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