Medical Terminology

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Stomatomalacia

(Pathological) softening of any structures of the mouth

Encephalolith

A calculus in the brain

Eucholia

A normal condition of bile

Toxin

A poisonous substance

Capitulum

A small rounded articulate end of a bone

Hemic calculus

A stone formed from coagulated blood

Angiostenosis

ANGIO- STEN-

Periosteoma

Abnormal growth surrounding a bone

Leptocephalia

Abnormal vertically elongated, narrow skull

Combing form of Acanthosis

Acanth- Thorn

Acanthocytosis

Acanthocytes in the blood

Pertussis

Acute contagious disease first characterized by coughing

Antitussive

Agent that prevents or relieves coughing

Infracostal

Below the rib

Pachyostosis

Benign condition of thickening of the bones

Lipemia

Blood that has abnormal fat

Hemarthrosis

Bloody effusion within a joint

Bursolith

Calculus formed in a bursa

Encephalomalacia

Cerebellum becomes soft

Fibromyalgia

Chronic pain in muscles and soft tissues surrounding joints

Synovia

Clear and viscid

Pseudocyst

Collection of fluid that becomes surrounded by a capsule

Sincipital

Concerning the upper half of the skull

insulinemia

Condition where hyperglycemia is present despite HIGH levels of insulin in the blood stream

Perinephrium

Connective and fatty tissue surrounding a kidney

Stenosis

Constriction or narrowing of a passage or orifice

Epicranium

Covering the cranium

Prefix of dysarthrosis

Defective

Proencephalus

Deformed fetus in which the brain protrudes through a fissure in the FRONTAL area of the skull

Antibiotic

Destructive to life

Costotome

Device used to cut through rib or cartilage

Toxemia

Distribution throughout the body of the poisonous products of bacteria

Endocranium

Dura meter of the brain, which forms the lining membrane of the cranium

Erythrotoxin

Exotoxin that lyses red blood cells

Hyperalgia

Extreme sensitivity to pain

Lithogenesis

Formation of calculi

Melanomatosis

Formation of numerous melanomas on or beneath the skin

Purulent

Forming or containing pus

Combining form of hematoma

HEMAT-, blood

Sclerencephalia

Hardening of the brain

Angiosclerosis

Hardening of the walls of blood vessels

Trigastric

Having 3 bellies, as certain muscles

Heteroprosopus

Having two faces

Cephalalgia

Headache

Cystic Hernia

Hernia of the bladder

Angiitis

Inflammation of a vessel

Arteritis

Inflammation of the artery

Radiculoeningomyelitis

Inflammation of the nerve roots, meninges, and spinal cord

Arthrosteitis

Inflammation of the osseous structure of a joint

Parasynovitis

Inflammation of tissues around a synovial sac

Cytometer

Instrument for counting and measuring cells

Lithometer

Instrument for estimating the size of calculi

Cystolith

Kidney stone lodged or formed in the urinary bladder

Erythroleukemia

Leukemia characterized by abnormal, immature red blood cells

Symbiosis

Living together of two organisms

Dyscephaly

Malformation of the head and facial bones

Stereometry

Measurement of a solid body

Cytobiology

Medical and scientific study of cells

Monocyte

Mononuclear phagocytic blood cell derived from myeloid stem cells

Antitoxin is capable of?

Neutralizing a specific biologic toxin

Viremia

Occurs in the blood

Nephralgia

Pain in the kidney

Gastroenteralgia

Pain in the stomach and intestine

Dorsodynia

Pain in the upper back muscles

Megalocystis

Permanent abnormal enlargement of urinary bladder

Toxic

Pertaining to poison

Encephalic

Pertaining to the brain or its cavity

Exocardia

Placement of the heart is congenitally abnormal

Mesocardia

Placement of the heart is in the mid-line of the thorax

Abdominoplasty

Plastic surgery of the abdomen

Antianemic

Preventing or curing anemia

Antilithic

Preventing the formation of calculi, or agent that does so

Pyocephalus

Purulent infection within the skull

Antipyretic

Reducing fever

Cheirology

Science or study of signs made by the fingers

Diencephalon

Second portion of the brain

Osteomalacia

Softening of the bones

Cardiomalacia

Softening of the heart(muscle)

Anticytotoxin

Something that inhibits or halts the activity of a cytotoxin

Craniology

Study of the skull

Protobiology

The study of microorganisms smaller than bacteria, i.e., the viruses

Craniosclerosis

Thickening of the skull

Endosteum

Thin layer of cells lining the marrow cavity of a bone

Synalgic

Together

Denticle

Toothlike

Heterotoxin

Toxin introduced from outside the patient's body

Vaccinotherapeutics

Treatment by injection of bacterial vaccines

Paracanthoma

Tumor involving prickle-cell layer of epidermis

Endangium

Tunica intima (inner layer) of a blood vessel

Stenocephaly

Unusual narrowness of the head

Leukocyte

White blood cell

Angiosis

any disease of blood vessels or lymph vessels

Plural form of arthritis

arthritides

Myeloradiculodysplasia

congenital abnormality of spinal cord and spinal nerve roots

Hemianencephaly

congenital absence of one-half of the brain

Lithonephritis

inflammation of the kidney due to calculi

Myofibril

muscle cells

Nasology

study of the nose and its diseases

Auris externa

the external ear

Microbe

unicellular or small


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