vocabulary Flashcards
Anisocoria
Unequal pupils
S3 sounds like…
Kentucky
Pathognomonic
Sign which is very specific for a particular disease.
The presence of the sign indicates a disease without any doubt.
Achalasia
Esophageal motility disorder.
Lack of peristalsis, incomplete opening of sphincter, increased sphincter tone.
S4 sounds like…
Tennessee
Odynophagia
Painful swallowing
Melena
Black, tarry stool
Etiology
Study of causality
Epidemiology
Study of patterns of diseases
Cor pulmonale
right heart failure secondary to a pulmonary cause
Hyperdontia
Too many teeth
Hypertelorism
Widely separated eyes
Macroglossia
vs. what syndrome’s feature?
Unusually large tongue
vs. the low tone of Down’s syndrome which results in protrusion
Atresia
Condition where an orifice or passageway in the body is absent or closed
anal atresia, esophageal atresia
Philtrum
vertical groove between nose and upper lip
Talipes equinovarus congenita
club feet
coloboma
key-hole iris
results from embryonic fissure defect