Med Terms Chap. 5
Terms
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- cheil/o
- lip/lips
- col/o
- colon
- dent/o
- teeth
- esophag/o
- esophagu/o
- gingiv/o
- gums
- gloss/o
- tongue
- hepat/o
- liver
- pancreat/o
- pancreas
- proct/o
- anus and rectum
- rect/o
- rectum
- stomat/o
- mouth
- -clysis
- irrigation
- -ectasia
- dilation, stretching
- -scope,-scopy
- look, examine
- -toxin
- poison
- enter/o
- intestine
- an/o
- anus
- cholecyst
- gallbladder
- cheilitis
- inflammation of the lips
- cheiloplasty
- plastic surgery of the lips
- colic
- pertaining to the colon or large intestine
- colitis
- inflammation of the colon or large intestine
- colostomy
- making a new opening into the colon (permanent)
- dentalgia
- toothache
- enterocele
- intestinal hernia
- enteroclysis
- irrigation, washing out of the small intestine
- enterotoxin
- posioning of the small intestine
- esophagogastroscopy
- examination of the esophagus and stomach
- gastrectasia
- strecthing of the stomach
- gastrorrhagia
- hemmorage if the stomach
- gingivectomy
- surgical excision of gum tissue
- gingivoglossitis
- imflammation of the gums and tongue
- glossospasm
- spasm of the tongue
- hepatitis
- inflammation of the liver
- hepatomegaly
- abnormal condition of enlargement of the liver
- hepatorrhagia
- hemorrage of the liver
- hypoglossal
- under the tongue
- pancreatectomy
- excision of part or all of the pancreas
- proctoclysis
- washing or irrigation of the anus & rectum
- protoscopy
- examination of the anus and rectum
- rectal
- pertaining to the rectum
- stomatitis
- inflammation of the mouth
- stomatorrhagia
- hemmorage of the mouth
- algesia
- sense of pain
- angi/o
- vessel
- arteri/o
- artery
- cardiac arrest
- stopped heart
- dactyl/o
- fingers
- defibrillation
- heart shocked to a regular heartbeat
- embolism
- obstruction of a blood vessel
- embolus
- foreign particle in the bloodstream
- esthesia
- feeling, sensation
- fibrillation
- very fast, irregular heartbeat
- myel/o
- spinal cord, bone marrow
- phas/o
- speech
- phleb/o
- vein
- plas/o
- formation
- thrombosis
- bloodclot occluding a vessel
- thrombus
- a blood clot
- dys-
- bad, difficult, painful
- -emia
- blood
- macro-
- large
- micro-
- small, very small
- poly-
- many
- sum-, syn-
- together
- -orrhexis
- rupture, bursting apart
- -tripsy
- rubbing, crushing
- analgesia
- without or absent pain
- anemia
- without blood
- anesthesiologist
- a person that administers drug that causes censation of pain.