Vocabulary Part 2 Flashcards
Ominous
Significantly important and dangerous.
Ongoing
Continuous.
Oral
Given through or affecting the mouth.
Overt
Obvious, easily observed.
Parameter
A characteristic for constant factor, limit.
Paroxysmal
Beginning suddenly or abruptly; convulsive.
Patent
Open.
Pathogenic
Causing or able to cause disease.
Pathology
Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality.
Posterior
Located behind; in the back.
Potent
Producing a strong effect.
Potential
Capable of occurring or likely to occur.
Precaution
Preventative measure.
Precipitous
Rapid, uncontrolled.
Predispose
To make more susceptible or more likely to occur.
Pre-existing
Already present.
Primary
First or most significant.
Priority
Of great importance.
Prognosis
The anticipated or expected course or outcome.
Rationale
The underlying reason.
Recur
To occur again.
Renal
Of or relating to the kidneys.
Respiration
Inhalation and exhalation of air.
Restrict
To limit.
Retain
To hold or keep.
Site
Location.
Status
Condition.
Strict
Stringent, exact, complete.
Sublingual
Under the tongue.
Supplement
To take in addition to or to complete.
Suppress
To stop or subdue.
Symmetric (symmetrical)
Being equal or the same in size, shape, and relative position.
Symptom
An indication of a problem.
Syndrome
Group of symptoms that, when occurring together, reflect a specific disease or disorder.
Therapeutic
Of or relating to the treatment of a disease or a disorder.
Transdermal
Crossing through the skin.
Transmission
Transfer, such as of a disease, from one person to another.
Trauma
Injury, wound.
Triage
Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient’s condition and likelihood of benefit from the treatment.
Untoward
Adverse or negative.
Urinate
Excrete for expel urine.
Vascular
Of or relating to blood vessels.
Verbal
Spoken, using words.
Virus
Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease.
Vital
Essential.
Void
Excrete, or expel urine.
Volume
Amount of space occupied by a fluid.
