Test #1 Medical Terminology
Terms
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- gastritis
- Inflammation of the stomach
- aphagia
- Inability to swallow
- diplopia
- Double vision
- etiology
- The study of the causes of disease
- homeostasis
- The state of dynamic equilibrium of the internal environment of the body.
- diaphram
- Muscle that separates the abdomen from the thoracic cavity
- neoplastic
- New growth, usually in reference to cancer
- stomatitis
- Inflammation of the mouth
- hypodermic
- under the skin, as in a hypodermioc injection
- postmortem
- After death
- prognosis
- Prediction of the course and end of a disease, and the estimate of chance for recovery
- pathogenic
- Productive of disease. Origin of disease
- peritoneum
- membrane lining the abdominal cavity
- sign
- Visible manifestation of a disease or illness by an observer. Objective
- nephritis
- Inflammation of the kidney
- contraindicated
- inappropriate to treatment
- malaise
- weakness, fatigue, listlessness
- pathogen
- microorganism that causes disease
- iatrogenic
- illness/injury caused by medical treatment
- symptom
- changes in the body as perceived by the patient. Subjective.
- aphasia
- No speech
- postrandial
- following a meal
- morbid
- diseased
- histology
- microscopic study of the tissues.
- idiopathic
- Pertaining to illnesses who cause is either uncertain or as yet undetermined.
- pathogenesis
- The origin or development of a disease
- epidermis
- the outermost layer of the skin.
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -tripsy
- surgical crushing
- -penia
- decrease, deficiency
- -algia
- pain
- -stomy
- opening (mouth)
- -genesis
- origin
- hypo-
- under
- infra-
- below, under
- eu-
- good
- mal-
- bad
- post-
- after
- -centisis
- puncture and aspiration
- -iasis
- state or condition
- -philia
- love for, craving for, tendency toward
- -plasia
- formation or growth
- -tomy
- incision
- -logy
- Study of
- Hyper-
- above, excessive, beyond
- supra-
- above, beyond, or on the top side
- para-
- near, beside, past, beyond, opposite, abnormal, irregular, two like parts
- neo-
- new, recent
- -desis
- binding, fixation
- -oid
- indicating resemblance to the item designated in the first part of the word.
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -emisis
- vomiting
- -poiesis
- formation, production
- -logist
- specialist
- Brady-
- slow
- epi-
- upon, over, at, in addition to, after.
- dys-
- bad
- pan-
- all
- a-/an-
- without, away from, not
- -pexy
- fixation (surgical)
- -osis
- condition, status
- -dynia
- pain
- -oma
- tumor mass
- -lysis
- loosen or dissolve
- -ectomy
- excision of any anatomical structure
- tachy-
- rapid, swift
- uni-
- one
- homo-
- the same or a likeness
- ante-
- before
- pre-
- before
- Elements of a word
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1. Word Root
2. Combining Form
3. Suffix
4. Prefix - Word Root
- Core of medical word, contains the fundamental meaning of the word.
- Combining Form
- Word root with a vowel, usually an "o"
- Suffix
- Element at the end of a word, usually means procedure, conditiion, disease or part of speech.
- Prefix
- Element at the beginning of a word. Usually means a number, tim, positionm, direction, or negation.
- Planes of the body
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1. Midsagital (median)
2. Coronal (frontal)
3. Transverse (horizontal) - Midsagittal Plane
- Right and left halves
- Coronal (frontal)
- Anterior (ventral) and posterior (dorsal) aspects
- Transverse (horizontal)
- Superior (upper) and inferior (lower) aspects
- Dorsal
- Cranial and Spinal
- Ventral
- Thoracic and Abdominopelvic
- Cranial main organ(s)
- Brain
- Spinal main organ(s)
- Spine
- Thoracic main organ(s)
- Heart, lungs and associted structures
- Abdominopelvic main organ(s)
- Digestive, excretory, and reproductikve organs and structures.
- Types of Tissue
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1. Epithelial
2. Connective
3. Muscle
4. Nervous - To define medical words, you usually start with
- the word root
- Arthr/o is an example of
- A combining form
- Adsternal means
- near or towards the sternum
- Abduction means
- lateral movement of the limbs AWAY from the median plane of the body.