med terms 5 Flashcards
Hern/ia
Entrails condition
Hepat/megal/y
Enlarged liver
Hydr/o/peri/ton/eum
Fluid in the stretched around
Hyper/chlor/hydr/ia
Excessive hydrochloric acid
Hypo/motil/ity
Deficient movement
Hyper/secret/ion
Excessive setting apart or separation
Hyper/troph/y
More than normal growth
Hypo/chlor/hydr/ia
Deficient hydrochloric acid
Hyper/motil/ity
Excessive movement
Im/pact/ion
Press together
In/carcer/ation
Imprisionment
In/clus/ion
Closed or shut in
In/continence
Not holding
In/volut/ion
An inner rolling or rolling within
Leio/my/o/sarc/oma
Smooth muscle fleshy tumor
Les/ion
An injury
Lig/ation
Tied or bound
Lip/o/sarc/oma
Fat fleshy tumor
Lip/oma
Fatty tumor
Lymph/angi/oma
Lymph vessel tumor
Lymph/o/sarc/oma
Lymph fleshy tumor
Lymph/oid
Resembling lymph, lymph like
Malign/ancy
Bad action, evil action
Medull/ary
Of the pith or inner substance
Melan/osis
Black condition
Mes/o/thel/I/oma
Middle-cellular tissue tumor
Meta/bol/ism
Thrust beyond
Meta/sta/tic
Pertaining to placing beyond, spreading
My/o/blast/oma
Muscle bud tumor
Myel/oma
Bone marrow tumor
Necr/osis
Dead condition
Neo/plas/m
A new growth
Neur/o/fibr/oma
Nerve and fiber tumor
Non/fus/ion
Lack of joining
Ob/stip/ation
Pressing completely or totally
Oc/clus/ion
Close completely
Opac/ity
Condition of darkness
Oste/oma
Bone tumor
Papill/ary
Nipple-like
Papill/oma
Nipple like tumor
Par/en/chym/atous
Relating to pour in beside
Par/esis
Action of letting go or letting fall at the side
Para/sym/path/etic
Feeling with beside or beyond
Path/ogen/ic
Production of suffering or disease
Peri/ton/eal
Stretched around
Petechiae
Contagious disease spot
Pica
As nondiscrimating as a magpie
Plasm/a
Formation
Plate/let/s
Little plates
Poly/dips/ia
Much thirst
Poly/p
Many feet
Pre/malign/ant
Before malignancy
Pro/lap/se
Falling forward
Pro/trus/ion
Thrusting forth
Proct/algia
Pain in the rectum
Prol/i/fer/ation
Bearing offspring
Pt/osis
Falling condition
Ptyal/ism
Action pertaining to spit
Pyl/or/ic
Pertaining to gate keeping
Rupt/ure
Act of breaking
Scirrh/ous
Resembling hardness
Sclera/osis
Hard condition
Sen/ile
Having to do with age
Sin/us
A fold
Squam/ous
Scale like
Sta/sis
Condition of standing or stoppage
Strangul/ation
A squeezing or construction
Strict/ure
Compression
Sym/path/etic
Pertaining to feeling with
Sym/path/ic/o
Sympathetic cell bud tumor
Blast/oma
Sympathetic cell bud tumor
Terat/oma
Monstrous tumor
Thromb/osis
Clotting condition
Thromb/us
A clot
Tors/ion
A twisting
Troph/ic
Pertaining to nourishment
Tum/or
A swelling
Tympan/ite/s
Drumlike; tight as a drum
Xer/o/stom/ia
Dry mouth condition
-/o/tom/y
Cutting
-cent/esis
Pricking
Tran/sect/ion
Cutting across
-ec/tom/y
Cutting out
Ex/cis/ion of les/ion
Surgical removal in which the tissue to be removed lies within a relatively narrow area
Re/section
Cut back
Radic/al ex/cis/ion
Root cutting out
Bi/ops/y
Seeing life, viewing life
Dis/articul/ation
Joint apart
In/ject/ion
Throw or force in
Trans/fus/ion
Pour across
Im/plant/ation
Plant into
In/sert/ion
Act of putting or setting something into something else
Cath/et/er/ization
Insertion of cath for introduction or withdrawal of fluids
In/tub/ation
Insertion of a tube, usually for the passage of air or fluids
Endo/scop/y
Observe within
-plasty
Repair
Graft
Transplantation of a piece of skin, bone, or other living tissue from one body, or place on a body, to another
-stom/y
Making a mouth
-ana/stomy
Make a mouth again
Fistul/ization
Surgical creation of an opening into a hollow organ, or of an opening between two structures that were not previously connected
Open reduction
Lead back
-pexy
Hang up
-desis
Meaning joining or trying
Fus/ion
Sticking together
Stabilization
To make steady or firm
Trans/plant/ation
Planting across
-clas/is
Breaking
-tripsy, trity
Indicating the act of crushing
-lysis
Indicating loosening, freeing, division of adhesion
-rrhaphy
Suturing
Conversion of position
In case the fetus needs to be turned in uterus
Obstetric extraction
In the event the mother needs assistance in expelling the fetus from the uterus
Version
A variety of internal an external manipulations to ease or expedite delivery
Application of or delivery by forceps
The use of a tong-like instrument designed to extract the fetus by the head from the birth canal
Closed reduction
Fractures that can be corrected with manipulation without the need for incision to expose the fracture
-tasia, -tasis
Act of enlarging a passage or hollow organ by stretching
Melan/oma
Black tumor
Hyper/plas/ia
Excessive formation
Thromb/o/cyt/e
Clotting cell
