Terminology4
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- Ad- (Sometimes "a" with the constant which the word begins with, as "af-" in afferent)
- To, towards
- Asthenia, -asthenia
- Weakness
- Clonus, Clon/o, -clonus
- Rapid alteration of rigidity and relaxation
- Drom/o
- A running
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Derm/a, Derm/o, Dermat/o,
-derma - Skin
- E-, Ec-, Ex- (sometimes "e" with the consonant the word root begins with, as "ef" in efferent
- Out of, away from
- Electr/o
- Electricity
- Febrile
- Feverish, pertaining to a fever
- My/o
- Muscle
- Nerv/o, Nerv/i, Neur/o, Neur/i
- Nerve
- Phylaxis, -phylaxis
- Protection aganist infection, to guard
- Puri, Puro, Py/o
- Pus
- Pyret/o
- Fever
- Pyro
- Heat, fire, or prepared by fire
- Sarc/o
- Flesh, muscle
- Sepsis, Spetic/o
- Putrefication; the presence of various pusforming and other pathogenic organism, or their toxins, in the blood or tissues
- Sept/i
- Septum; a dividing wall; Putrefaction
- Spasm, spasm/o, -spasm
- an involuntary muscular contraction, convulsion
- Sym-, syn-
- with, together
- Tetan/o
- Convulsive tension
- -ferent, -ferous
- Adjective; To bear, convey, produce
- -gram
- A record or tracing
- -graph
- An instrument for recording, sometimes a writing
- -graphy
- Process of recording, writing, or description
- -lemma
- Sheath or envelope
- Efferent
- Conducting outward, away from or into; denoting certain nerves, arteries, veins and lymphatics.
- Pyodermatitis
- Pus-producing inflammation of the skin
- Dromic
- Relating to nerve impulses that are conducted in the normal direction
- Afferent
- Bringing to or into; conveying toward or into; denoting certain nerves, arteries, veins and lymphatics.
- Electromyogram
- The record of changes in electrical potential associated with muscular contraction.
- Neurospasm
- Muscular spasm or twitching caused by a disordered nerve supply
- Myasthenia
- Muscular weakness
- Myositis
- Inflammation of muscle tissue, esp. voluntary muscles
- Pyogenic
- Producing-pus
- Puriform
- Resembling pus
- Prophylaxis
- The prevention of diseases, preventative treatment
- Antipyretic
- Relieving or reducing fever, or an agent which relieves or reduces fever
- Pyrogen
- A fever-producing substance
- Sarcolemma
- Sheath enveloping a muscle fiber
- Spasmolytic
- That which stops or prevents sudden, involuntary muscular contractions
- Septal
- Relating to a septum
- Aseptic
- Relating to the absence of putrefactive organism
- Ossiferous
- Producing bony, bony
- Tetanus
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1. A substained muscular contraction caused by repeated stimuli in rapid succession
2. a disease caused by a specific toxin and characterized by painful tonic contractions (jaw and back muscles) - Syndrome
- The aggregate of signs and symptoms associated with any disease
- Electrocardiography
- Process of recording electrical currents from the heart and study and interpretation of such records
- Physiograph
- An instrument for recording a number of actions of living organisms and tissues
- Electrocardiogram
- the graphic record of the heart's electrical activity
- Blepharoclonus
- Alternate involuntary contraction and relaxation of eyelid muscles
- Neurolemma
- the sheath enveloping a nerve fiber
- Electrocardiograph
- An instrument for recording the potential of the electric currents that transverse the heart and initiate its contraction
- Antiseptic
- Preventing decay or putrefaction, or an agent which opposes decay or putrefaction either by killing or by preventing growth of microorganisms
- Myatrophy
- Muscular wasting away.
- Myocardial
- Concerning heart muscle
- Myoclonus
- Twitching or alternate contraction and relaxation of a muscle(s)
- Neuropathy
- Any disease of the nervous system, especially in the peripheral nervous system
- Prodromal
- Relating to an early or initial stage of disease.
- Septicemia
- Diseased condition from absorption of pathogenic microogranisms or their products in the blood; blood poising
- Syncytial
- Pertaining to a multi-nucleate mass produced by the merging of cells.