavity |
Tympanitis | inflammation of the middle ear |
Ureter | tube from kidney to bladder; there is a left and right ureter |
Urethra | tube carrying urine our of the body; one per person |
Vagus | noun meaning the tenth cranial nerve or vagus nerve |
Valgus | adjective meaning bent outward, twisted, deformed |
Vesicle | `little blister or sac |
Vesical | urinary bladder only |
Villus | (pl. villi) noun meaning little protrusion adjective meaning shaggy with with soft hairs |
Villous | adjective meaning shaggy with soft hairs |
Xerosis | dryness |
Cirrhosis | liver disease |