Lesson 6 Etymological Notes & Shaded Blocks

Building Greek Vocabulary III

What is the meaning of the word Trichinosis?

Disease caused by ingesting the larvae of the parasitic worm Trichinella spiralis by eating raw or insufficiently cooked pork or wild game meat

What is the meaning of the word Trophic?

Hypotrophy?

Atrophy?

Hypertrophy?

Concerned with nourishment

Gradual degeneration and loss of function of tissue—usually muscle tissue—resulting from a decrease in the flow of blood to that part

Decrease in size of a part resulting from lack of cell nourishment, which occurs with long periods of nonuse of muscles in bedridden individuals

Increase in the size of an organ or part as a consequence of increased absorption of nutrients

What is the meaning of the phrase Cardiac Hypertrophy?

Increase in the size of the heart resulting from overgrowth of tissues of the heart muscle; caused by continued stress beyond normal limits

What is the meaning of the word Amyotrophy?

Dystrophy?

Muscular Dystrophy?

Muscular atrophy

Name given to any disorder of the body caused by defective nutrition, such as Muscular Dystrophy

Familial disease characterized by progressive atrophy of muscles

What is the meaning of the word Euphoria?

Dysphoria?

Sense of well-being or comfort

Sense of discomfort

What is the meaning of the word Ankylosis?

Ankylosing Spondylitis?

Abnormal immobility of a joint cause by some pathological changes in the joint or its surrounding tissue

A progressive condition in which inflammatory changes and new bone formation occur at the site of attachment of tendons and ligaments to bone

What is the meaning of the word Hermaphrodite?

A person with the genital organs of both sexes