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- ana-
- upward, excessive
- a- or an-
- without, not
- aphasia, aphasic
- without ability to express oneself or speak
- anemia, anemic
- deficiency in hemoglobin of blood
- atrophy, atrophic
- without growth, development, or nourishment
- anaerobic, anaerobe
-
a kind of bacteria
an organism that lives and grows without Oxygen - afebrile
- without fever
- aglossia
- without a tongue, congenital problem
- amenorrhea
- absence of normal menstrual flow
- anoxia
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without Oxygen.
Tissues receive insufficient supply of oxygen. - analgesia, analgesic
- absence of pain
- anodyne
- older term- without pain
- anuria, anuric
- absence of urine production
- anovular
- lack of ovulation
- akinesia
- absence or loss of normal muscular tone (muscle unresponsive)
- amentia
- failure to develop intellectual capacity
- anesthesia, anesthetic
- loss of sensation (general and local)
- ataxia
- loss of regulation of posture and ability to control movement of limbs
- atony, atonia
- loss of normal tone or elasticity of muscle
- atopic
-
form of allergy or hypertensitivity resulting from an irritant or a reactant to an antigen.
ex. skin condition, exema atopic dermatitis (hypersensitivity) - ab- , de-
- away from
- abcision
- cutting tissue away from the body
- abductor
- muscle that moves one part of the body away from another
- decapitate
- take one's head away from body
- detoxification
-
syn. metabolism/ conversion of chemical or change away from its more active or toxic form (reduced pharmacologic activity)
older term - debridement
- cleansing dirt and removing dead tissue or cellular debris away from a wound.
- ad-
- to, toward, near
- adhesion
-
union of two normally separate services in body
ex. adhesions (coming together) of 2 loops of intestine --> painful healing procss in which edges of wound come together - ambi- , ampho-
- both
- ambivalence
- psychologic condition (sometimes disorder) holding two opposing view points simultaneously.
- ambilateral
- affecting viewpoints both simultaneously.
- amphoteric
-
chemical ter- describes che compound that contains in molecules, acidic and basic functional grup
Classic ex: amino acid, tetracycline, aminophillins (penicilin) or Ampicillin - ante-, fore-, pre-, pro-
- in front of, before (temporal or positional)
- anteprandial drug administration
- before meal
- antepartum heorrhage
- bleeding from genital tract during 3rd trimester before delivery
- forebrain
- farthest foreward division of brain
- preterm delivery
- premature birth or pre delivery
- prenatal vitamins
- vitamins taken before delivery
- precancerous polyp
- non malignant growth that may become malignant if not removed or treated
- prospective DUR
-
syn. concurrent DUR
reviewing each Rx or drug order for an individual patient before its dispensed.
To identify drug related problems: DDI's or drug diease contraindicated or therapeutic duplication which is to be avoided and other ADRs -
prodromal fever
AND
prodromal rash - period of time between appearance of first symptoms of an infectious disease and development of fever and rash
- prodrug
-
biologically inactive compound which is converted in body by metabolism
ex. prednisone the prodrug of prednisolone - anterior
- front part of animal or person