Terminology Five
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- Acusis, -acusis, -acousis
- Hearing
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Algesi/o, alge-, algo-,
-algia - Pain
- Audi/o
- Hearing
- Dia-
- Across, through
- Esthesi/o, -esthesia
- Sensations
- Kines/i
- Movement, motion
- Lith/o, -lith
- Stone or calculus
- Metr/o
- Uterus, measurement
- Muc/o, Myx/o
- Mucus
- Myc/o, mycet-, myces,-mycin
- Fungus
- Myring/o
- Eardrum
- Osm/o
- Smell, odor, or osmosis
- Ot/o
- Ear
- Hemi-
- One-half
- Para-
- Beyond, beside, abnormal, involvement of two like parts
- Presby-
- OLD
- Salping/o
- trumpet, auditory tube, uterine or Fallopian tube
- Stere/o
- Solid, three-deminisions
- Tinnitus
- Noises in the ear (ringing, buzzing, roaring, etc.)
- Tympan/o
- Drum or middle ear
- Vertigo
- An illusion or movement, either of the external world revolving around the subject or the subject revolving (not faintness)
- -Meter
- instrument to measure
- -metry
- measuring
- -odynia
- Pain
- -osmia
- smell, odor
- -phasia
- Speech
- -plegia
- Paralysis, stroke
- -taxia, -taxis, -taxy
- Arrangement, order
- Diapedesis
- Passage of blood cells through unruptured vessel wall into the tissues
- Audiology; Otology
- Science of hearing and diseases of the ears
- Algesimeter (Algesiometer)
- An instrument used in measuring the sensitiveness to pain.
- Myalgia
- Pain in the muscle
- Lithotomy
- Incision of a duct or organ, especially the bladder, for removal of a calculus (stone).
- Kinesia
- Any form of motion sickness.
- Anesthesia
- Partial or complete loss of sensation, with or without loss of consciousness)
- Mycosis
- Any disease induced by a fungus
- Mucoenteritis
- Inflammation of the intestinal mucous membrane
- Myxoma
- A tumor composed of mucous tissue
- Endometrium
- Inner lining of the uterus.
- Hypermetia
- Condition in which voluntary movements overreach their goal
- Otitis
- Inflammation of the ear
- Osmometer
- Instrument for testing sense of smell. Instrument for measuring osmosis
- Myringoscope
- Instrument for examining the eardrum
- Presbyopia
- Condition of vision in the aged involving loss of accommodation
- Paravertebral
- Along-side or near the vertebral column
- Hemisphere
- Half of any spherical structure; lateral half of cerebrum or cerebellum
- Astereognosis
- Inability to ascertain the form or shape of objects by feeling them
- Salpingotomy
- Operation of cutting into the uterine tube
- Thermometer
- Instrument for measuring temperature
- Tympanitis
- Inflammation of the middle ear; otitis media
- Anosmia
- Lack of sense of smell
- Cardiodynia
- Pain in the heart; cardialgia
- Craniometry
- Measurement of the skull and its topography
- Ataxia
- Lack of muscular coordination
- Hemiplegia
- Paralysis of one side of the body
- Aphasia
- A lack of ability to express ideas by language in any form (speech, writing, or signs) or failure to comprehend spoken or written language due to brain abnormality
- Hyperacusis
- Abnormal acuteness of hearing
- Analgesia
- Loss of sensibility to pain (designating particularly the relief of pain without loss of consciousness).
- Cardioplegic
- Relating to paralysis of the heart or an elective stopping of heart activity temporarily
- Endometriosis
- A condition marked by tissue resembling the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, located in abnormal places in the abdominal cavity.
- Hyperesthesia
- Excessive sensibility to touch, pain or other sensory stimuli.
- Isometric
- Having equal dimensions. In reference to muscular contractions, a contraction in which tension is developed by shortening does not occur.
- kinesthesia
- the sense by which muscular motion, weight, and body position are perceived.
- Myometrium
- the muscular layer of the wall of the uterus
- Otomycosis
- Fungus infection of the external canal of the ear
- Paraplegic
- Pertaining to paralysis of both legs and ususally, the lower portion of the trunk
- Parenteral
- Injection or introduction into the body by any route other than the alimentary canal.
- Paresthesia
- Abnormal sensation without objective cause, such as numbness, tingling, or burning
- Presbyacusis
- A progressive loss of hearing due to advancing age
- Somesthesia, Somatoesthesia
- Sensibility to bodily sensations, consciousness of the body
- Synesthesia
- A secondary sensation from a stimulus addition to the one appropriate for the stimulus, either a subjective sensation or different character (modality) or different location
- Tympanic
- Pertaining to the middle ear cavity; tympanum. Resonant,bell-like
- Tympanoplasty
- Surgical correction or restoration of the hearing mechanism of the middle ear
- Dysmetria
- the inability to stop a muscular movement at the desired point or control the range of movement.