Chapters 2 - 4 Flashcards

Question

ne/o, nat/o

Answer 1

new, birth

Answer 2

midwife (obstetrics, obstetrician)

Answer 3

straight, child

Answer 4

ear, larnyx (otolaryngologist)

Answer 5

rheumatism

Answer 6

urinary tract

Answer 7

Variety of disorders marked by inflammation, degeneration, etc. of the connective tissues (esp. In joints)

Answer 8

Secretes chemical messengers called hormones

Answer 9

Not cancerous (tumor)

Answer 10

Spontaneous new growth of tissue

Answer 11

Method of sorting according to the patients' need for care

Answer 12

Affect a local area only

Answer 13

Acts on brain and causes loss of consciousness

Answer 14

Deals with legal aspects of healthcare

Answer 15

Surgical puncture to aspirated or remove fluid

Answer 16

Surgical removal or cutting out (excision) | Appendectomy

Answer 17

Process of loosening or destroying (dialysis)

Answer 18

Surgical fixation

Answer 19

Surgical repair (plastic surgery)

Answer 20

visual examination with lighted instrument

Answer 21

formation of an opening (tracheostomy)

Answer 22

instrument used for cutting

Answer 23

incision - cutting into tissue (tracheotomy)

Answer 24

surgical crushing

Answer 25

eyelid (blepharotosis)

Answer 26

brain (encephalitis)

Answer 27

colon or large intestine

Answer 28

bone marrow / spinal cord

Answer 29

trachea (windpipe)

Answer 30

vessel - ductus deferens

Answer 31

excision of life (small lump of tissue)

Answer 32

health change as perceived by the patient

Answer 33

identification of a condition by scientific evaluation

Answer 34

pain (fibermyalgia)

Answer 35

pain (otodynia)

Answer 36

hernia (protrusion of all or part of an organ through cavity wall) - encephalocele

Answer 37

dilation, enlargement, stretching (neurectasia)

Answer 38

dilation, enlargement, stretching (angiectasis)

Answer 39

condition of the blood (anemia. leukemia)

Answer 40

condition (hysteria, psoriasis)

Answer 41

inflammation

Answer 42

stone or calculus (cholelith - gallstone)

Answer 43

soft, softening (osteomalacia)

Answer 44

excessive preoccupation (kleptomania - excessive stealing)

Answer 45

enlargement

Answer 46

resembling (paranoid, mucoid) - adj and nouns

Answer 47

condition (neurosis)

Answer 48

deficiency (calcipenia)

Answer 49

abnormal fear

Answer 50

prolapse / sagging (drooping or sagging eyelids)

Answer 51

excessive bleeding or hemorrhage

Answer 52

flow or discharge (gonorrhea - urethral or vaginal discharge); diarrhea

Answer 53

rupture - cardiorrhexis (ruptured heart)

Answer 54

twitching / cramp / involuntary, sudden movement

Answer 55

stopping / controlling (homeostasis)

Answer 56

capable of (preventable)

Answer 57

able to (illegible)

Answer 58

pertaining to (cardiac, thermal, medial, alveolar, salivary, peritoneal, lymphatic, invasive, nephrotic) - nephr/o is kidney

Answer 59

membrane (peritoneum)

Answer 60

membrane (endocardium)

Answer 61

condition or therapy (anesthesia)

Answer 62

condition or therapy (absenteeism)

Answer 63

one who suffers (hemophiliac - one who suffers from hemophilia); maniac

Answer 64

vision (diplopia - double vision)

Answer 65

sugar (glucose)

Answer 66

pertaining to or characterized by (cancerous)

Answer 67

state or condition (atrophy - wasting away of tissue, cell, organ, or part)

Answer 68

starch (amylase - enzyme that breaks down starch)

Answer 69

protein (proteinurea - excess proteins in the urine)

Answer 70

fire; pyrogen - substance the produced fever

Answer 71

one hundred / one-hundredth

Answer 72

one-thousandth

Answer 73

half, partly (hemisphere)

Answer 74

half, partly (semipermeable)

Answer 75

excessive, more than normal

Answer 76

under, less than normal

Answer 77

many (polysaccharides)

Answer 78

all (pandemic - occurring throughout)

Answer 79

first (ex. primary)

