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Medical Terms
GNPG 528 - Review Exam #1
Medical Term | Lay Term |
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Ablation | Remove |
Acuity | Clearness |
Acute | Short term, sudden onset |
Adenopathy | Swollen glands |
Adjuvant | Helpful, assisting, added |
Adverse effect | Side effect |
Angina | Pain from not enough blood to the heart |
Arthralgia | Joint pain |
Asthenia | Loss of energy; Weakness |
Ataxia | Unsteady movement |
Bioavailability | The extent to which a drug becomes available to the body |
De Novo | New |
Diplopia | double vision |
Dyspepsia | Gas, upset stomach |
Dysplasia | Abnormal cells |
Dyspnea | Hard to breathe |
Electrophysiology study | Heart rhythm study |
Elucidate | To make clear; to determine; to find out |
Emperic | Based on experience |
Enteral | By way of the intestines |
Extravasate | To leak outside of a blood vessel |
Histopathologic | Pertaining to a disease of the body tissues or cells |
Iatrogenic | Caused by a physician or by treatment |
Induration | Hardening |
Inert | Not active; substance that does not affect you |
Interferon | Agent that acts against viruses |
Intrathecal | Into the spinal fluid |
Intravesical | Into the bladder |
MUGA | Procedure using a special camera to look at the heart after radioactive dye has been put into it through one of the veins |
Neoplasia | Tumor, may be non-cancerous or cancerous |
Osteopetrosis | Bone disorder characterized by dense bone |
Refractory | Not responding to treatment |
Seminoma | A type of testes cancer |
Stomatitis | Mouth sores; inflammation of the mouth |
Teratogenic | Can cause malformations in unborn fetuses |