Pathology master for exam #3 Flashcards
Prefix meaning uterus.
Hyster
Suffix meaning a process.
Iasis
Results rom the adverse activity of medical personnel.
Iatrogenic
Of unknown cause (example: essential hypertension).
Idiopathic
Any foreign or heterogeneous substance contained in a cell or in any tissue or organ that was not introduced as a result of trauma.
Inclusions
Plant life occurring or adapted for living in a specific environment.
Indigenous flora
The formation of an area of necrosis in a tissue caused by obstruction in the artery supplying the area.
Infarction
The state or condition in which the body or a part of it is invaded by a pathogenic agent that, under favorable conditions, multiplies and produces injurious effects.
Infection
The harboring of animal parasites, especially macroscopic forms, such as ticks or mosquitos.
Infestation
The process of seepage or diffusion into tissue of substances that are not ordinarily present.
Infiltration
A tissue reaction to irritation, infection, or injury marked by localized heat, swelling, redness, pain and sometimes loss of function.
Inflammation
Prefix meaning below.
Infra
A substance that kills insects.
Insecticide
Prefix meaning between.
Inter
Prefix meaning within.
Intra
State of being intoxicated, especially of being poisoned by a drug or toxic substance.
Intoxication
Extravasation of blood within the skull.
Intracranial hemorrhage
A compound consisting of iodine combined with a carrier, such as polyvinylpyrrolidone, often used as a preoperative skin disinfectant.
Iodophores
Reduction in arterial blood supply.
Ischemia
Condition that results when the body part that dies had little blood and remains aseptic and occurs when the arteries but no the veins are obstructed.
Ischemic necrosis
Suffix meaning inflammation of.
Itis
Conditions characterized by excessive concentration of bilirubin in the skin and tissues and deposition of excessive bile pigment in the skin, cornea, body fluids, and mucous membranes with the resulting yellow appearance of the patient.
Jaundice
A tear or town wound.
Laceration
A substance that kills insect larva.
Larvacide
Specific pathological structural or functional changes of both brought about by disease or injury.
Lesion
Disease characterized by the appearance of great numbers of immature and abnormal white blood cells.
Leukemia
Prefix meaning white.
Leuko
Increase in the number of white blood cells in blood.
Leucocytosis
Abnormal reduction in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
Leucopenia
A tumor composed of fatty tissue.
Lipoma
Suffix meaning stone.
Lith
The major organ for detoxification and production of bile.
Liver
Infection caused by germs lodging and multiplying at one point in a tissue and remaining there.
Local infection
Malignancy of lymphoid tissue.
Lymphoma
Suffix meaning to dissolve.
Lysis
Prefix meaning large.
Macro
Prefix meaning bad.
Mal
Suffix meaning softening.
Malacia
A defect or deformity.
Malformation (anomaly)
Prefix meaning breast.
Mast
A forensically trained physician (medical doctor) whose duty is the investigate questionable or unattended deaths.
Medical examiner
The spread of tumor cells from one part of the body to another by blood or lymph.
Metastasis
Temperature above which bacterial growth will not take place, 120 degrees F.
Maximum temperature
A living organism or an object that is capable of transmitting infections by carrying the disease agent on its external body parts or surface.
Mechanical vector
Study of disease to ascertain cause and manner of death.
Medicolegal (forensic) pathology
Prefix meaning great.
Mega
Suffix meaning large.
Megaly
Prefix meaning thick.
Melan
A malignant pigmented mole.
Melanoma
Blood in stool.
Melena
Prefix meaning month.
Men
Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Meningitis
Bacteria that prefer moderate temperatures and develop best at temperatures between 25 degrees C and 40 degrees C.
Mesophile
Replacement of one type of tissue into a form that is nor normally found there.
Metaplasia
Transfer of a disease from its primary site to a distant location.
Metastasize
Prefix meaning small.
Micro
A microorganism that requires very little free oxygen.
Microaerophilic
Scientific study of microorganisms and their effect on other living organisms.
Microbiology
Study of microscopic changes that cells, tissues, and organs undergo as a result of disease.
Microscopic pathology (histopathology)
Temperature below which bacterial growth will not take place, 32 degrees F.
Minimum temperature
Infection caused by two or more organisms.
Mixed infection
Necrotic tissue that is wet as a result of inadequate venous drainage; may be accompanied by the invasion of saprophytic bacteria.
Moist (wet) gangrene
Relative incidence of a disease in the population of number of cases in a given time at a given population.
Morbidity rate
Number of deaths in a given time or place or proportion of deaths to a population.
Mortality rate
A chronic disease of the nervous system characterized by remissions and relapses and by the presence of patches of demyelination associated with sclerosis or hardening, scattered diffusely throughout the gray and white matter of the brain stem and spinal cord.
Multiple sclerosis
Relationship in which organisms or two different species live in close association to the mutual benefit of each.
Mutualism
The branch of science concerned with the study of fungi.
Mycology
Bacteria of the mycoplasma genus that are found in humans and most have no cell wall; the smallest free-living organisms presently known, being intermediate in size between viruses and bacteria.
Mycoplasmas
Inflammation of the spinal cord or the bone marrow.
Myelitis
Prefix meaning muscle.
Myo
Referred to as heart attack. Usually results in damage to the myocardium.
Myocardial infarction
Inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart.
Myocarditis
Prefix meaning mucous.
Myx
