Medical Terminology Made Easy
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- The Study of Mind or Mental Process
- Psychology
- Membrane Surrounding the Lungs
- Pleura
- Membrane that lines the abdominal cavity
- Peritoneum
- Pertaining to the wall of an organ or cavity
- Parietal
- A circumscribed benign epithelial tumor projecting from the surrounding surface
- Papilloma
- Disease of a bone
- Osteopathy
- A specialist in the study of tumors
- Oncologist
- A specially trained physician who performs surgery on the structures of the nervous system
- Neurosurgeon
- Refers to any kind of tumor or abnormal growth of cells
- Neoplasm
- Preceeding Birth
- Prenatal
- Spasm of a muscle
- Myospasm
- Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord
- Meningitis
- Black Cell
- Melanocyte
- Lymph nodes and organs that help circulate tissue fluids absorb fats and fight infection
- Lymphatic
- a fat tumor
- lipoma
- a benign neoplasm derived from smooth muscle
- Leiomyoma
- Study of tissue
- Histology
- Resembling or composed of fibers or fibrous tissue
- Fibroid
- Pertaining or consisting of epithelium
- Epithelial
- When brain tissue protrudes through a cranial fissure
- Encephalocele
- Excessive vomitting
- hyperemesis
- Fluid that bathes the cerebrum and spinal cord
- Cerebrospinal
- Any pain in the head
- Cephalalgia
- Transfer of a disease from one organ to another
- metastisis
- Hardening of the blood vessels
- Atherosclerosis
- Any disease of a gland
- Adenopathy
- Towards the head
- Cephalic
- Study of how body structures work
- Physiology
- The purely cellular avascular layer covering all the free surfaces, cutaneous mucous and serous, including the glands and other structures dervied there from
- Epithelium
- away from the center
- distal
- Study of the cause of diseases
- Etiology
- Study of Tissues
- Histology
- Toward the side away from midline
- Lateral
- Progressive profiberation of abnormal leukocytes found in hemopoietic tissues, other organs and ususally in the blood in increased numbers
- Leukemia
- middle or center
- Medial
- a delusion of greatness, belief that one is god, god like, christ
- Megalomania
- Another word for anterior * Front *
- Ventral
- The outermost coat or serous layer of a visceral structure that lies in the body cavities of abdomen or thorax
- Serosa
- Incision into the chest wall
- Thoracotomy
- inflammation of the pleura
- Pleuritis
- Relating the the pelvis
- Pelvic
- Back
- Posterior
- Nearest to the point of origin
- Proximal
- Enlarged extremities
- Acromegaly
- The study of skin disease
- Dermatology
- Blueness of the skin
- Cyanoderma
- inflammation of the skin
- dermatitis
- any disease of the skin
- dermopathy
- Study of or pertaining to the cause of diseases
- Etiology
- Process of measuring cells
- Cytometry
- Paralysis of the extremities
- Acroparalysis
- Study of body structures
- Anatomy
- Adjective for blue condition
- Cyanotic
- Inflammation of the skin on the extremities
- Acrodermatitis
- Synonym for dorsal
- Posterior
- Below
- Inferior
- To the side of
- Lateral
- Pertaining to the chest
- Thoracic
- Closer to the point of origin
- Proximal
- Pertaining to the lung cavity
- Pleural
- General term for any skin disease
- Dermopathy
- Englargement of the hands or feet
- Acromegaly
- One who studies skin diseases
- Dermatologist
- Anatomy & Physiology
- A & P
- Hydrochloric Acid
- HCI
- Lower Left Quadrant
- LLQ
- Right upper Quadrant
- RUQ
- Anteroposterior
- AP
- posteroanterior
- PA
- Right lower quadrant
- RLQ
- above, over
- Superior
- below, under
- inferior
- around, encircling
- Circum
- Anterior
- Front
- Away from origin
- Distal
- Towards the midline
- Medial
- Away from midline
- Lateral
- Vertical Plane
- Madsagittal Plane
- Embryonic or immature cell
- Blastocyte
- Study of the cell
- Cytology
- Condition of blueness
- Cyanosis
- Upward towards the head
- Cephalic
- stomach area
- Abdominal
- downward towards the tail
- Caudal
- mucous tissue lining
- Mucosa
- Red Cell
- Erythrocyte
- White Cell
- Leukocyte
- Black skin
- Melanoderma
- White Skin
- leukoderma
- Red Skin
- Erythoderma
- Blue skin
- Cyanoderma
- Aortic aneurysm
- AA
- White Blood Cell (count)
- WBC
- Ventricular Fibrillation
- VFib (VF)
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- TIA
- Registered Vascular Technologist
- RVT
-
Registered Radiologic Technologists
*therapist* - RT (T)
- Registered dianostic Medical sonographer
- RDMS
- Red Blood Cell ( Count )
- RBC
- Premature ventricular contraction
- PVC
- Proxysmal atrial tachycardia
- PAT
- Pulse
- P
- Myocardial Infarction
- MI
- Hemoglobin
- HGB, HB, Hgb, Hb
- hematocrit
- HcT
- Electrocardiogram
- EKG / ECG
- Echocargiogram
- Echo
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- DVT
- Differential White Blood Cell count
- Diff
- Congestive heart failure
- CHF
- Complete blood count
- CBC
- Computed (axial) tomography
- CAT / CT
- Coronary artery bypass graft
- CABG
- beats per minute
- BPM
- Arteriosclerostic heart disease
- ASWD
- ateriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- ASCVD
- Arterioclerosis
- AS
- Acute myocardial infarction
- AMI
- Xray
- XR
- control of lymph flow
- lymphostasis
- control of the flow of blood
- hemostasis