Med term unit 10
Terms
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- autonomic
- self-controlling part of the nervous system (adjective)
- millimeter
- one thousandth of a meter
- pyrexia
- fever
- decalcification
- calcium loss
- epilepsy
- disorder characterized by seizures
- hydrophobia
- fear of water
- descending
- moving downward
- circumocular
- encircling the eye
- excision
- removing a body part
- decaliter
- ten liters
- abrasion
- scraping
- diaphoresis
- profuse sweating
- necrotomy
- incision into dead tisssue
- anhidrosis
- absence of sweating
- perforation
- puncturing
- deciliter
- oen tenth of a liter
- excretion
- removal of waster
- circumscribed
- encircling or in the shape of a circle
- mastocarcinoma
- breast cancer
- mastectomy
- excision of breast tissue
- multicapsular
- having more than one capsule (adjective)
- mononucleosis
- viral infection causing monocytosis
- pyromania
- compulsion for setting fires
- abnormal
- unusual (not normal)
- primigravida
- first pregnancy
- perihepatitis
- inflammation around the liver
- circumduction
- moving as to describe a circle with a body part
- exhale
- breathe out
- pericardiectomy
- excision of the membrane around the heart
- decagram
- ten grams
- monocyte
- one cell
- centigram
- oen hundredth of a gram
- percussion
- striking or tapping
- multipara
- having many live births (born in third trimester)
- autophobia
- abnormal fear of one's self, being alone
- pyrometer
- thermometer
- autophagia
- biting one's self
- centimeter
- one hundredth of a meter
- pyrophilia
- attraction to fire
- pericolic
- area surrounding the colon
- pyrosis
- heartburn
- mononeural
- involving one nerve
- hematophilia
- attraction to blood
- extraction
- removal or pulling out of a body part
- periarticular
- area surrounding a joint
- abortion
- termination of pregnancy
- cytoplasm
- substance within the cell (endoplasm)
- primipara
- first live birth
- diuresis
- increase in urine output
- autopsy
- necropsy, postmortem examination
- monoma
- a single tumor
- adduction
- movement toward the midline
- autogenous
- made by or from one's own tissues (adjective)
- nocturnal enuresis
- bed wetting
- autophilia
- attraction of one's self
- anisomastia
- breasts of unequal size
- transluminal
- across the lumen
- isotonic
- osmotic pressure equal to the inside of a cell
- multinuclear
- a cell having more than one nucleus
- autodiagnosis
- diagnosing one's self
- isometric
- measures the same on all sides
- autoimmunity
- reaction of immune response to one
- flexion
- to shorten or bend a body part
- aboral
- away from the mouth
- multicellular
- having or involving many cells (adjective)
- decigram
- one tenth of a gram
- isodactylism
- digits the same length
- diuretic
- agent that causes diuresis
- autohemotherapy
- transfusion with one's own blood
- cholangiopancreatography
- X-ray of bile ducts and pancreatic ducts using contrast medium
- nullipara
- having no pregnancies carried to the third trimester
- necrotic
- pertaining to necrosis
- necroparasite
- organism tha lives off dead tissue
- extension
- to straighten or lengthen a body part
- pyrophobia
- abnormal fear of fire
- ablactation
- weaning a baby from the breast
- monocytosis
- increase in the number of monocytes
- pyrotoxin
- poisonous by-product of metabolism created during fever
- abduction
- movement away form the midline
- autograft
- graft of tissues from one's own body
- multiglandular
- having or involving many glands (adjective)
- isocellular
- equal size cells
- monomyoplegia
- paralysis of one muscle
- mononuclear
- having one nucleus
- necrophobia
- abnormal fear of dead bodies
- dehydration
- water loss
- peritonsillar
- area surrounding the tonsils
- deciduous
- falls down (primary teeth that come out)
- autodermic
- plastic surgery and grafting using one's own skin (dermatoplasty)
- hydrophilia
- attraction to water
- ablation
- takes away a layer or destroys a tissue layer
- anisocytosis
- cells of unequal sizes
- aberrant
- wandering away from the norm
- pyrolysis
- destruction of tissue caused by fever
- necrectomy
- excision of dead tissue
- aerophilia
- attraction to air
- percutaneous
- through the skin
- necrocytosis
- condition of cell death of decomposition