INTRODUCTION TO MED. TERMIOLOGY
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| bad, difficult, painful | dys-
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| excessive, increased | hyper-
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| enlargement | -megaly
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| pain, suffering | -algia
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| surgical removal | -ectomy
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| abnormal condition or disease | -osis
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| abnormal softening | -malacia
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| deficient, decreased | -hypo
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| inflammation | -itis
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| tissue death | -necrosis
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| bleeding, bursting forth | -rrhage
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| creation of artificial opening to the body | -ostomy
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| surgical incision | -otomy
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| surgical repair | -plasty
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| surgical suturing | -rrhapy
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| visual examination | -scopy
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| rupture | -rrhexis
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| abnormal narrowing | -stenosis
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| abnormal hardening | -sclerosis
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| flow or discharge | -rrhea
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| The ___________________ describes any pathologic change or disease in the spinal cord A. myelopathy B. myopathy C. pyelitis D. pyrosis | A. myelophathy
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| The medical term for higher than normal blood pressure ______________ | B. hypertension
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| The term ____________ means pertaining to birth. | natal
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| Pain is classified as __________. | symptom
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| In the term myopathy, the suffix -pathy means | abnormal condition
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| white blood cells | leukocyte
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| prediction of the outcome of a disease | prognosis
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| swelling caused by excess fluid in the body tissues | edema
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| sudden onset | acute
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| turning the palm of the hand upward | supination
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| examination procedure | palpation
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| male gland | prostate
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| pathologic tissue change | lesion
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| pounding heart | palpatation
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| torn, ragged wound or an accidental cut wound | laceration
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| The medical term ________________ inflammation of the stomach | gastritis
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| The formation of pus is called ____________. | suppuration
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| The term meaning wound or injury is ________. | trauma
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| The term _________ means pertaining to a virus. | viral
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| An _____________ is the surgical removal of the appendix | appendectomy
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| A disease named for the person who discovered it is known as an ______________ | eponym
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| A localized response to injury or tissue destruction is called | inflammation
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| The medical term meaning the inflammation of a nerve or nerves is | neuritis
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| The medical term meaning inflammation of the tonsils is | tonsillitis
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| abnormal condition or disease of the stomach | gatalgia
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| a set of signs and symptoms | syndrome
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| rupture of a muscle | myorrhexis
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| stomach pain | gastrosis
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| any acute pus-forming bacterial skin infection | pyoderma
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| The abnormal hardening of the walls of an artery or arteries is called ____________. | arteriosclerosis
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| A fever is considered to be a ____________. | sign
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| An inflammation of the stomach and small intestine is known as ______________. | gastroenteritis
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| The meaning pain in a joint or joints is _____________. | arthralgia
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| A ______________ is a physician who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases and disorders of the skin. | dermatologist
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| Lower than normal blood pressure | hypotension
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| The process of recording a radiographic study of the blood vessels after the injection of a contrast | angiography
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| An erythrocyte is commonly known as red blood cell | true
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| Arteriomalacia is abnormal hardening of blood vessels of the walls of an artery or arteries | false
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| A colostomy is the surgical creation of an opening between the colon and the body surface | true
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| Malaise is ofter the first symptoms of inflammation | false
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| An infection is the invasion of the body by a disease producing organism. | true
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| otorhinolaryngology | oto rhino laryng -ology
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| mycosis | myco -sis
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| poliomyelitis | po lio my eli tis
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| neonatology | neo nat ology
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