Chapter 16

Question 1

Apollo

Answer 1

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)

Question 2

Asclepius

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Hippocrates

Answer 3

Father of Medicine

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

Question 4

surgery

Answer 4

cheir (hand) and ergon (work)

Question 5

Chiromancy

Answer 5

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

Question 6

MB.Ch.B

Answer 6

mEDICINAE Baccalaureus Chirurgiae Baccalaureus

Question 7

aesthet-

Answer 7

feeling

Question 8

alg-

Answer 8

pain

Question 9

arth-

Answer 9

joint

Question 10

cardi-

Answer 10

heart

Question 11

cephal-

Answer 11

head

Question 12

crani-

Answer 12

skull

Question 13

cyt-

Answer 13

cell

Question 14

encephalo-

Answer 14

brain

Question 15

enter-

Answer 15

intestine

Question 16

gastr-

Answer 16

stomach

Question 17

haem-

Answer 17

blood

Question 18

hepat-

Answer 18

liver

Question 19

iatr-

Answer 19

physician/doctor/healer

Question 20

leuk-

Answer 20

white

Question 21

lip-

Answer 21

fat

Question 22

melan-

Answer 22

black

Question 23

my-

Answer 23

muscle

Question 24

myel-

Answer 24

bne marrow, spinal cord

Question 25

nephr-

Answer 25

kidney

Question 26

neur-

Answer 26

nerve

Question 27

odyn-

Answer 27

pain

Question 28

ophthalm

Answer 28

eye

Question 29

oste-

Answer 29

bone

Question 30

ot-

Answer 30

ear

Question 31

paed-

Answer 31

child

Question 32

pneum-

Answer 32

lung

Question 33

pod-

Answer 33

foot

Question 34

rhin-

Answer 34

nose

Question 35

somat-

Answer 35

body

Question 36

scler-

Answer 36

hard

Question 37

sten-

Answer 37

narrow

Question 38

tachy-

Answer 38

rapid

Question 39

tom-

Answer 39

cut

Question 40

troph-

Answer 40

nourish, grow

Question 41

-oma

Answer 41

swelling, tumour, diseased condition of

Question 42

-a, -ia

Answer 42

condition of

Question 43

-ium

Answer 43

membrane, tissue

Question 44

-itis

Answer 44

inflammation

Question 45

-osis

Answer 45

non-inflammatory abnormal condition

Question 46

-pathy

Answer 46

disease of or treatment of disease of

Question 47

-tomy

Answer 47

surgical cutting of

Question 48

ectomy

Answer 48

excision of

Question 49

-meter

Answer 49

for measuring

Question 50

-graph

Answer 50

for recording

Question 51

-rrhoea

Answer 51

abnormal discharge, flow

Question 52

-therapy

Answer 52

treatment of

Question 53

where did pupil of the eye come from

Answer 53

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

Question 54

Penicilin

Answer 54

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

Question 55

hystera

Answer 55

uterus

Question 56

atrophy

Answer 56

degeneration of cells

Question 57

toxaemia

Answer 57

condition of blood poisoning by toxins

Question 58

melanoma

Answer 58

cancer/tumours of the skin

Question 59

neuropathy

Answer 59

disease of one/more peripheral nerves

Question 60

anaemic

Answer 60

blood with an iron deficiency

Question 61

carcinogenic

Answer 61

having potential to cause cancer

Question 62

myograph

Answer 62

device that records he force produced by muscle under contraction

Question 63

mastectomy

Answer 63

excision of breast(s)

Question 64

neuralgia

Answer 64

intense intermittent pain along the course of a nerve

Question 65

hydrocephalus

Answer 65

abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid

Question 66

megalocephaly

Answer 66

abnormally large brain due to development disoder

Question 67

arteriosclerosis

Answer 67

narrowing of one or more blood vessels

Question 68

epicranium

Answer 68

collection of structures covering the cranium

Question 69

leukocyte

Answer 69

white blood cells

Question 70

sclerosis

Answer 70

stiffening of a structure

Question 71

angiostenosis

Answer 71

narrowing of blood vessels

Question 72

neuroo

Answer 72

nervous system

Question 73

poliomyelitis

Answer 73

highly infectious viral disease

Question 74

tachycardia

Answer 74

abnormally rapid heart rate

Question 75

necrocytotoxin

Answer 75

toxin that causes death of cells

Question 76

angiocarditis

Answer 76

inflammaion of the heart and blood vessels

Question 77

endorhinitis

Answer 77

inflamattion of nasal passage

Question 78

hypnology

Answer 78

study of sleep and hypnosis

Question 79

odontology

Answer 79

study of teeth

Question 80

dactylic

Answer 80

finger

Question 81

histogenesis

Answer 81

differentiation of cells into specialized tissues and organs

Question 82

glossalgia

Answer 82

condition of the tongue

Question 83

nostalgia

Answer 83

homesickness

Question 84

otitis

Answer 84

inflamation of the ear

Question 85

polyglot

Answer 85

multilingual

Question 86

pantophagous

Answer 86

omnivorous

Question 87

myositis

Answer 87

inflammation of the muscle

Question 88

neurodermatites

Answer 88

inflammation of skin caused by nervous disorder

Question 89

anaesthesia

Answer 89

without feeling

Question 90

otorrhea

Answer 90

discharge of the ear

Question 91

anorexia

Answer 91

without appetite (orexis)

Question 92

endogenous disease

Answer 92

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

Question 93

exogenous

Answer 93

growing or originating from outside an organism/tissue/cell

Question 94

antigen

Answer 94

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

Question 95

periodontal

Answer 95

gum disease

Question 96

enterozoon

Answer 96

animal parasite in the intestines of a human

Question 97

haematozoon

Answer 97

general blood parasites