Unit 6 and 7 Flashcards
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angi/o
A
vessel
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algesia
A
sense of pain
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arteri/o
A
artery
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cardiac arrest
A
stopped heart
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dactyl/o
A
fingers
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defibrillation
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heart shocked to a regular heartbeat
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embolism
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obstruction of a blood vessel
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embolus
A
foreign particle in the bloodstream
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ethesia
A
feeling sensation
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fibrillation
A
very fast, irregular heartbeat
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myel/o
A
spinal cord, bone marrow
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phas/o
A
speech
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phleb/o
A
vein
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plas/o
A
formation
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thrombosis
A
blood clost occluding a vessel
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thrombus
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a blood clot
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a-, an-
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absent, without
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brady-
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slow
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dys-
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bad, difficult, painful
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macro-
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large
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micro-
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small, very small
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tachy-
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fast
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poly-
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many
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sym-, syn-
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together
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-orrhexis
rupture, bursting apart
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-tripsy
rubbing, crushing
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-emia
blood
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atrophy
observable sign of disease
wasting away, or shrinking of tissues
an organ
or whole body
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edema
accumulated excess fluid in the tissues of the lower estremities may be a condition of
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pulse
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respiration
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temperature
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acute
sharp, severe, having rapid onset and short course, not chronic
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central
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chronic
long, drawn out
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generalized
involving the whole body or many aeas at the same time
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localized
small area of the body
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paroxysmal
sudden periodic attack or recurrence of symptoms of disease, a fit or convulsion of any kind
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peripheral
outer surface of the body, away from the center
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anti-
against
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chlor/o
green
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erythr/o
red
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melan/o
black
43
xanth/o
yellow
44
pyret/o
fever
45
malaise
vague sensation of not feeling well, or feeling ill at ease
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nausea
sickness of stomach with a desire to vomit
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anorexia
loss of appetite
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dyspnea
difficult breathing
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tinnitus
jingling ot tinkling sound in the ear
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vertigo
sensation of turning arund in a space or of objects moving
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active
active treatment aims for a cure
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palliative
relieves bothersom symptoms and makes the patient comfortable
51
prophylactic
treatment aimed at preventing a disease
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systemic
treatment of constitutional symptoms
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prodrome
running before a disease, a symptom or group of symptoms that occur a few hours or a few days before the onset of the disease are called prodromal symptoms
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prognosis
prediction of the course and outcome of a disease
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syndrome
a group of symptoms occuring together chracterizing a specific disease
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morbitity
disease state
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mortality
state of being mortal and therefore subject to death
