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Chapter 16 Flashcards

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Apollo

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god of light, prophecy and healing

  • killed Coronis (lover) for unfaithfulness
  • gave her son to Chiron (Wise centaur who taught him the art of medicine)
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Asclepius

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Apollo’s son, the god of medicine, known as the blameless physician

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Hippocrates

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Father of Medicine

  • founded a medical school
  • first to base medicine on science (not gods)
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surgery

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cheir (hand) and ergon (work)

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Chiromancy

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the prediction/divination of the future by reading the lines on palm

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MB.Ch.B

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mEDICINAE Baccalaureus Chirurgiae Baccalaureus

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aesthet-

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feeling

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alg-

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pain

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arth-

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joint

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cardi-

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heart

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cephal-

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head

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crani-

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skull

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cyt-

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cell

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encephalo-

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brain

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enter-

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intestine

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gastr-

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stomach

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haem-

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blood

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hepat-

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liver

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iatr-

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physician/doctor/healer

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leuk-

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white

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lip-

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fat

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melan-

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black

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my-

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muscle

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myel-

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bne marrow, spinal cord

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nephr-

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kidney

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neur-

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nerve

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odyn-

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pain

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ophthalm

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eye

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oste-

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bone

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ot-

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ear

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paed-

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child

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pneum-

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lung

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pod-

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foot

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rhin-

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nose

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somat-

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body

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scler-

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hard

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sten-

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narrow

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tachy-

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rapid

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tom-

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cut

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troph-

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nourish, grow

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-oma

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swelling, tumour, diseased condition of

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-a, -ia

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condition of

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-ium

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membrane, tissue

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-itis

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inflammation

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-osis

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non-inflammatory abnormal condition

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-pathy

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disease of or treatment of disease of

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-tomy

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surgical cutting of

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ectomy

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excision of

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-meter

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for measuring

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-graph

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for recording

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-rrhoea

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abnormal discharge, flow

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-therapy

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treatment of

53
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where did pupil of the eye come from

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reflection of looking at pupil looked like a little doll (pupilla)

54
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Penicilin

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culture of moulds by Sir Alexander Fleming, which were observed to inhibit growth

55
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hystera

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uterus

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atrophy

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degeneration of cells

57
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toxaemia

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condition of blood poisoning by toxins

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melanoma

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cancer/tumours of the skin

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neuropathy

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disease of one/more peripheral nerves

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anaemic

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blood with an iron deficiency

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carcinogenic

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having potential to cause cancer

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myograph

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device that records he force produced by muscle under contraction

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mastectomy

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excision of breast(s)

64
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neuralgia

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intense intermittent pain along the course of a nerve

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hydrocephalus

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abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid

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megalocephaly

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abnormally large brain due to development disoder

67
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arteriosclerosis

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narrowing of one or more blood vessels

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epicranium

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collection of structures covering the cranium

69
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leukocyte

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white blood cells

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sclerosis

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stiffening of a structure

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angiostenosis

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narrowing of blood vessels

72
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neuroo

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nervous system

73
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poliomyelitis

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highly infectious viral disease

74
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tachycardia

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abnormally rapid heart rate

75
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necrocytotoxin

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toxin that causes death of cells

76
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angiocarditis

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inflammaion of the heart and blood vessels

77
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endorhinitis

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inflamattion of nasal passage

78
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hypnology

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study of sleep and hypnosis

79
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odontology

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study of teeth

80
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dactylic

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finger

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histogenesis

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differentiation of cells into specialized tissues and organs

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glossalgia

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condition of the tongue

83
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nostalgia

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homesickness

84
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otitis

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inflamation of the ear

85
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polyglot

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multilingual

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pantophagous

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omnivorous

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myositis

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inflammation of the muscle

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neurodermatites

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inflammation of skin caused by nervous disorder

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anaesthesia

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without feeling

90
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otorrhea

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discharge of the ear

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anorexia

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without appetite (orexis)

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endogenous disease

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disease caused or originating within an organism/tissue or a cell

93
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exogenous

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growing or originating from outside an organism/tissue/cell

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antigen

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toxin/foreign substance which induced an immune response in the body (esp production of antibodies)

95
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periodontal

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gum disease

96
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enterozoon

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animal parasite in the intestines of a human

97
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haematozoon

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general blood parasites

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