Prelim | Medical Terms

Question 1

Tumor of the bone

Answer 1

Osteoma

Question 2

Absence of breast

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Amastasia

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Without feeling

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Anesthesia

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Study of the ears, nose, and throat

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Otorhinolaryngography

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Study of the uterus and fallopian tube

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Hysterosalpingography

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Paralysis of the lower limbs

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Paraplegia

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Paralysis of all limbs

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Quadriplegia

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Abnormal curvature of the spine towards right

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Dexteroscoliosis

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Abnormal curvature of the spine toward the left

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Levoscoliosis

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Fetus grows outside

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Ectopic (pregnancy?)

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Visual examination of the stomach

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Endoscopy

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Outside bulging of the eyeballs

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Exophthalmos

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When a woman’s uterus (womb) tilts backward rather than forward

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Retroverted uterus

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When a woman’s uterus tilts forward at the cervix and points toward the abdomen

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Anteverted uterus

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First pregnancy

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Primigravida

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Thick skin

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Pachyderma

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Dry skin

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Xeroderma

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Producing od sperms

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Oligospermia

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When one stops breathing during sleep

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Apnea

Question 20

Patient cannot urinate

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Incontinence

Question 21

Spike waves, sharp waves, spike and wave activity, or other rhythmic waveforms that imply epilepsy

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Epileptiform

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Medical term for head ache

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Cephalodynia

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Tumor of the vladder

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Cystocele

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Lack of white blood cells

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Leukopenia

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Difficulty of discharge. flow every month

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Dysmenorrhea

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Splitting of the retina of the eye

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Retinoschiasis

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Widening of blood vessels as a result of the relaxation of the blood vessel’s muscular walls.

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Vasodilation

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Vomiting blood

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Hematemesis

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Patient has less vitamin D, thus softens the bones (common on geriatric)

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Osteomalacia

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Condition where a person’s kidney drops down into the pelvis when they stand up.

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Nephroptosis

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Suppression of menstruation every month

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Menostasis

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Death of a bone tissue

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Osteonecrosis

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Digested ball of hair

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Trichobezoar

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Insufficient urine

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Oliguria

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Condition pertaining to the hardening of fatty plaque fats in the heart

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Atherosclerosis

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Oertaining to the hardeninh of an artery

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Arteriosceloris

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Escape of a fluid (eg. blood) from tissue

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Effusion

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Desxribes an individual in whom the pairs of genes determining a particular characteristics are dissimilar

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Heterozygous

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A confition that is persistent or recurring

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Chronic

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Desetruction of red cells

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Hemolysis

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Outermost layer of the heart wall

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Epicardium

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Slowing or stopping the flow of a bodily fluid

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Stasis

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An optical instrument containing a tube with a lighted end used for internal examinations

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Endoscope

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Surgical removal of about half of the colon (large intestine)

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Hemicolectomy

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Breathing more than normal

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Hyperventilate

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Tumor of the liver

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Hepatoma

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Paralyisis of one side of the body

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Hemiplegia

Question 48

Excessive bleeding

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Hemorrhage