Ch 1 Intro to Med Terms
Terms
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- erythr/o
- red
- leuk/o
- white
- cranium
- portion of skull enclosing brain
- -ac
- pertaining to
- dys
- bad/difficult
- hypo
- reduced, deficient, decreased
- -osis
- abnormal condition or disease
- -malacia
- abnormal softening
- -rrhage
- bursting forth of blood
- -rrhea
- excessive flow/discharge
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- hyper-
- excessive/increased
- -otomy
- The incision or cutting
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -sclerosis
- abnormal hardening
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -rrhapy
- suture
- ology
- the study of
- neuritis
- inflammation of the nerve
- neur/o
- nerve
- abdominocenteses
- surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- centesis
- surgical puncture to remove fluid
- heptomegaly
- enlarged liver
- hept/o
- liver
- -megaly
- enlargement
- endarterial
- pertaining to the interior or lining of an artery
- end/o
- within
- arteri
- artery
- -al
- pertaining to
- pyoderma
- acute, inflammatory pus forming bacterial skin infection
- py/o
- pus
- derma
- skin
- neonatology
- study of the disorders of newborns
- myelopathy
- disease in the spinal cord
- myopathy
- muscle disease
- my/o
- muscle
- edema
- swelling caused by excessive fluid in the body tissue
- pyrosis
- heartburn - regurgitation of stomach acid into the esophagus
- Ilium
- pertaining the the hip bone
- Ileum
- last and longest portion of the SM intestine
- Fissure
- Groove/crack like sore on the skin or normal folds in the brain
- Fistula
- Abnormal passage, usually between 2 organs, or leading from an organ to body surface.
- Suppuration
- Formation or discharge of puss
- Supination
- Act of rotatin one's palm up, forward and out.
- Palpation
- Exam technique using ones hands to feel a pt for size, texture consistency...
- Prostrate
- To collapse and be lying flat
- palpitation
- pounding / racing heart
- Arteriosclerosis
- hardening of the artery
- Natal
- Pertaining to birth
- Intramuscular
- Within the muscle
- Supracostal
- Above or outside the ribs
- Interstitial
- Between but not within parts of a tissue