Medical Terminolovy Chapters 1 through 4
Terms
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Opposite of -malacia is:
(softening) - -sclerosis (hardening)
- Resembling:
- -oid
- Death:
- Necro/o
- Treatment;
- -therapy
- Instrument to record:
- -graph
- Instrument to visually examine:
- -scope
- Surgical creation of a permanent opening to the outside of the body:
- -stomy
- Ultrsonography:
- Sound waves and echoes are used to create and image
- Amniocentesis:
- Saurgical punture to remove fluid from the sac around the embryo.
- Excessive development:
- Hypertrophy
- excessive sugar int he blood:
- hyperglycemia
- Pain int he ear
- otalgia
- Removal of the voice box
- Laryngectomy
- Continuing over a long period of time
- chronic
- Hernia of the urinary bladder
- cystocele
- Tumor of bone marrow (cancerous)
- malignat myeloma
- small artery is a an
- arteriole
- Tachycardia
- rapid heartbeat
- angioplast means
- surgical repair of a blood vessel
- epithelium
- surface cells that line internal organs and are found in the skin
- pertaining to between the ribs
- intercostal
- retroperitoneal
- bedind the abdomen
- pertaining to the opposite side
- contralateral
- abductor muscle
- carried a limb away from the body