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Intro- Medical Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abdominecentesis | Surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity |
| Acronym | Word formed from the initial letters of the major parts of a compound term |
| Acute | condition that has a rapid onset, a severe course, & a relatively short education |
| Angiography | The X-ray examination of blood vessels or lymphatics following injection of a radiopaque substance. |
| Appendectomy | Excision of the vermiform appendix appendix |
| Arteriosclerosis | Degenerative changes in the arteries, characterized by the thickning of the vessel walls and accumulation of calcium with consequent loss of elasticity and lessned blood flow. |
| Arthalgia | Pain in the joint or joints |
| Colostomy | the construction of an artificial opening from the colon through the abdominal wall, thus by passing a diseased portion of the lower intestine and permitting the passage of intestinal contents |
| Cyanosis | blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood |
| Dermatologist | Doctor who specializes on the treatment of diseases on the skin |
| Diagnosis | The process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition |
| Diarrhea | Frequent flow of loose or watery stools |
| Edema | Swelling cause by excess fluids in the body tissues |
| Endarterial | The innermost lining of a an artery |
| Eponym | Disease structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or discribed it first. |
| Erythrocyte | The red blood cells |
| Fissure | A groove or crack like sore of the skin |
| Fistula | Abnormal passage ussually between two internal organs or leading from an open organ to the surface of the body |
| Gastralgia | Stomach Pain |
| Gastritis | Inflammation of the stomach |
| Grastroentitis | Inflammation of the stomach and the small intestine |
| Gastrosis | any disease of the stomach |
| Hemorrhage | loss of a large amount of blood in a short period of time |
| Hepatomegaly | Abnormal enlargment of the liver |
| Hypertension | higher than normal blood |
| Interstitial | Between both not within the parts of a tissue |
| Intramuscular | within the muscle |
| Laceration | tored of jagged wound or accidental cut wound |
| lession | pathologic path of the tissues due to the disease or injury |
| Mycosis | 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 | rupture of any muscle |
| natal | pertaining to birth |
| neonatalogy | the studies of the disorders of the newborn |
| neurtis | inflammation of a nerve or nerves |
| otorhinolaryngology | the study of the ears, larynx, or throat |
| palpation | examination technique in which the examiners hands are used to feel the texture size consistency & location of a certain body part. |
| palpitation | pounding or racing of the heart |
| pathology | the study of all aspects of diseases |
| hypotension | lower than normal blood |
| infection | invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism |
| inflammation | localized response to an unjury or destruction of tissues |
| phalanges | bones in fingers & toes |
| poliomyelitits | viral infaction of the gray matter of the spinal cord |
| prognosis | the prediction of the probable course & outcome of a disorder |
| prostate | male gland that lies under the urinary bladder that surrounds the urethra |
| pyoderma | any acute, inflammatory, pus formming bacterial infection |
| pyrosis | also known as heartburn, is discomfor due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus |
| remission | temporary, partial, or complete dissapereance of the simptoms of a disease without having achieved a cure |
| sign | objective evidence of a disease such as 'fever' (objective means something that can be measured by the patient or others ) |
| supination | the act or rotaing the arm so that the palm of the hand is forward or upward |
| suppuration | the formation or dischrge of pus |
| supracoastal | above or outside the ribs |
| symptom | subject of evidence of a disease, such as a headache or pain |
| Syndrome | set of the signs and symtoms that occur together as a part of a specific disease process |
| tonsillitis | inflammation of the tonsils |
| trauma | wound or injury |
| triage | medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need & the proper place for treatment |
| viral | pertaining to a virus |
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