Anatomy 4
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- febrile
- denoting or relating to a fever; feverish; haveing a fever; pyretic
- septal
- relating to a septum
- septic
- the presence of various pus-forming and other pathogenic organisms, or their toxins, in the blood or tissues; putrifaction
- neurospasm
- muscular spasm or twitching caused by a disordered nerve supply
- neurolemma
- the sheath encasing the axon of a nerve fiber
- prophylaxis
- the prevention of disease; preventative treatment
- sympathomimetic
- denotes mimicking of the actions of the sympathetic nervous system
- pyogenesis
- producing pus
- myasthenia
- muscular weakness
- pyogen
- an agent that causes the formation of pus
- afferent
- bringing toward or into
- myositis
- inflammation of muslce tissue, esp voluntary muscles
- tetano
- convulsive tension
- efferent
- conducting outward, away from
- myalgia
- pain in the muscles
- ectopic
- out of place; in an abnormal location
- pyrosis
- also called heartburn, substernal pain or burning sensation, usually associated with regurgitation of gastric juices into the esophagus
- aseptic
- condition in which living pathongens are apsent
- sarco
- denotes a muscular substance or a resemblance to flesh
- pyrogen
- a fever-producing substance
- electrocardiography
- (EKG or ECG) the process of recording electrical currents from the heart; the study and interpretation of such recordings
- antipyretic
- relieving or reducing fever, or a substance / agent that has such an action
- dermatology
- the medical specialty concerned with diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders
- clonus
- rapid alteration between contraction and relaxation of muscle
- antiseptic
- substance / agent capable of preventing infection by inhibiting growth of infectious agents
- electrocardiograph
- instrument used for recording the potential of hte electrical currents that traverse the heart and initiate its contraction
- adduct
- to move a limb or any other part toward the midline of the body
- tetanus
- acute infectious disease marked by tonicspasms, esp of jaw and back muscles; sustained muscular contraction caused by a series or nerve stimuli repeated resulting in a sustained / continuous contraction of muscle (no twitching)
- neurology
- the branch of medical science concerned with the nervous system and its disorders
- spasmolytic
- an agent that relieves smooth muscle spasms
- pyodermatitis
- this is a pus-producing inflammation of the skin
- electrocardiogram
- the graphic record / representation of the heart's electrical activity
- ossiferous
- containing or producing bone; bony
- neuro
- nerve, nervous tissue, nervous system
- sarcomere
- the basic contractile unit of striated muscle; the segment of a myofibril between two ajacent z-lines
- exocrine
- denoting a gland that secretes outwardly through ducts
- sarcolemma
- the plasma membrane sheath enveloping a muslce fiber
- syndrome
- the aggregate of signs and symptoms associated with any disease
- spasm
- a sudden, involuntary muscular contraction, convulsion
- lemma
- sheath or envelope
- electromyogram
- a graphic representation of the electrical currents associated with muscular contraction, obtained by inserting electrodes into the muscle fibers
- puriform
- resembling pus
- blepharoclonus
- alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles of the eyelids
- purulent
- containing, consisting or, or forming pus
- ferent
- to convey, produce, or bear