diagnostic, symptomatic, and related terms
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- interventional
- use of imaging techniques in the nonsurgical treatment of various disorders, such as balloon angioplasty and cardiac catheterization
- febrile
- Feverish; pertaining to a fever
- analyte
- Substance being analyzed or tested, generally by means of a chemical
- nuclear medicine
- Branch of medicine concerned with the use of radioactive substances for diagnosis, treatment , and research
- suppurative
- Producing or associated with generation of pus
- radiolory
- medical discipline concerned with the use of electromagnetic radiation, ultrasound, and imaging techniques for diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury
- scan
- Term used to describe a computerized image by modality ( such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and nuclear ) or by structure ( such as thyroid and bone )
- morbid
- Diseased; pertaining to a disease
- adhesion
- Abnormal fibrous band that holds normally separated tissues together, usually occurring within a body cavity
- dehiscence
- Bursting open of a wound, especially a surgical abdominal wound
- contrast medium
- In radiology, a substance that is injected into the body, introduced via catheter, or swallowed to facilitate radiographic imaging of internal structures that otherwise are difficult to visualize on x-ray films
- inflammation
- Body defense against injury, infection, or allergy marked by redness, swelling, heat , pain, and sometimes , loss of function
- radionuclides
- substances that emit radiation spontaneously; also call tracers
- radiopharmaceutical
- Radionuclide attached to a protein, sugar, or other substance that travels to organ or area of the body that will be scanned
- homeostasis
- Relative constancy or equilibrium in the internal environment of the body, which is maintained by the ever-changing processes of feed back and regulation in response to external or internal changes
- diagnostic
- Medical imaging using external sources of radiation to evaluate body structures and functions of organs`
- therapeutic
- use of ionizing radiation in the treatment of malignant tumors; also called radiation oncology
- sepsis
- Pathological state, usually febrile, resulting from the presence of microorganisms or their products in the bloodstream