Medical Terms 10

Question 1

Agnosia:

Answer 1

loss of ability to recognize objcts, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss

Question 2

Akinesia:

Answer 2

loss or impairment of the power of voluntary movement

Question 3

Analgesia:

Answer 3

inability to feel pain

Question 4

Bronchoscopy:

Answer 4

a procedure that allows your doctor to look inside your lungs’ airway through a thin viewing instrument called a bronchoscope

Question 5

Carcinoma:

Answer 5

type or cancer that develops from epithelial cells, begins in the skin on in the tissues that line or cover body organs, ex. breast, colon, liver, lung, pancreas

Question 6

Chondralgia:

Answer 6

pain in cartilage

Question 7

Gangrene:

Answer 7

the decay or death of an organ or tissue caused by a lack of blood supply, a compication resulting from infectious or inflammatory processes, injury or degenerative changes associated with chronic disease

Question 8

Myopathy:

Answer 8

any of various abnormal conditions or diseases of the muscular tissues, especially one involving skeletal muscle

Question 9

Purulent:

Answer 9

containing, discharging, or causing the production of pus

Question 10

Sanguinal fluid:

Answer 10

containing or relating to both blood and the liquid part of blood (serum), refers to fluids collected from or leaving the body