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Terminology4,5,6
key terms 4,5,6
Question | Answer |
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Referring to fats or a type of of connective tissue that stores fat | Adipose |
Referring to loose connective tissue, any small space, or to an areolar, a circular area of marked color | Areolar |
Denoting a mild condiiton, favorable for recovery, or a tumor that dos not metastasize | Benign |
Type of hard connective tissue found at the ends of bones, the tip of the nose, larynx, trachea, and the embryonic skeleton | Cartilage |
Treatment of a disease by administration of a chemical agent | Chemotherapy |
Flexible white protein that gives strength and resilience to connective tissue, such as bones and cartilage | Collagen |
Referring to a gland that secretes directly into the blood stream | Endocrine |
One of the four main types of tissue, forms glands, covers surfaces, and lines cavities | Epithelium |
Referring to a gland that secretes through a duct | Exocrine |
Band or sheet of fibrous connective tissue | Fascia |
Study of tissues | Histology |
Describing a tumor that spreads; describing a disorder that tends to become worse and cause death | Malignant |
The nonliving background material of tissue: the intercellular material | Matrix |
Thin sheet of tissue | Membrane |
Spread of tumor cells | Metastasis |
Lining membrane that produces mucus | Mucosa |
Fatty material that covers and insulates the axons of some neurons | Myelin |
Abnormal growth of cells;tumor | Neoplasm |
Supporting and protective cells of the nervous system | Neuroglia |
Conducting cell of the nervous system | Neuron |
Pertaining to the wall of space or cavity | Parietal |
Serous membrane; epithelial membrane that secretes a thin watery fluid | Serosa |
A procedure for evaluating the extent of tumor spread | Staging |
Internal organs | Viscera |
hist/o | tissue |
epi- | on,upon |
pseud/o | false |
-blast | immature cell, early stage of cell |
chondr/o | cartilage |
oss, osse/o | bone, bone tissue |
oste/o | bone, bone tissue |
my/o | muscle |
cardi/o | heart |
neur/o | nerve, nervous system |
pleur/o | side, rib |
peri- | around |
-itis | inflammation |
arthr/o | joint |
neo- | new |
mal- | bad, disordered, diseased, abnormal |
-oma | tumor, swelling |
onc/o | tumor |
papill/o | nipple |
aden/o | gland |
angi/o | vessel |
leuk/o | white, colorless |
graph/o | writing, record |
ultra- | beyond |
ant/i | against |
psycho/o | mind |
pre- | before |
idio- | self, separate, distinct |
iatro | physician, medicine |
pan- | all |
syn- | together |
chir/o | hand |
myc/o | fungus |
aer/o | air, gas |
an- | absent, deficient, lack of |
tox/o | poison |
diplo- | double |
strepto- | chain |
staphylo- | grapelike cluster |
py/o | pus |
septic | poison, rot, decay |
-cide | kill or destroy |
derm/o | skin |
corne/o | horny |
melan/o | dark, black |
sub- | under, below |
ap/o | separation from, derivation from |
pil/o | hair |
alb/i | white |
Example of alb/i | Albinism |
-ism | state of |
Example of-ism | Albinism |
cyan/o | blue |
Example of cyan/o | Cyanosis |
-sis | condition, process |
Example of -sis | Cyanosis |
bili | Bile |
Example of bili | Bilirubin |
Example of pil/o | Arrector pili |
Example of ap/o | apocrine |
Example of sub- | subcutaneous |
Example of melan/o | melanocyte |
Example of corne/o | corneum |
Example of derm/o | epidermis |
Example of -cide | batericide |
Example of septic | Aseptic |
Example of py/o | pyogenes |
Referring to a severe but short lived disease or condition | Acute |
Refers to any process in which pathogens are not necessarily killed but are prevented from multiplying | Antisepsis |
A condition in which no pathogens are present | Asepsis |
Referring to a disease that develops slowly, persists over a long time or is recurring | Chronic |
Identification of an illness | Diagnosis |
Illness; abnormal state in which part or all of the body does not function properly | Disease |
Killing of pathogens but not necessarily harmless microbes | Disinfection |
Occurrence of a disease among many people in a given region at the same time | Epidemic |
Study of a disease cause or theory of its origin | Etiology |
Worm | Helminth |
Microscopic organism | Microorganism |
Acquired in a hospital, as in infection | Nosocomial infection |
Describing an infection that takes hold because a host has been compromised by a disease | Opportunistic Infection |
Disease causing organism | Pathogen |
Study of the physiologic basis of disease | Pathophysiology |
Study of disease | Pathology |
An infectious protein particle that cause progressive neurodegenerative disease | Prion |
Prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on the condition of the patient and the knowledge about the disease | Prognosis |
Manifestation of a disease as noted by an observer | Sign |
Resistant form of bacterium;reproductive cell in lower plants | Spore |
Process of killing every living microorganism on or in an object; procedure that makes an individual incapable of reproduction | Sterilization |
Evidence of a disease noted by the patient; such evidence noted by the examiner is called a sign or an objective symptom | Symptom |
Group of symptoms characteristics of a disorder | Syndrome |
Referring to a generalized infection or condition | Systemic |
Treatment | Therapy |
Poison | Toxin |
An insect or other animal that transmits a disease causing organism from one host to another | Vector |
Baldness | Alopecia |
Muscle attached to a hair follicle that raises the hair | Arrector Pili |
Scar | Cicatrix |
Inflammation of the skin | Dermatitis |
True skin; deeper part of the skin | Dermis |
Outermost layer of the skin | Epidermis |
Redness of the skin | erythema |
Loss of cells from the surface of tissue, such as the skin | Exfoliation |
Skin | Integument |
Mass or raised area that results from excess production of scar tissue | Keloid |
Protein that thickens and protects the skin; makes up hair and nails | Keratin |
Wound or local injury | Lesion |
Dark pigment found in skin, hair,parts of the eye, and certain parts of the brain | Melanin |
Fibrous connective tissue that replaces normal tissue destroyed by injury or disease | Scar |
Pertaining to sebum; an oily substance secreted by skin glands | Sebaceous |
Oily secretion that lubricates the skin | Sebum |
A layer | Stratum |
Under the skin | Subcutaneous |
Producing sweat; referring to sweat glands | Sudoriferous |