Answer 80

excessive (supervitaminosis - excessive ingestion of vitamins)

Answer 81

excessive (ultraviolet - light beyond the visible spectrum)

Answer 82

before in time or place (anteroom)

Answer 83

before in time or place (preener - area in front of the kidney)

Answer 84

around (circumphrance)

Answer 85

around (perimeter, pericardium)

Answer 86

against / opposed (contralateral - acting in different directions)

Answer 87

through (diameter - passed through center of circle; dialysis)

Answer 88

out, without, away from (exoskeleton)

Answer 89

inside (endotracheal)

Answer 90

above, on (epitaph - inscribed on tombstone above grave)

Answer 91

beneath, under (hypodermic - beneath the skin)

Answer 92

beneath, under

Answer 93

beneath, under (subcutaneous)

Answer 94

between (intersection; interval)

Answer 95

same (ipsilateral - affecting same side of body)

Answer 96

middle (mesoderm)

Answer 97

near, beside, abnormal (parallel)

Answer 98

through or by (perspire, permeable)

Answer 99

after, behind (postnasal - behind nose)

Answer 100

behind, backward (retroactive)

Answer 101

above (superficial)

Answer 102

above (suprarenal)

Answer 103

joined together (symbiosis - two organisms of different species beneficially live together)

Answer 104

joined, together (syndrome - set of symptoms that occur together)

Answer 105

across (transdermal drug - can be absorbed through (or across) unbroken skin

Answer 106

slow (bradycardia)

Answer 107

bad, difficult (dysfunction, dyslexia)

Answer 108

good, normal (euthanasia - thought by some to be good)

Answer 109

favoring / suporting

Answer 110

fast (tachycardia - fast heartbeat)

Answer 111

before (antepartum - before children)

Answer 112

before (premarital)

Answer 113

before (proactive - take action before)

Answer 114

after or behind

Answer 115

large or great

Answer 116

large or great (megalomania - delusions of greatness)

Answer 117

no, not, without (a before consonant and an before vowel and h)

Answer 118

not or inside (inconsistent, inhale)

Answer 119

white (leukemia - disease characterized by inc in white blood cells)

Answer 120

green (chlorophyll)

Answer 121

cyanosis (deficiency in oxygen - bluish color)

Answer 122

red (erythrocyte - red blood cell)

Answer 123

black (melanoma - malignant skin cancer)

Answer 124

yellow (note: jaundice is exception)

Answer 125

beginning / origin (produced by or in, producing or forming) (ex. carcinogenesis)

Answer 126

to record (a record, instrument for recording, process of recording)

Answer 127

movement (movement / motion)

Answer 128

seizure (epilepsy)

Answer 129

destruction, dissolving (that which destroys, process of destroying, capable of or producing destruction) Note: conversion of s to t in lytic

Answer 130

soft, softening, (abnormal softening)

Answer 131

large, enlarged (enlargement)

Answer 132

measure, uterine tissue (instrument used to measure, process of measuring)

Answer 133

eat, ingest (eating, swallowing); phagocyte

Answer 134

speech; aphasia - inability to speak

Answer 135

paralysis (paraplegic); quadriplegia

Answer 136

split, cleft; schizophrenic - psychosis with distortions of reality

Answer 137

hard (hardening); arteriosclerosis

Answer 138

to examine, to view (instrument used for viewing, process of examining visually) - microscopy

Answer 139

record of the electrical recordings of the heart (ECG or EKG)

Answer 140

air (aerobed)

Answer 141

embryonic form (osteoblasts - embryonic bone cells)

Answer 142

cold (cryotherapy uses cold temps to treat certain conditions)

Answer 143

hidden (cryptic remark)

Answer 144

thirst (polydipsia - excessive thirst)

Answer 145

electricity

Answer 146

fiber (fibrous)

Answer 147

tissue (histocompatibility - measure of compatibility of the tissues of a done and recipient)

Answer 148

fungus (mycology - branch of botany that deals with fungus)

Answer 149

stupor (hint: narcotics cause stupor or instability)

Answer 150

dead (necrosis - localized tissue death in response to disease or injury)

Answer 151

vision (optical, optometrist)

Answer 152

voice (phone)

Answer 153

light (photography)

Answer 154

pus (pyogenic - pus producing)

