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Ch 4 Terms Pt.3
Medical Terminology Class, Chapter 4 Terms and Definitions Part 3
Terms | Definitions |
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malaise | vague feeling of bodily discomfort |
insomnia | inability to sleep |
dehydration | lack of water |
metastasis | spread of cancerous tumor to a secondary organ or tissue |
microscope | instrument used to see small objects |
incision | to cut into organ or tissue |
exophthalmos | outward bulging of the eyeballs (proptosis) |
metamorphosis | condition of change in shape or form |
diarrhea | watery discharge of wastes from the colon |
pancytopenia | deficiency of all (blood) cells |
dialysis | separation of wastes from the blood by using a machine that does the job of the kidney |
malignant | harmful, cancerous |