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Medical Words Flashcards

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Abscess

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Cavity filled with pus

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Acute

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Of sudden onset; having a short course

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Agonal

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Pertaining to the struggling seen just before death

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Aspiration

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To remove fluid or gas from a cavity by suction

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Autoclave

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Machine that sterilizes medical instruments and materials by use of steam under pressure

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Auscultation

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Act of listening for sound within the body, usually with a stethoscope

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Alopecia

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Loss of hair from an area in which hair is normally present

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Anorexia

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Lack of appetite

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Anesthesia

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State of being without sensation, especially to pain. May or may not be accompanied by unconsciousness (general vs local)

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Allergy

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Hypersensitivity acquired through exposure to a particular substance (allergen)

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Antibody

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Protein produced by lymphoid tissue in response to exposure to an invading organism or foreign substance

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Biopsy

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Removal of a small amount of tissue from the body for examination, usually microscopic

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Brachycephalic

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Having a short wide head, usually used to describe dogs with shorten faces. (such as bulldogs boxers, Boston, terriers, pugs, etc.)

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Benign

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Not malignant; with a favorable prognosis

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Barren

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Enable to bear offspring; sterile

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Breach

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Presentation of the fetal buttocks and tail in the birth canal during labour with the hind limbs, retained or extended, beneath the fetal body

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Bolus

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Large volume of fluid rapidly giving intravenously

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Bloat

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Gaseous distension of the stomach or cecum

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Castrate

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To destroy surgically or remove the testes

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Colic

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Severe often fluctuating pain in the abdomen, caused by intestinal gas or obstruction in the intestines

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Convultion

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Violent, involuntary contraction of the Sketo muscles originating from a neurological disorder

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Cancer

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A Malignant tumor

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Centrifuge

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Machine that spins solution at very high speeds, so as to separate the lighter portions from the heavier portions

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Congenital

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Present at birth

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Culture and sensitivity

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A culture: tests, growth of microorganisms on living tissue cells, or an artificial medium.
A sensitivity test : check to see what kind of medicine such as an antibiotic will work best to treat the illness or infection

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Chronic

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Persisting over a long Period.

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Copulation

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Sexual union; coitus

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Catheter

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A tubular instrument used to withdraw fluid from the body, such as a body cavity, or the urinary bladder, or to administer fluids, such as into a vein artery or body cavity

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Cautery

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Application of a cold or hot instrument, electric current, or corrosive substance to stop haemorrhage or destroyed tissue

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Declaw

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Surgical excision of the claws. Aka Onychectomy

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Debride

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Surgical removal of foreign matter, and devitalized tissues from a wound

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Dilation

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Action of stretching to make bigger

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Dolichocephalic

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Having a long head such as in collies, greyhounds, etc.

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Defecation

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Natural evacuation of faecal material from the rectum

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Emesis

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Act of vomiting

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Enema

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Liquid injected into the rectum to stimulate bowel movement

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Enucleation

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Removal of the eyeball, after cutting the muscles and optic nerve

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Elizabethan collar

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Funnel shaped sheet of cardboard or plastic placed around an animals neck to prevent self mutilation

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Edema

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Accumulation of excessive fluid in the spaces between cells of tissue

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Emaciation

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State of extreme weight loss; abnormally, thin and weak

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Epilepsy

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Disturbance of brain function, characterized by intermittent periods of seizure activity, loss of consciousness, or other neurologic abnormalities

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Euthanasia

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Painless death

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Embolism

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Set an obstruction of a blood vessel, by a clot or foreign material brought to the area by the flow of blood

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Gestation

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Period Of embryonic and foetal development from fertilization until birth; period of pregnancy

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Gravid

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Pregnant; containing developing young

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Hernia

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Protrusion of an organ or tissue through an abdominal opening

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Idiopathic

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Meeting of closely related animals with similar genetic constitution, such as mother to son or brother to sister

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Incontinent

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Unable to control, urination or defecation

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Inflammation

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Localized tissue response to injury, characterized by heat, swelling, redness, pain, and loss of function

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Intact

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State of being sexually whole and yet not spayed or castrated

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Intubate

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To insert a tube into a body canal or a hollow organ, such as the trachea or stomach

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Jaundice

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Yellow discolouration of the skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile pigments; icterus

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Lance

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To cut open with a pointed knife or scalpel

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Malignant

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Tending to become progressively, worst and result in death often used to define potentially fatal tumors

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Mortality

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Death rate ratio of total deaths in a given population, (may or may not be limited to a particular disease) to the total number of animals in a given population

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Morbidity

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Ratio of sick to healthy animals in a population

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Necropsy

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Examination of a body after death necropsy is preferred term for examination of animal cadavers, while autopsy is the preferred term for examination of human cadavers

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Neuter

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To castrate or spay an animal, an animal who is gonads have been removed

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Prolapse

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Protrusion, falling down or sinking of an organ or part of an organ often implies eversion of an organ through normal body opening

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Purulent

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Consisting of, or containing pus

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Palpation

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Using the hands to feel body parts using physical examination

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Peristalsis

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Contraction by the smooth muscles of the alimentary Tract, or other tubular organs to propel its contents

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Paturition

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The act of giving birth

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Petechia

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Pinpoint round haemorrhages on the skin or on a serosal surface petechiae are smaller than ecchymoses (bruising)

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Rigor mortis

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Stiffening of a dead body

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Splint

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Rigid or flexible, appliance, used to stabilize or prevent movement of a part

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Suture

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Material used to close a wound or tie off a bleeding vessel, type of fibrous union of tissue in which the opposed surfaces are closely united

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Sprain

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Injury, but not rupture of ligaments supporting a joint

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Spay

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Ovariohysterectomy; to remove the ovaries and uterus of an animal

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Sepsis

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Presence of microorganisms or their toxins in the blood

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Therapeutics

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Study of the treatment of disease with the use of drugs

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Toxicology

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Study of poisons and other toxic substances

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Tumor

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A swelling, or pathological in enlargement of tissues; a neoplasm

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Turbidity

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The cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally in invisible to the naked eye

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Vaccine

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A suspension of killed, or a attenuated microorganisms, that when introduced to the body stimulates an immune response against that microorganism

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Zoonosis

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A disease of animals that can be transmitted to people, under natural conditions

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