Other Terms Flashcards
Anastomosis:
- Connection between two blood vessels.
2. Surgical joining of two ducts, vessels or bowel segments.
Adhesion:
Band of scar tissue binding surfaces that are normally separate from each other.
Cauterize:
Process of burning tissue by thermal heat, electricity, laser, or dry ice.
Inflammation:
- Protective response of body tissues to infection or allergy.
- redness, swelling, heat, pain
Sepsis:
- Inflammatory response to infection.
* fever, elevated heart/respiratory rate, low blood pressure
Chondr/o/oma
Tissue/tumor = a tumor composed of cartilage.
Hist/o/lysis
Tissue/separation, destruction, loosening (of)
Cyt/o/meter
Cell/measuring or counting instrument (of cells)
Nucle/ar
Nucleus/pertaining to
Anter/ior
Front/toward
Caud/ad
Tail/toward
Dist/al
Farthest/pertaining to
Dors/al
Back/pertaining to
Infer/ior
Below, lower/pertaining to
Later/al
Side/pertaining to
Medi/al
Middle/pertaining to
Poster/ior
Rear, tail/pertaining to
Proxim/al
Nearest/nearest to point of attachment
Super/ior
Above/pertaining to
Ventr/al
Belly/pertaining to
Medi/ad
Middle/toward
Hist/o/logist
Tissue/specialist
Cyt/o/logy
Cell/study of
Cyt/o/lysis
Cell/separation, destruction, dissolution of
