Dean Vaughn Medical Terminology 350 & Reading Assignments Lesson 8
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Croatian | English |
|---|---|
| pneum |  lung |
| phage | eat |
| phren | mind |
| corne | horny |
| plak | plate |
| iris | rainbow |
| kerat | horny |
| pulmo | lung |
| ptyal | saliva |
| alveol | cavity |
| oophor | ovary |
| oment | covering |
| sedat | quiet, calm |
| furca | fork-shaped |
| radic | root |
| radi | ray |
| fistul | pipe |
| edema | swelling |
| dactyl | finger, toe |
| metabol(e) | change |
| pariet | wall |
| ependym | wrapping |
| gravid | pregnant |
| aer | air |
| glyco | sweet |
| aerial | pertaining to the air |
| aerosis | the production of gas in the tissues or organs of the body |
| aeropathy | any disease due to change in atmospheric pressure such as compressed air illness ("bends") or air sickness |
| alveolus | name used to designate a small saclike pit or cavity |
| corn | name of a build-up of thick horny skin tissue produced by friction and pressure |
| corneal | pertaining to the cornea of the eye |
| dactyloscopy | examination of fingerprints for purpose of identification |
| edematous | pertaining to or affected by edema |
| pneumonedema | abnormal quantities of fluid in the lungs |
| ependyma | name of the membrane lining the cavities of the brain and the canal enclosing the spinal cord |
| fistula | term for an abnormal narrow passage leading from an abscess or hollow organ to the body surface, or form one hollow organ to another and permitting passage of fluids or secretions |
| fistulization | the process of becoming fistulous |
| fistuloenterostomy | the operation of making a fistula empty permanently into the intestine |
| furcal | shaped like a fork; forked |
| bifurcation | division into two branches; the site where a single structure divides in two |
| glycemia | the presence of sugar in the blood |
| glucose | a thick, syrupy, sweet liquid; the sweet, colorless, soluble form of dextrose that occurs widely in nature and is the usual form in which carbohydrate is assimilated by animals |
| glycopenia | a deficiency of sugar in the body tissues |
| gravidic | occurring during pregnancy |
| gravidocardiac | pertaining to heart disease of pregnancy |
| gravidity | the condition of being with child; pregnancy |
| iridic | pertaining to the iris |
| iridization | the patient's perception of colored halos about lights, occuring in glaucoma |
| keratic | pertaining to horny tissue; pertaining to the cornea |
| keratoderma | a horny skin or covering |
| keratoid | resembling horny or corneal tissue |
| keratomalacia | softening of the cornea |
| metabolism | the sum of all the physical and chemical processes by which living organized substance is produced and maintained, and also the transformation by which energy is made available for use by the body |
| omentum | name of the membranous cover of the abdominal organs |
| oophoron | an ovary |
| hystero-oophorectomy | surgical removal of the uterus and ovaries |
| parietal | pertaining to the walls of a cavity |
| parietitis | inflammation of the wall of an organ |
| onychophagy | nail biting |
| phagomania | an insatiable craving for food |
| phagocyte | any cell that absorbs ("eats") micro-organisms, other cells, or foreign bodies |
| odynophagia | pain in swallowing |
| phrenic | pertaining to the mind; pertaining to the diaphragm |
| phrenic- | form denoting relationship to the phrenic nerve |
| bradyphrenia | slowness of mental activity such as initiative, interest, speech, frequently accompanying encephalitis |
| malacoplakia | the formation of soft patches on the mucous membrane of a hollow organ |
| pneumal | pertaining to the lungs |
| pneumatic | of or pertaining to air or respiration |
| pneumatocele | a swelling containing air any place in the body; a pushing out of the lung through a weak place in the wall of the chest |
| pneumonia | inflammation of the longs, usually with complications and usually accompanied by chill, increase in temperature, pain and coughing |
| pneumonitis | a condition of localized, acute inflammation of the lung without the range of complications and symptoms accompanying pneumonia; benign pneumonia |
| hypopnea | abnormal decrease in the speed and depth of breathing |
| bradypnea | abnormal slowness of breathing |
| hyperpnea | abnormal increase in the speed and depth of breathing |
| ptyalism | excessive secretion of saliva; salivation |
| hemoptysis | the spitting of blood or of blood-stained spittle |
| ptyalectasis | dilation (enlarging) of a salivary duct by surgery |
| ptyalogenic | formed from or by the action of saliva |
| pulmo | the lung |
| renopulmonary | pertaining to the kidney and lungs |
| radial | pertaining to rays; pertaining to the spreading out from the center |
| radiology | the study of x-rays |
| radiotherapy | the treatment of disease by the use of x-rays or rays of a radioactive substance |
| radical | directed toward the cause; going to the root or source of a morbid process |
| radix | the root; the lowermost part, or a structure by which something is firmly attached |
| radicle | a little root; any one of the smallest branches of a vessel or nerve |
| radiculeneuropathy | disease of the nerve roots and the nerve |
| sedation | the act or process of calming |
| sedative | an agent such as a drug that calms or reduces excitement |
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