Medical Terminology Flashcards
To draw away from the median line of the body.
Abduct
A cut or scrape that typically isn’t serious.
Abrasion
A tender, fluid filled pocket that forms in tissue, usually due to an infection. Localized collection of pus buried in tissues, organs, or confined spaces.
Abscess
Socket in the pelvis within which the head of the femur fits.
Acetabulum
Shoulder collarbone Junction.
Acromioclavicular joint
Signifies a condition that begins abruptly, and is sometimes severe, but the duration is short. Having a short and relatively severe course.
Acute
To draw toward/inward to the median line of the body.
Adduct
A band of scar tissue that joins normally separated internal body structures.
Adhesion
The circumstances whereby ace sensation such as pain or touch, is experienced at a point remote from that at which the stimulus occurs.
Allesthesia
A connection between two vessels.
Anastomosis
Specialist who administers anesthetics to a patient before being treated.
Anesthesiologist
Pain in the chest related to the heart that comes and goes.
Angina
An x-ray imaging, taken, or viewed from front to back.
Anteroposterior
Joint pain.
Arthralgias
A minimal invasive diagnostic treatment procedure used for conditions of a joint. Usually a small, lighted topic tube ((orthoscope)), which is inserted into the joint through a small incision in the joint.
Arthroscopy
