MedTerms 9th Edition - Chap. 2, Glossary & Abbreviations
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- blastocyte
- immature cell
- cardialgia
- heart pain
- cardiologist
- physician specialist in heart disease
- cardiomegaly
- enlarged heart
- cyanoderma
- blueness of the skin
- cyanosis
- condition of blueness
- cytologist
- a technologist who studies cellular disease
- cytology
- the science of studying cells
- cytometer
- instrument used to count cells
- cytometry
- process of using a cytometer
- dermatology
- science of studying the skin
- dermatome
- instrument used to cut slices of skin tissue
- duodenal
- pertaining to the duodenum (adj.)
- duodenotomy
- incision into the duodenum
- duodenum
- first part of small intestine
- echocardiography
- sonography of the heart
- electrocardiogram
- picture (tracing) representing the electrical activity of the heart during the cardiac cycle
- electrocardiograph
- instrument that produces the electrocardiogram
- electrocardiography
- process of using the electrocardiograph
- erythermia
- abnormally red blood due to too many erythrocytes
- erythroblast
- immature red blood cell
- erythrocytes
- red blood cells
- erythrocytopenia
- low numbers of erythrocytes
- erythrocytosis
- high numbers of erythrocytes
- erythroderma
- redness of the skin
- etiology
- study of the origin of disease
- gastralgia
- stomach pain
- gastrectomy
- excision of the stomach
- gastrududoenostomy
- making a new opening between the stomach and duodenum
- gastric
- pertaining to the stomach
- gastromegaly
- enlarged stomach
- histoblast
- immature tissue cells
- histology
- the science of studying tissues
- jaundice
- yellow appearance due to high billirubin level in the blood
- leukemia
- blood cancer involving leukocytes
- leukocyte
- white blood cells
- leukocytopenia
- low numbers of leukocytes
- leukocytosis
- high numbers of leukocytes
- leukoderma
- abnormally white skin (vitiligo)
- lymphatic
- pertaining to the lymph system
- megalomania
- abnormally enlarged self-image
- melanoblast
- immature melanocyte
- melanocyte
- pigment cell
- melanoderma
- dark patches of skin
- pathologist
- physician specialist in study of disease
- pathology
- study of disease
- radiogram
- x-ray picture
- radiograph
- instrument used to produce the radiogram (x-ray) film
- radiography
- process of producing radiograms
- radiologist
- physician specialist in the interpretation of radiograms and other diagnostic imaging modalities
- sonogram
- image of the body produced by computerized reflected sound
- sonograph
- instrument that reflects sound waves through the body, picks them up with a transducer and uses a computer to create an image of body structures
- sonographer
- technologist who performs sonography
- sonography
- process of using a sonograph
- thrombocytes
- platelets (blood-clotting cell fragments)
- thrombocytopenia
- low numbers of thrombocytes
- thrombocytosis
- high numbers of thrombocytes
- tomogram
- picture made by a tomograph
- tomograph
- instrument that uses x-ray to produce images through planes (slices) of the body
- tomoography
- process of using a tomograph
- xanthemia
- yellow condition of the blood (carotenemia)
- -ectomy
- to excise (remove)
- -ostomy
- make a new opening
- -otomy
- incision
- -tome
- to cut slices
- gastr
- (word root) stomach
- chlor/o
- green
- xanth/o
- yellow
- leuk/o
- white
- erythr/o
- red
- CBC
- Complete blood count
- RBC
- Red blood cell
- WBC
- White blood cell
- CT, CAT
- computed tomography (scan)
- ECHO
- echocardiogram
- EKG, ECG
- electrocardiogram
- GI
- gastrointestinal
- -penia
- abnormally low
- -osis
- abnormally high
- MRI
- magnetic resonance imaging