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Assignment Sheet 6
CTTC - Challenging/Confusing words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |