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Q&E Medical terms 4
Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Algesi | Sensitivity to pain |
| Ultra | Excessive |
| Tom/o | To cut |
| Therapeut/o | Treatment |
| Ech/o | Sound |
| Pharmaceut/i | Drugs or medicine |
| Son/o | Ech/o |
| Diagnosis | Identification of a disease or condition by a scientific evaluation |
| Pulse | The rhythmic expansion of an artery that occurs as the heart beats |
| Percussion | Tapping the body with the fingertips or fist to evaluate internal organs and to evaluate fluid in a body cavity |
| Respiration rate | Number of breaths per minute |
| Prognosis | Predicted outcome of a disease |
| Auscultation | Listening for sounds within the body to evaluate organs or detect the fetal heart rate with a stethoscope |
| Sign | Objective evidence of a disease |
| Symptom | Itching of the skin |
| Acute | Having a short and relatively severe course |
| Specimen | A small samply or part taken from the body to represent the nature of the whole |
| An example of a sign | Rash |
| Blood pressure | Not strictly a vital sign but is also customarily included as one |
| Palpation | Feeling the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body part with the hands |
| Symptom | Subjective evidence is perceived by the patient as a... |
| Thermometer | An instrument used to measure temperature |
| Blood pressure | The pressure exerted by the circulating blood on the walls of the arteries and veins and on the chambers of the heart |
| Inspection | the examiner's observation and listening to the patient during the physical examination |
| Stethoscope | An instrument consisting of two earpieces connected by means of flexible tubing that is used to hear sounds within the body |
| Radiograph | A commonly used term that means an X-ray image |
| Air | Black or darker area on an X-ray image probably represent this |
| Computed tomography | A diagnostic imaging modality that produces a detailed image of a cross section of tissue similar to what one would see if the body or body part were cut into sections |
| Fluoroscopy | A method of viewing the X-ray image directly in real time |
| Therapeutic | Pertaining to treatment |
| Positron emission | Combining tomography and radioactive substances to produce |
| Tomography | enhanced images |
| Analgesic | A drug that relieves pain |
| Chemotherapy | Treatment of disease by chemical agents |
| Radiation Oncology | Radiotherapy |
| Diagnostic pressure | The lower reading in measuring blood pressure |
| Tomogram | A detailed image of a cross section of tissue similar to what one would see if the body or body part were actually cut into sections |
| Narcotics | Substances that produce insensibility or stupor |
| Contrast imaging | The use or radiopaque materials to make intenal organs visible |
| Fluoroscope | An instrument that projects an X-ray image on a screen during fluoroscopy |
| Radiology | The branch of medicice that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases with x-rays and radioactive substances |
| Neoplasm | May be benign or malignant |
| White | The color in an x-ray image shown for metals, such as lead or steel |
| Radiopaque | Substances that do not permit the passage of x-rays |
| Remission | Disappearance of the characteristics of malignant tissue |
| Antimicrobial | Drugs that destroy or inhibit the growth of microbes |
| Auscultation | Listening for sounds within the body with a stethoscope |
| Pharmacotherapy | Treatment of diseases with drugs or medicines |
| Echogram | Sonogram |
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