Medical Terminology
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