Quizlet Section 27

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  1. Manipulate: to handle
  2. Meloplasty: reconstructive surgery of the cheek
  3. Melosalgia: pain in the lower limbs
  4. Myelin: a white fatty material that covers nerves with fast conduction of impulses
  5. Myelogenous: produced in the bone marrow
  6. Myelogram: radiograph of spinal cord after administering surrounding constrastmedia
  7. Neural: pertaining to nerves
  8. Neurohypophysis: posterior part of pituitary that consists of nerve cells from the base of the brain
  9. Notochord: rod-like structure that forms the spinal column
  10. Odontectomy: tooth extraction
  11. Omalgia: shoulder pain
  12. Omphalitis: inflammation of the umbilicus (navel)
  13. Onychectomy: declaw
  14. Onychophagia: nail chewing
  15. Oropharynx: mouth and throat
  16. Palpebral: pertaining to eyelids
  17. Pancreatectomy: surgical removal of the pancreas
  18. Pectoral: pertaining to the breast
  19. Pellagra: rough skin from niacin (B vitamin) deficiency
  20. Peritoneum: lining of the abdomen and abdominal organs
  21. Peroneal: pertaining to the fibula
  22. Pharyngeal: pertaining to the throat
  23. Pharyngitis: sore throat
  24. Phrenic: pertaining to the diaphragm
  25. Phrenospasm: hiccups
  26. Pinealoma: tumor of a pine cone-shaped gland of the brain
  27. Pleural: relating to the inner lining of the chest and outer lining of lungs
  28. Pleuritis: inflammation of the chest lining
  29. Podalgia: pain in the foot
  30. Podiatrist: specialist in foot problems
  31. Proctologist: medical specialist in the anus and rectum
  32. Proctoscopy: examination of the anus and rectum with a scope
  33. Prosopoplegia: facial paralysis
  34. Psychosomatic: mental or emotional problems that act as a physical problem
  35. Pygostyle: spinal tail of birds
  36. Renal: pertaining to the kidney
  37. Rhinitis: inflammation of the nose
  38. Rhinoplasty: reconstructive surgery of the nose
  39. Sarcoma: malignant tumor of flesh tissue (not from lining cells of the body, those are carcinomas)
  40. Scelalgia: pain in the lower part of the leg
  41. Somatotropin: growth hormone
  42. Splanchnic: pertaining to the viscera (soft internal organs)
  43. Splenomegaly: enlarged spleen
  44. Thelorrhagia: bloody discharge from nipple
  45. Thoracolumbar: pertaining to the junction of the chest and loin
  46. Thoracotomy: surgical incision into the pleural cavity
  47. Thymoma: tumor of the thymus gland
  48. Trachelorrhapy: suture of torn or lacerated cervix
  49. Tracheobronchitis: inflammation of the windpipe and its branches
  50. Uranoschisis: cleft palate
  51. Uvula: little grape-like flesh that hangs from the soft palate in humans
  52. Visceroparietal: pertaining to soft internal organs and the abdominal wall