UNIT 2 Assessment Flashcards
1
Q
Benign
A
Safe, non-cancerous
2
Q
Diagnosis
A
What the clinician thinks the patient has
3
Q
Eti/o
A
Cause, how something came to be
4
Q
-gnosis
A
to know
5
Q
Hernia
A
Something that sticks out where it shouldn’t
6
Q
Ischemia
A
Without blood flow
7
Q
Lesion
A
Diseased tissue
8
Q
Lith/o
A
Stone
9
Q
Malignant
A
Dangerous, cancerous
10
Q
Morbidity
A
Risk of being sick
11
Q
Morph/o
A
Change
12
Q
Mortality
A
Risk of dying
13
Q
Necr/o
A
Dead
14
Q
-osis
A
Condition
15
Q
Path/o
A
Disease (literally, suffering)
16
Q
Plas/o
A
Formation
17
Q
Prognosis
A
prediction of what will happen to the patient
18
Q
Septic
A
Infected with bacteria
19
Q
Trop/o
A
Moving towards or acting on
20
Q
-trophy
A
Nourishment
21
Q
Xen/o
A
Foreign
