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Medical Terms Prt 2 Flashcards

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Prenatal

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Time and events before birth

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Perinatal

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Time and events during birth

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Postnatal

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Time and events after birth

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Ab

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Away (abduction)

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Dys

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Bad difficult painful

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Hyper

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Excessive or increased

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Inter

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Between or among (interstitial - between tissue)

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Sub

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Under, less, below (subcostal - below ribs)

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Axilla

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Armpit

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Ad

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Toward

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Eu

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Good, normal (euthryoid)

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Hypo

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Deficient

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Intra

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Within or inside (intramuscular - within muscle)

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Super / supra

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Above, excessive (supracostal - above/outside ribs)

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Otorhinolaryngology

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Study of ears, nose and throat

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Arterio

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Artery

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Athero

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Plaque or fatty substance

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Arthro

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Joint, arthralgia

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Ectomy

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Surgical removal

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Ostomy

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Surgical creation of an artificial opening to body surface

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Otomy

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Cutting or surgical incision

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Fissure

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Groove or crack like sore of skin, normal folds in brain

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Fistula

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An abnormal passage between two internal organs due to surgery, injury or draining of an abcess

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Ileum

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Longest and last portion of the small intestines

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Ilium

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Part of hip bone

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Infection

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Invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism. Localized or systemic. Fever, redness, heat, swelling, wound exudate

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Inflammation

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Localized response to an injury or destruction of tissues. Redness, swelling , heat and pain

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Laceration

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Torn or jagged wound or accidental cut wound

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Lesion

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Pathologic change of the tissue due to disease or injury

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Lesion

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Pathologic change of tissue due to disease or injury

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Mucous

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Mucous membranes that line the body

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Mucus

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Fluid secreted by mucous membranes

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Myco (mycosis)

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Fungus (abnormal disease caused by fungus)

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Myelo

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Bone marrow spinal cord

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Myo

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Muscle

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Ologist

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Specialist

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Oloygy

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Study of

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Palpation

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Technique used to feel texture, size, consistency and location of certain body parts

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Palpitation

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Pounding or racing heart

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Prostate

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Male gland that lies under urinary bladder and surrounds the urethra

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Prostrate

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To collapse and be lying flat or to be overcome with exhaustion

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Pyelo

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Renal pelvis

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Pyo

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Pus

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Pyro

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Fever or fire

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Sign

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Objective evidence of a disease. Can be evaluated or measured by others and the patient. Fever,blood prrssure, heart rate

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Symptom

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Subjective evidence of a disease. Evaluated or measured only by the patient. Pain headache

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Syndrome

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A set of signs and symptoms that occur together as a part of a specific disease process

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Diagnosis

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Identification of a disease

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Differential diagnosis

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Attempt to determine which one of several diseases can be producing the signs and symptoms

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Prognosis

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Prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disorder

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Acute condition

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Rapid onset, a severe course and a relatively short duration

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A chronic condition

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Condition of long duration, may be controlled, but is rarely cured

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Remission

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Temporary, partial or complete disappearance of the symptoms of a disease without having achieved a cure.

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