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 |