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Chapter 10 Reading
Reading notes from Chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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amebiasis | infestation with amebas |
avitaminosis | lack of vitamins |
hyperdynamia | excessive muscle activity |
cardiodynamics | science of the motions and forces involved in the heart's action |
maxillary | pertaining to the maxilla |
labor mechanism | process of the expulsion of the infant and the afterbirth through the birth canal in labor |
defense mechanism | any self-protective physiological reaction of an organism |
metrectasia | dilation of the uterus |
hematometra | build up of blood in the uterus |
neonatal | new born |
psychoneurosis | psychic or mental disturbances |
dysneuria | impairment of the nerve function |
gastrohyperneuria | excessive activity of the nerves of the stomach |
-neurium | nerve tissue |
perineurium | connective tissue cover around the nerve fibers |
osmics | the study of odors |
pantosomatous | pertaining to the whole body |
pantalgia | pain over the whole body |
polcythemia | excessive number of red corpuscles in the blood |
postoral | situated behind the mouth |
postnatal | after teh occurence of birth |
posteriad | toward the posterior party of the body |
ramose | branching |
stricture | abnormal narrowing of the canal, duct, or passage |
spastic stricture | a stricture due to a muscle spasm |
integumentary system | entire covering of the body including skin, hair, nails, skin glands, breast |
-thermia | the generation of heat |
hyperthermia | fever |
-trichia , - trichosis | conditions of the hair |
nail plate | pulling out of a diseased or infected outer layer of the nail |