Medical Terms 6

Question 1

Hypertrophy:

Answer 1

the increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells

Question 2

Insomnia:

Answer 2

is a sleep disorder that is characterized by difficulty falling and/or staying asleep

Question 3

Ischemia:

Answer 3

restriction in blood supply to tissues, causing a shortage of oxygen and glucose needed for that area

Question 4

Korsakoff’s Syndrome:

Answer 4

chronic memory disorders caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1), brain disorder associated with heavy alcohol consumption

Question 5

Leukocytopenia:

Answer 5

decrease in the number of white blood cells

Question 6

Myelitis:

Answer 6

infection or the inflammation of white matter or gray matter of spinal cord

Question 7

Neuralgia:

Answer 7

a stabbing, burning, and often quite severe pain that occurs along a damaged nerve

Question 8

Neuritis:

Answer 8

inflammation of one or more nerve

Question 9

Oophorectomy:

Answer 9

surgical procedure to remove one or both of your ovaries

Question 10

Osteochondritis:

Answer 10

joint condition in which a piece of cartilage, along with a thin layer of the bone beneath it, comes loose from the end of a bone, most often in young men, particularly after an injury to a joint, most common in the knee but can occur in other joints