Medical terminology

Dys

Bad painful difficult

Hyper

Excessive, increased

Megaly

Enlargement

Algia

pain suffering

Ectomy

Surgical removal of a body part

Osis

Abnormal condition or disease

Malacia

Abnormal softening

Hypo

Decreased, deficient

Itis

Inflammation

Necrosis

Tissue death

Rrhage

Bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge

Ostomy

Surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface connects internal organ to body’s skin surface (s for skin and surface)

Otomy

Surgical incision to an organs closes it during procedure

Plasty

Surgical repair

Rrhaphy

Surgical suturing

Scopy

Visual examination

Ac

Pertaining to

Stenosis

Abnormal narrowing

Sclerosis

Abnormal hardening

Rrhea

Flow or discharge

Myelopathy

Any pathological change or disease in the spinal cord

Hypertension

Higher than normal blood pressure

Natal

Pertaining to birth

Pain is a

symptom

Myopathy-pathy

Abnormal condition

Leukocyte

White blood cell

Prognosis

The prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disorder

Edema

Swelling caused by an abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells tissues cavity’s

Acute

Rapid onset

Supination

Turning the palm of my hand upward

Palpation

Examination procedure, (feeling around, pressing)

Lesion

Pathological tissue change

Palpitation

Abnormal fluctuating Pounding heart

Exudate

Fluid such as pus that leaks out infected wound

Laceration

Torn or jagged wound or an accidental cut wound

Gasritis

Inflammation of the stomach

Suppuration

The formation of pus

Gastroenteritis

Inflammation of the stomach and small intestine

Trauma

Meaning wound or injury

Appendectomy

Surgical removal of the appendix

Eponym

A disease named for the person who discovered it

Inflammation

Localized response to injury or tissue destruction

Fissure

A groove or crack like sore of the skin

Neurorrhaphy

Suturing together the ends of a severed nerve

Tonsillitis

Inflammation of the tonsils

Tendinitis

Inflammation of a tendon

Syndrome

A set of signs and symptoms

Tenorrhaphy

Surgical suturing of a tendon

Gastralgia

Stomach pain

Pyoderma

Any acute inflammatory pus forming bacterial skin infection

Arteriosclerosis

Abnormal hardening of the walls of an artery

Fever is a

Symptom

dermatologist

a physician who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases or disorders of the skin

hypotension

lower than normal blood pressure

mri/ct

recording an x-ray of the blood vessels after the injection of a contrast

Thoracic

Term meaning above or outside the ribs

Mis-diagnosis

also known as a rule out

Fistula

an abnormal passage usually between 2 internal organs or leading from an organ to the surface of the body

erythrocyte

Commonly known as a red blood cell

Colostomy

The surgical creation of an artificial opening between the colon and the body surface

infection

the invasion of the body by a disease producing organism

arteriomalacia

is the abnormal softening of artery’s

malaise is the the first symptom of inflammation

False Just feeling unwell

Intramuscular injection

Means the Medication was placed directly within the muscle

abdominocentesis

Remove access fluid

acronym

It is a word formed from the initial letter of the major parts of a compound team

Phalanges

Bones in fingers

pathologly

Study of diseases

Remission

Temporary or permanent decrease or lessening or disappearance of symptoms of a disease

pyrosis

Heartburn, burning feeling behind chest bone

Ate contaminated food and developed

diarrhea

neuroplasty

surgical repair of a nerve

hemorrhage

loosing large amounts of blood in a short time

Arterionecrosis

Tissue death of an artery

intramuscular

between but not not within the parts of a tissue

neo

new

arteri/o

artery

arthr/o

joint

Cardi/o

Heart

Nat/o

Birth

Neur/o

Nerve

Rhin/o

Nose

Algia

Pain and suffering

Ologist

Specialist

Otomy

Surgical incision

Rrhea

Flow or discharge

Scopy

Visual examination

Cardiologist

Concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease is

Rhinorrhea

Runny nose

Arthritis

Inflammation of the joint

Natologist

Specialist in disorders of a newborn

Neurotomy

Surgical incision into a nerve

Carditis

Inflammation of the heart

Rhinalgia

Pain in the nose

Neuralgia

Pain in the nerves

Cardiotomy

Surgical incision into the heart

Rhinitis

Inflammation of the nose