Answer 155

position, place (topography)

Answer 156

trachea (windpipe)

Answer 157

abnormal concentration that forms within the body (kidney stone)

Answer 158

record produced by the electrical impulses of the brain

Answer 159

within normal limits

Answer 160

identification of disease or condition by scientific evaluation

Answer 161

predicted outcome of a disease

Answer 162

Having a short and relatively severe course

Answer 163

disease exists over a long time

Answer 164

objective or definite evidence of an illness or disordered function that are perceived by an examiner (ex. fever)

Answer 165

subjective evidence as perceived by the patient (ex. pain)

Answer 166

small sample or part taken from the body to represent the nature of the whole

Answer 167

measurements of pulse, respiration rate, and temperature (blood pressure)

Answer 168

rhythmic expansion of an artery that occurs as the heart beats - normal pulse rate (count of heart rates per minute): 60-100

Answer 169

exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body / breathing - respiration rate (# of breathes per minute)

Answer 170

thermometer with a probe placed at external canal of ear (useful for young children and babies)

Answer 171

pressure exerted by the circulating volume of blood on the walls of the arteries and veins and on the chambers of the heart - measured indirectly with a stethoscope and blood pressure cuff - millimeters mercury (mm Hg) - normal range: 120/80

Answer 172

maximum pressure on the artery

Answer 173

amount of pressure that still exists when the heart is relaxed

Answer 174

inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation

Answer 175

to listen for sounds within the body

Answer 176

instrument used to hear sounds within the body; diaphragm and bell

Answer 177

a record (electrocardiogram)

Answer 178

instrument for recording (electrocardiograph)

Answer 179

process of recording (electrocardiography)

Answer 180

measurement of the dimensions of the head

Answer 181

process of measuring (cephalometry)

Answer 182

instrument used to measure (thermometer)

Answer 183

instrument used to measure the eye

Answer 184

illuminated instrument for visualization of the interior of the body cavity (inside / instrument for viewing)

Answer 185

hollow, flexible tube that can be inserted into a cavity of the body to withdraw or instill fluids, perform tests for visualize a vessel or cavity - catheterization: introduction of a catheter - catheterize: to introduce a catheter

Answer 186

hollow flexible tube that is inserted into vessels or cavities

Answer 187

require entry into a body cavity (cardiac catheterization) or interruption of normal body function (surgical incision)

Answer 188

images from radiology are digitized and immediately displayed on a monitor or recorded on film

Answer 189

sound (echocardiogram)

Answer 190

sound (sonogram)

Answer 191

electricity

Answer 192

emitting or reflecting light (fluorescent)

Answer 193

radiant energy (can mean radius - bone of forearm); ex. radiation

Answer 194

predominant means of diagnostic imaging for many years (x-ray)

Answer 195

projects x-rays through the patient which expose the radiographic film or digital image receptor to create the image (note, usually graph mean instrument used for recording)

Answer 196

substances that do not permit the passage of x-rays (bone and metal) - show up white

Answer 197

substances that readily permit the passage of x-rays (air and fat) - appear dark

Answer 198

uses ionizing radiation to produce a detailed image of a cross section of tissue, similar to what one would see if body was cut into sections (painless and non-invasive)

Answer 199

created images of internal structures based on the magnetic properties of chemical elements within the body and uses powerful magnetic field and radio wave pulses rather than ionizing radiation (used for soft tissue)

Answer 200

process of imaging deep structures of the body by sending and receiving high frequency sound waves that are reflected back as echoes from tissue interfaces (can be 2-D or 3D) - record produced called a sonogram or echogram

Answer 201

use of radiopaque materials to make internal organs visible on x-ray images

Answer 202

placing radioactive materials into the body organs for the purpose of imaging

Answer 203

visual examination of an internal organ using a fluoroscope; radiography provides a record of the image at a particular point in time

Answer 204

medicinal drugs

Answer 205

combined tomography and radioactive substances to produce enhanced images of selected body structures, especially the heart, blood vessels and brain - radioactive materials are very short lived, very small amount of exposure

Answer 206

treatment of tumors using radiation to destroy cancer cells (aka. radiation oncology)

Answer 207

pertaining to therapy

Answer 208

drugs or medicine

Answer 209

drug that receives pain (note: one i is omitted)