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MedTemCP 4 Words
MedTem Cp 4 Words
Word | Definition |
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Adrenal Glands | Endocrine glands located above each kidney. They secrete chemical hormones and adrenaline that affect the body's functioning. |
Antibiotic | destorys or inhibits the growth of microorganisms. Penicillin, the fist antibiotic, was cultured from molds and found to inhibit bacterial growth. |
Antigen | a substance, usually foreign to the body. |
Antibodies | protein substances made by white blood cells in respomse to presence of foreign antigens. |
Immune response | The reaction between an antigen and an antibody. |
Rh condition | A oerson who is Rh postive has a protein coating of antigen on his or her red blood cells-RBCs. |
Hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) | Rh+ enter the bloodstream and attack and destory the embryo's Rh+ RBCs, In result the embryo attemps to compensate for this loss by making many new, but immature RBCs. |
Bilirubin | A chemical pigment. |
Autoimmune | The body makes antibodies against its own good cells and tussue causing inflammation and injury. |
Congenital anomalies | Infant is born with webed fingers or toes and heart defects. |
Contralateral | The side of the body often demonstrates a deficit. |
Ipsillateral | The same side. |
Dialysis | Complete separation. |
Ectopic pregnancy | The zygote-ealy satge embryo, delops outside the uterus-most often in a fallopian tube. |
Ovarain | The zygote delops inside the ovary. |
Peritoneal | The zygote delops outside the uterus or the abdominal cavity. |
Parathyroid glands | Four glands are located on the dorsal side of the thyroid gland. The produce hormone and function entirely separately from the thyroid gland. |
Parathyroid hormone | Increases blood calcium and maintains it at a normal level. |
Prolapses | A organ or tissue slides forwardor downward. |
Uterus Fist-degree Prolapse | The uterus descends into the vaginal canal. |
Uterus Second-degreee Prolapse | The body of the uterus is still within the vagina, gut the cervix protudes from the vaginal orifice or opening. |
Uterus Third-degree Prolapse | The ehntire uterus projects permanently outside the orifice. |
Recpmbinant DNA technology | the process of taking a gene from one organism and inserting or recombining it into the DNA of another organism. |
Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR | a method od producing multiple copies of a single gene. |
Sydrome | A grpup of signs or symptomes that appear together and present a clinical picture of a disease or inherited abnormality. |
Reye Syndrome | Characterized by vomiting, swealling of the brain, increased intracranial pressure, hypoglycemia, and dysfuntion of the liver. |
Fetal Alcohol Sydrome | Affects infants whose mothers consumed excessive amount of alcohol during pregnancy. Its charactied by prenatal and postntal growth deficiency, cranifacial anomalies, and limp and heart defects. |
Marfan Sydrome | A inheried connective tissue disorder marked by a tall, thin body type with long "spidery" fingers and tows, elongated head; heart; blood vessels, and opthalmic abnormalities. Prsident Abraham Lincoln had this. |
Symbiosis | Two organisms living together in close association, either for mutual benefit or not. |
Parasitism | Another example of symbiosis. |
Symphysis | a joint which the boney surfaces are firmly united by a layer of fibrocartilage. |
Pubic Symphysis | The area in which the pubic bones of the pelvis have grown together. |
Transurethral | Resction of the prostate gland TURP, a portiion of the postate gland is removed with an instrument passed through the urethra. |
Ultrasonography | A dignostic techinique using ultrasound wave to produce an image or photograph of an organ or tissue. |
Echocardiograms | a ultrasound images of the heart. |
Sonogram | A getal ultrasound image. |