Words Flashcards
Abrupt
Sudden
Abstain
Stay away from something
Access
Enter
Accountable
Responsible
Adhere
Stick together
Adverse
Undesired, harmful
Affect
Impact, influence
Annual
Occurring every year
Apply
To place or to put on
Audible
To be heard, or perceptible
Bilateral
On both sides
Cardiac
Related to the heart
Cast
Hard protective device applied to protect broken bones
Cavity
Opening or empty area
Cease
To end
Compensatory
Offsetting or making up for something
Complication
Undesired problem
Comply
Do as directed
Concave
Rounded inward
Concise
Brief to the point
Consistency
Degree of viscosity
Constrict
To shrink or become smaller
Contingent
Dependent
Contour
Shape or outline
Contract
To reduce in size
Contraindication
Why something is not advisable and should not be done.
Defecate
Expel feces
Deficit
A deficiency or lack of something
Depress
Press downward
Depth
Measure how deep is is something downward from the surface
Deteriorating
Worsening
Device
Tool or piece of equipment
Diagnosis
Identification of injury or disease
Diameter
Distance across the center
Dilate
To enlarge or expand
Dilute
To make a liquid less concentrated
Discrete
Disconnected, Separated ( like the chicken pox lesions)
Distended
Enlarged or swollen. “Distended stomach”
Dysfunction
Abnormal functioning
Elevate
To lift up
Endogenous
Produced within the body
Exacerbate
To make worse or more severe
Excess
Surplus (more than what is needed)
Exogenous
Produced outside of the body
Expand
To increase in size or amount
Exposure
Contact with someone or something
External
Located outside of the body
Fatal
Resulting in death
Fatigue
Extreme tiredness, exhaustion
Flaccid
Limp, lacking tone
Flushed
Reddened appearance
Gaping
Wide open
Gastrointestinal
Related to the stomach and intestines
Gender
Male or Female (the sex of a person)
Hematologic
Blood related
Hydration
Maintenance of bloody fluids
Hygiene
Cleanliness
Impaired
Lacking some usual quality or level
Impending
Be about to happen. “My impending departure”
Incidence
Occurrence
Infection
Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogens
Inflamed
Reddened, swollen, warm and often tender
Ingest
To swallow
Initiate
To start something
Insidious
Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
“Sexually transmitted diseases can be insidious and sometimes without symptoms.”
Intact
Not damaged or impaired in any way; complete. ( in place)
Internal
Within the body
Invasive
Involving entry into the body by cutting or by inserting an instrument
Labile
Changing rapidly or Volatile
Laceration
A deep cut to the skin or flesh.
Latent
Present but not active or visible. ( Like cancer)
Lethargic
Difficult to arouse
Manifestation
Indication or sign of a condition. (Like the rash in chicken pox is the manifestation of the varicella zoster virus.)
Musculoskeletal
Relating to muscle
Neurologic
Related to the nervous system
Neurovascular
Related to the nervous system and blood vessels
Nutrient
Ingredient that provides nourishment
Occluded
Closed or obstructed. Makeup can occlude the pores of the skin.
Ominous
Important
Ongoing
Continuous
Oral
Given trough or affecting the mouth
Overt
Obvious, evident, easily observed.
Parameter
A characteristic or constant factor, limit.
Paroxysmal
Sudden, violent outburst. For example a sudden, abrupt breathing pattern.
Patent
Open
Pathology
Processes, causes or effects of a disease
Posterior
Behind
Potent
Strong
Potential
Capable of occurring or likely to occur
Precaution
Preventive measure
Precipitous
Rapid, uncontrolled
Predispose
To make something more likely to occur. To expose to something.
Preexisting
Already present
Primary
First
Priority
Of great importance
Prognosis
Anticipated or expected outcome
Rationale
The underlying reason. (Az oka valaminek)
Recur
To occur again
Renal
Related to the kidney
Respiration
Breathing
Restrict
To limit. For example to limit fluid intake
Retain
To hold or keep ( for example to hold fluid, swelling)
Site
Location
Status (The patient’s status is her/his …)
Condition
Strict
Stringent, exact, complete, enforcing rules
Sublingual
Under the tongue
Supplement
To take in addition
Suppress
Stop
Symmetric
Being equal or same in size or shape
Symptom
Indication if a problem
Syndrome
Group of symptoms that together reflect a specific disease or disorder.
Therapeutic
- Producing good effects on your body or mind
- Of or relating to the treatment of illness
Transdermal
Crossing trough the skin
Transmission
Transfer, such as of disease
Trauma
Injury, wound
Triage
Determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient’s condition.
Untoward
Negative, not good, adverse
Urinate
Excrete urine
Vascular
Related to blood vessels
Verbal
Spoken
Virus
Microscopic infectious agent usually causing infectious disease
Vital
Essential
Void
Excrete urine from the body.
Volume
Amount of space occupied by fluid
Distal
Further away from the point of attachment
Proximal
Closer to the point of attachment
Inferior
Below
Superior
Above
Anterior
Facing forward
Posterior
Toward the back
Saggital ( body cut)
The median plane of the body. ( between legs, breast middle cut)
Transverse ( body cut)
(Also called the horizontal plane, axial plane, or transaxial plane) An imaginary plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
Frontal ( body cut)
The coronal or frontal plane divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front, or posterior and anterior) portions.
Docile
Easily thought or handled. Bring compliant.
Progeny
Offspring
Indigent people
Poor people
Febrile
Having fever
Decomposition
Lysis
Implement something
Cause it to happen.
Unseemly
Inappropriate
Proliferation
Increase
Ravenous
Hungry
