Med terms Unit 4
Terms
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- nonpathogenic
- not disease producing
- diplococcus
- grown in pairs
- coccus
- sphereically shaped bacteria singular
- diplo
- cocci growing in pairs
- dystrophy
- literally means poor development
- neisseria gonorrhea
- (N.gonococcus) causes veneral disease gonorrhea
- pneumococcus
-
causes pneumonia
singular - meningiococcus
-
causes one form of meningitits
singular - otodynia/otalgia
- pain in either ear
- strepto
- twisted chains or strips
- cocci
- plural sphereically shaped bacteria
- streptococcus
- grow in twisted chains
- dipmenorrhea
- painful/difficult menstruation
- STD Viruses
- Hepatitis, AIDS, Genital Herpes/warts
- amenorrhea
- absence of menstruation
- staphylo
- bunch of grapes, grows in clusters
- dipsomania
- old term for alcoholism
- STD Fungi
- Candidiasis
- polydipsia
- excessive thirst (high salt)
- ad
- auris dextra -right ear
- microcyst
- small cyst
- typanum
- ear drum
- dysphagia
- difficult swallowing
- SIDS
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- ot/o combining form
-
ear
aur=ear - FAS
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- STD Bacteria
- infections, gonorrhea/syphilis
- syndrome
- complete picture of disease-a variety of symptoms occurring together
- Audiologist
- hearing specialist not MD. speech and hearing
- microcardia
- small heart
- -rrhea suffix
- discharge
- pro/drome
- running before (a disease)
- B. anthracis (anthrax)
- bacillus anthracis, spore forming bacterial rod
- macrocytes
- large cells
- otic solution
- solution Tx for ear-ear drops
- microcytes
- small cells
- STD Parasites
- "CRabs/scabies" trichomoniasis
- macrodactylia
- having abnormally large fingers/toes
- MTD
- membrana tympani dextra-right eardrum
- dips
- root word for thirst
- bacillus
- rod-shaped bacterium (plural bacilli)
- poly- prefix
- too much/many
- otorrhea
- discharge from ear-flowing from
- dipsia
- thirst
- MTS
-
membrana tympani sinistra
left eardrum
- SIADH
-
Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone
- otitis media (OM)
- Infection in middle ear, most infections occur there. blood,pus,fever all symptoms and pain
- prodromal symptoms
- symptoms indicating an approaching disease
- pyorrhea
- flow or discharge of pus
- synergism
- drugs that work together to increase ea. other's effects
- pyogenic
- forms pus-pyogenic bacterium
- tachy prefix
- fast or rapid
- typanic
- pertaining to eardrum
- rhinorrhea
- drainage from the nose due to headcold (symptom)
- as
- auris sinistra-left ear
- peps/o combinging form
- digestion
- cholecystogram
- xray of gallbladder
- myringotomy
- same as typanotomy
- dactyl word root
- fingers or toes
- -metry suffix
- process of measuring
- bradycardia
- abnormally slow heart action
- hyperthermia
- high body temp.(fever) low body temp. hypothermia
- anorexia
- loss of appetite
- syndactylism
- joining together of 2+ digits
- macrocephalus
- abnormally large head
- microencephaly
- abnormally small brain
- tympanotomy
- incision into the eardrum-insert tubes, let drain, relieve pressure. Tx w/antibiotics first.
- macroglossia
- enlarged tongue
- dactylogram
- fingerprint
- micro prefix
- small
- phagia
- eating/swallowing
- rhinitis
- inflammation of the nose
- -pnea
-
breathing -suffix
when used as prefix p is silent - dyspepsia
- poor digestion-eating to rapidly, eating under tension
- audiogram
- record made by the instrument used to test hearing
- dactyl/o combining form
- fingers or toes
- typanic membrane
- eardrum
- anodynia
- absence of pain
- apnea
- w/o breathing;cessation of breathing
- therm/o combinging form
- heat 37c/98.6f
- dys- prefix
- painful,faulty,diseased,bad or difficult
- diathermy
- heating through tissue (Tx)
- a/an prefixes
-
a/procedes constanant
an/procedes vowel
meaning: without or lack of - bradyphagia
- slow eating-abnormally slow swallowing
- chol/e combinging form
- gall or bile gallbladder
- audiometry
- process of measuring hearing. audiometer-measures hearing
- apepsia
- cessation fo digestion (w/o digestion)
- cholelithiasis
- presence of gallstone in gallbladder (GB)
- brady- prefix
- slow
- tachypnea
- rapid breathing
- pepsia
- digestion
- aperistalsis
- absence of perstalsis
- tachycardia
- rapid heart action abnormally fast
- cholelith
- gallstone
- bradypnea
- slow breathing
- audi/o combinging form
- hearing
- rhinoplasty
- surgical repair of nose. mostly asesthetic reasons "nose job" insurance purposes, deviated septum
- rhinosalpingitis
- inflammation fo the muscosa of the nose and eustachian tube.
- thermometer
- instrument used to measure heat
- anaerobic
- able to live w/o oxygen
- salping/o combinging form
- eustachian tubes and fallopian tubes depends on usage.
- cholecystectomy
- excision of gallbladder due to gallstones/removal of gallbladder
- rhin/o combinging form
- nose
- microcephalus
- abnormally small head-retarded limits brain size
- peptic adj
- digestion
- peptic ulcers
- stomach ulcers
- tachyphagia
- fast eating
- cardia
- heart
- lith/o combining form
- stone or calculus
- analgesia
- absence of a normal sense of pain
- microgram
- one millionith of a milligram
- macro prefix
- large
- polydactylism
-
having too many fingers/toes
dactyl=digit - syn- prefix
- w/ or together
- synergistic
- muscles that work together (like 3 muscles in forearm)
- synarthrosis
- indicates immovable joint-fused together