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Medical Terms O2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abdomin/o- | Abdomen |
| Angi/o- | Blodd or lymph vessel |
| Appen/o- | Apprendix |
| Arteri/o- | artery |
| arthr/o- | joint |
| col/o- | colon, large intestine |
| cyan/o- | blue |
| dermart/o- | skin |
| erythr/o- | red |
| gastr/o- | stomach belly |
| hepat/o- | liver |
| muscul/o- | muscle |
| my/o- | muscle |
| nat/o- | birth |
| neur/o- | neither, neutal |
| ot/o- | ear hearing |
| rhin/o- | nose |
| path/o- | disease, suffering, feeling emotion. |
| tonsil/o- | tonsil, throat |
| vir/o- | poison, virus |
| dys | bad, difficult, painful |
| hyper | excessive, increased |
| hypo | deficient, decreased |
| algia | pain, painful condition |
| ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out excesion |
| it is | inflamation |
| osis | abnornal condition disease |
| ostomy | surgically creating an opening |
| otomy | cutting surgical incision |
| plasty | surgical repair |
| rrhage | bleeding, abnormalexcessive fluid discharge |
| rrhagia | same as rrhage |
| rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| rrhea | flow & discharge |
| rrhexis | rupture |
| sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
| abdominocentesis | surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity |
| acronym | an acrostic |
| acute | (of disease) brief & severe (opposed to chronis) |
| angiography | x-ray examination of blood vessels by injecting them into them a substance |
| appendectomy | surgical removal of any apendage esp, the verniform apprendix |
| arterioscierosis | pathological condition of the dictionary of the circulatory system |
| aethealigia | pain in the joint |
| colostomy | insion into the colon |
| cyanosis | pathol a bluish-purple discoloration of skin & mucous membranes usually resulting from defiency of oxegen in the blood |
| dermatologist | branch of medine concerned with the skin & a disease |
| diagmosis | identification of disease by the examination of symptoms & signs & by other investigation. |
| diarrhea | frequent & copisious discharge of abnormally liquid faeces |
| edema | excessiveaccumulation of seros fluid in the intercellular spaces of tissue |
| endarterial | see the arditery |
| eponym | back formation from eponymous |
| erythrocyte | the red blood cells |
| fissure | a grove or crack like sore of the skin |
| fistula | abnormal passage usually betwwen 2 internal organs or leading from an open organto the surface of the body |
| gastralia | stomach pain |
| gatritis | inflamation of the stomach |
| gastroenteritis | anflamation of the stomach & intestines |
| gastrosis | any disease on the stomach |
| hemorrhage | a profuse discharge of blood as form a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding |
| hepatomegaly | abnormal enlargement of the liver usually associated with liver disease & heart failure |
| hypertension | elavation of blood preassure especially the diastolic preassure |
| hypotension | decreased or lowered blood preassure |
| infection | the condition of suffering an infection |
| inflammation | redness, swelling, pain , tendernessheat & disturbed function of an area of the body. espeacially as a reaction of tiisues to injuriod agents |
| intersitial | between but not within the parts of the tissue |
| intramuscular | located or occuring within a muscle |
| laceration | rough jagged tear |
| lession | an injury; hurt, wound |
| mycosis | the presence of parasitic fungi in or any part of the body |
| myelopathy | any disorder of the spinal cord or of the bone narrow |
| myopathy | any annormality or disease of muscle tissue |
| myorrhexis | tearing a muscle |
| natal | pertaining to a person's birth |
| neonatology | study of the development & disorders of newborn children |
| neutritis | inflamation of a nerves |
| otorhinolaryngology | study of ears & larynx or throat |
| palpation | exmine touch especially for the purpose of diagnosing tools |
| palpitation | an usally or abnormaly rapid or violent beating of the heart |
| pathology | condition & processes of a disease |
| phalanges | plural of phalanx |
| poliomyelitis | viral disease usually affectin children |
| progonsis | FORECAST OR PRONOSTICATION |
| prostate | portaining to the prostate gland |
| pyoderma | any skin eruption charactherized by pustules or the formation of pus. |
| pyrosis | heart burn |
| remission | abatement or diminution as of diligence labor intensity, etc |
| sign | a token indication |
| supination | matter produced by suppuration; pus |
| supracostal | located above the ribs |
| symptom | a sign or indication of something |
| syndrome | group related or concident thing events actions etc |
| tonsillitis | inflamation or a tonsil or the tonsills |
| trauma | body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury as from violence or accident |
| triage | determination of priority for action in an emergency |
| viral | pertaining to or cause by a virus |