Medical Terminology FINAL EXAM

Vein

production/ formation

viewing

carbon dioxide in blood

Tympamic membrane

Cornea

plastic surgeon

inflammation of

Excessively

condition of havinh such blood

within

Dilation/ expansion

Joint

Bronchial tubes

spewing/ expectoration

Abnormal

breathe

Mind/ diaphragm

nose

White

Deficiency of

Dry

Skin

Potassium

Spinal cord or bone marrow

Cell

Embryonic/ immature cell

breakdown, seperation, destruction, loosening

Posterior-Anterior, lateral

Computed Tomography scan, detailed images of internal organs. X-ray images

Imaging that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of structures within your body.

Treatment of skin cancer, especially basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. This procedure is designed to remove all the cancerous tissue while removing as little of the healthy tissue as possible.

an X-ray study that involvs the injection of a dye into the spinal canal to assess the nerve roots.

They are proteins from heart muscle cells. Low levels of these are usually found in your blood. but if your heart muscle is injured these enzymes leak out of your damaged hert muscle cells and their levels in the bloodstream rise. Example: Troponin, too

The record obtained by echocardiography

A device in which charged particles are accelerated in straight paths by the use of alternating electric voltages that are timed in such a way that the particles receive increasing increments of energy

Test that is done in glass in laboratory

Diagnostic technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce a detailed image of the body's soft tissues and bones.

Determine the number of white blood cells and the percentage of each type of white blood cell in person's blood.

Proportion of your total blood volume that is composed of red blood cells.

Main protein in human blood and the key to regulating osmotic pressure of blood.

Hair loss

Sweating

Redness of the skin or mucous membranes

Inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract

Condition marked by increase of interstitial fibrous tissue

Bluish discoloration

Severe, potentially life threatening allergic reaction

Extemely complex hormonal condition that involves many areas of the body.

Autoimmune disease in which the overactivity of thyroid gland causes the overproduction of thyroid hormones.

Variable disorder of carbohydrate metabolism caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors and usually characterized by inadequate secretion or utilization of insulin.

Excessive development of the breast in the male

A congenital abnormality of the heart characterized by pulmonary stenosis, an opening in the interventricular septum

A valvular heart disorder in which one or both mitral valve flaps close incompletly during systole usually producing either a click or murmur

condition marked by the formation of a thrombus within a deep bein that may be asymptomatic or be accompanied by symptoms such as swelling and pain.

Blood deficient in red blood cells

A condition that affects especially older woman and is characterized by decrease in bone mass with decreased density and enlargement of bone spaces producing porosity and brittleness

Infectious, painful inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial orgin and may result in death of bone tissue

A disease of adults that is characterized by softening of the bones and is analogous to rickets in the young

Condition of an albino

A chronic skin disease characterized by circumscribed red patches covered with white scales.

Localized or generalized itching due to irritation of sensory nerve endings

Any of several inflammatory diseases of the skin caused by herpesviruses and characterized by clusters of vessicles.

The visual images come to focus in front of the retina of the eye because of defects in the refractive media of the eye

Inflamation of the middle ear marked especillu by pain, fever, dizziness, and hearing loss.

Disease in which pressure inside the eye cuses gradual loss of vision

Gradual loss of the central part of the field of vision usally affecting both eyes that occurs especially in the elderly

Condition that causes you to hear ringing or roaring sounds that only you can hear

A sore that people get from lying in bed for a very long time when they are sick or injured.

Pulmonary disease that is characterized by chronic typically irreversible airway obstruction resulting in a slwoed rate of exhalation

Deficient supply of blood to a body part (as the heart or brain) that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood

A neoplastic disease that is characterized by progressive enlargement of lymph nodes, spleen, and liver and by progressive anemia

Virus that causes aids

A lateral curvature of the spine

Serious disease that causes a person who has been cut or injured to keep bleeding for a very long time

Neoplastic disease that occurs especially in individuals coinfected with HIV and a specific herpesvirus. Affects the skin and mucous membranes.

the part of the inner ear that contains the ending of the nerve that carries information about sound to the brain

Therapeutic method or agent, such as surgery, chemotherapy

the use of controlled amounts of this for the treatment of diseases

The spread of a disease-producing agency (as cancer cells) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body

A period of time during a serious illness when the patients health improves

Sitting propped up in bed by several pillows

the long bone of the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow

Gradual loss of muscle or flesh usually becuase of disease or lack of use

Surgical removal of the posterior arch of a vertebra

Jaw, the lower jaw with its investing soft parts

the cup-shaped socket in the hip bone

A hollow thin-walled rounded bony prominence

Genetic disposition to develop an allergic reaction such as allergic rhinitis, asthm, or atopic dermatitis. and produce elevated levels of IgE

Surgical removal of the inner layer of an artery when thickened and atheromatous

Valve in the heart that guards the opening between the left atrium and the left ventricle.

Small mass of tissue that is made up of Purkinje fibers, ganglion cells, and nerve fibers

Sulfuric acid ester that occurs especially in the liver and lungs that prolongs the clotting time of blood by preventing the formation of fibrin and that is administered parenterally

Largest lymphatic organ in body. Filters blood, serves as a major reservoir for blood

Situated within but not restricted to

Causes a person to "lose water"

An antivconvulsant drug

Pain relievers, Non-steroidal anti-inflmmatory drugs

Any of a class of drugs (as propranolol) that decrease the rate and force of heart contractions and lower high blood pressure by blocking the activity of beta-recptors

Drug used to reduce mental disturbance such as anxiety and tension

The outer layer of skin

Valve that is situated at the opening of the right atrium of the heart into the right ventricle

Heart Attack

Condition caused by atherosclerosis that reduces the blood flow through the coronary arteries to the heart muscle.

Triple antigen immunization against these diseases

The space in the chest between the pleural sacs of the lungs

Difficulty breathing

Blood gas carbon dioxide level over 45mmHg

spitting up blood

to eject from the throat or lungs by coughing or spitting

Sensation of breathless in the recumbent postion, relieved by sitting or standing

Low red blood cell count caused by inadequate vitamin B12

Red Blood cells become shaped like a crescent and less able to carry oxygen

Bony and cartilaginous tube connecting the middle ear with the nasopharynx and equalizing ir pressure

Lower than normal pottasium level in your blood stream

X-ray exam that can detect changes or abnormalities in the large intestine

Used widely for myocrdial nuclear imaging