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MedTerm121545
Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| angi/o | blood or lymph vessel |
| append/o | appendix |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arthr/o | joint |
| col/o | colon, large intestine |
| cyan/o | blue |
| dermat/o | skin |
| erythr/o | red |
| gastr/o | stomach, belly |
| hem/o | blood, relating to blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| muscul/o | muscle |
| my/o | muscle |
| nat/o | birth |
| neur/o | nerve, nerve tissue |
| ot/o | ear, hearing |
| rhin/o | nose |
| path/o | disease, suffering, feeling, emotion |
| tonsil/o | tonsil,throat |
| vir/o | poison,virus |
| dys | bad,difficult, or painful |
| hyper | excessive, increased |
| hypo | deficient, decreasedd |
| algia | pain,painful condition |
| ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out, excision |
| itis | inflammation |
| osis | abnormal condition, disease |
| ostomy | surgically creating an opening |
| otomy | cutting, surgical incision |
| plasty | surgical repair |
| rrhage | bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge |
| rrhagia | bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge |
| rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| rrhea | flow or discharge |
| rrhexis | rupture |
| sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
| abdominocentesis | the surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid |
| acronym | word formed from the initial letter of major parts of a compound term |
| acute | severe course and a relatively short duration |
| angiography | process of producing a radi graphic (x-ray) study of the blood vessels after the injection of a contrast medium to make these blood vessels visible |
| appendectomy | surgical removal of the appendix |
| arteriosclerosis | the abnormal hardening of the walls of an artery or arteries |
| arthraligia | pain in a joint or joints |
| colostomy | surgical creation of an artificial excretory opening between the colon and the body surface |
| cyanosis | blue discoloration of the skin caused by a lack of adequate oxygen in the blood |
| dermatologist | a physician who specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the skin |
| diagnosis | the identification of a disease |
| diarrhea | the frequent flow of loose or watery stools |
| edema | describes swelling caused by excessfluid in the body tissues |
| endarterial | means pertaining to the interior orlining of an artery |
| eponym | a disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or described it first |
| erythrocyte | a mature red blood cell |
| fissure | a groove or crack-like sore of the skin/normal folds in the contours of the brain |
| fistula | abnormal passage, usually between two internalorgans, or leading from an organ to the surface of the body |
| gastralgia | stomach ache,pain in the stomach |
| gatritis | inflammation of the stomach |
| gastroenteritis | an inflammation of the stomach and small intestine |
| gastrosis | means any disease of the stomach |
| hemorrhage | loss of a large amount of blood in a short time |
| hepatomegaly | abnormal enlargement of the liver |
| hypertension | higher than normal blood pressure |
| hypotension | lower than normal blood pressure |
| infection | invasion of the body by a pathogenic (disease producing) organism |
| inflammation | a localized response to an injury or destruction of tissues |
| interstitial | means between, but not within, the parts of a tissue |
| intramuscular | means within the muscle |
| laceration | is a torn or jagged wound or an accidental cut wound |
| lesion | is a pathologic change of the tissues due to disease or injury |
| mycosis | describes any abnormal condition or disease caused by a fungus |
| myelopathy | describes any pathologic change or disease in the spinal cord |
| myopathy | describes any pathologic change or disease of muscle tissue |
| myorrhexis | is the rupture of a muscle |
| natal | means pertaining to birth |
| neonatology | is the study of disorders of the newborn |
| neuritis | is inflammation of a nerve or nerves |
| otorhinolaryngology | made up of 2 combining forms, a word root, and a suffix.(study of the ears, nose, & throat) |
| palpation | is an examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts |
| palpitation | is a pounding or racing heart |
| pathology | is the study of all aspects of diseases |
| phalanges | the bones of the fingers and toes |
| poliomyelitis | is a viral infection of the gray matter of the spinal cord |
| prognosis | is a prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disorder |
| prostate | is a male gland that lies under the urinary bladder and surrounds the urethra |
| pyoderma | is any acute, inflammatory, pus-forming bacterial skin infection such as impetigo |
| pyrosis | also known as heartburn, is discomfort due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus |
| remission | is the temporary, partial, or complete disappearance of the symptoms of a disease without having achieved a cure |
| sign | is objective evidence of disease such as a fever |
| supination | is the act of rotating the arm so that the palm of the hand is forward or upward |
| symptom | is subjective evidence of a disease, such as pain or a headache |
| syndrome | is a set of signs and symptoms that occur together as part of a specific disease process |
| tonsillitis | is an inflammation of the tonsils |
| trauma | means wound or injury |
| triage | is the medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need & the proper place of treatment |
| viral | means pertaining to a virus |
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