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Chapter one: Intro To Med Term Flashcards

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Excessive, increased

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Hyper

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Bad, difficult, painful

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Dys

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Abnormal Enlargement

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Megaly

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Surgical removal

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Ectomy

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Abnormal condition or disease

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Osis

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Abnormal softening

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Malacia

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Deficient, decreased

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Hypo

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Inflammation

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Itis

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Tissue death

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Necrosis

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Bleeding, bursting forth

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rrhage

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Surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface

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Ostomy

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Cutting, Surgical incision

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Otomy

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Surgical repair

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Plasty

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Surgical suturing

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Rrhaphy

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Visual examination

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scopy

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Abnormal narrowing

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Stenosis

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Rupture

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rrhexis

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Abnormal hardening

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Sclerosis

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Flow or discharge

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rrhea

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White blood cell

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Leukocyte

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Prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disorder

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Prognosis

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Swelling cause by an abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells, tissues, or cavities of the body

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Edema

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Rapid onset

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Acute

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Turning the palm of the hand upward

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Supination

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Examination procedure / hands used inside body cavity to feel size texture etc

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Palpation

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Fluid, such as pus, that leaks out of an infected wound

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Exudate

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Pathologic tissue change

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Lesion

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Pounding heart

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Palpitation

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Torn or jagged wound, or an accidental cut wound

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Laceration

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A set of signs and symptoms

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Syndrome

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Any acute, inflammatory, pus-forming bacterial skin infection

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Pyoderma

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Blue

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Cyan

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Grey

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Poli

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Arythr

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Red

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Leuk

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White

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Neur

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Nerve

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My

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Muscle

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Myel

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Spinal cord

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Arthr

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Joint

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Enter

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Small intestine

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Crani

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Skull

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Tonsill

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Tonsils

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Cardi

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Heart ❤️

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Path

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Disease

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Ology

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Study of

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Algia

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Pain and suffering

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Liver

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Hepat

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Artery

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Arteri

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Surgical puncture to remove fluid for diagnostic procedures

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Centesis

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Blood vessel

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Angi

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Picture or record

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Gram

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Birth

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Nat

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Before

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Pre

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Surrounding

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Peri

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After

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Post

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Away from, negative, absence

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Ab

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Right side

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Dextr

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Out of, outside, away from

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Ex

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Large, abnormal size, long

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Macro

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Large, great

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Mega

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Toward, to, in the direction of

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Ad

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Left side

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Sinistr

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In, into, not without

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In

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Small

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Micro

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Scanty, few

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Olig

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Under, less, below

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Sub

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Larynx or throat

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Laryng

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Good,normal, well or easy

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Eu

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Nose

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Rhin/o

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Ear

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Ot/o

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Ears,nose and throat

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ENT

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Stone

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Lith

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Can mean - surgical incision for removal of a stone or exam position in which patient is lying on back with feet and legs supported in stirrups

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Lithotomy

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Appendix

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Appendic

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Bones of the fingers and toes

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Phalanges

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Within

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End

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Plaque or fatty substance

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Ather

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Tumor

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Oma

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Colon

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Col

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Groove or crack-like sore of the skin

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Fissure

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Abnormal passage, usually between two organs or leading from an organ to the surface of the body

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Fistula

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Longest portion of the small intestine

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Ileum

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Part of the hip bone

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Ilium

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