Chapter 6: terms Flashcards
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-ectasis, ectasia
dilation, widening
-> cholangiectasis: cholangi/o means bile duct (vessel). bile duct obstruction may cause cholangiectasis
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-emesis
vomiting
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-pepsia
digestion
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-phagia
eating, swallowing
-> polyphagia: excessive appetite and uncontrolled eating
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-plasty
surgical repair
dysphagia
difficulty swallowing
dysplasia
abnormal formation
dysphasia
abnormal speech
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- ptysis
spitting
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-rrhage, rrhagia
bursting forth (of blood) -> hemorrhage
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-rrhaphy
suture
-> herniorraphy
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-rrhea
flow. discharge
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-spasm
involuntary contraction of muscle
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-stasis
stopping, controlling
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-stenosis
narrowing, tightening
-> pyloric stenosis
hemoptysis
spitting up blood from the respiratory tract, a sign of bleeding and disease within the bronchial tubes and lungs
hematemesis
vomiting blood, a sign of bleeding from the upper part of the GI tract
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-tresia
opening
