Anatomy - Key Concepts/Medical Terminology

A disease that has no known cause is called a…

Idiopathic

Damage to the body’s tissue, caused by physical trauma or repetitive stress, is called what?

Injury

The CDC policy for controlling transmission of infections carried by blood and other bodily fluids is known as:

Standard/Universal Precautions

What are Signs?

Objective indicators of disease

What are Symptoms?

The subjective evidence of disease, condition, or physical disturbance reported by the client

The second phase of the inflammatory response where new blood vessels develop and tissue regenerates

Subacute

How long does the subacute stage typically last?

7+ days - 8 weeks

Flare-ups is a common term to describe:

Periods when the signs or symptoms of a disease increase suddenly

The act of identifying a disease or condition by examining someone or something that includes a statement that names the disease or condition and may provide reasons for the disease or condition is known as:

Diagnosis

Pain the persists for a period of time long past the point of typical injury recovery, or in relation to an ongoing medical condition

Chronic pain

Transmission of a pathogen through contact with an inanimate object called a fomite is known as:

Indirect contact

Practices meant to prevent the spread of disease are generally referred to as:

Infection control

A general term that refers to a disease or injury with the sudden onset of severe signs and symptoms

Acute

New behaviors of offset a weakness as when the body adopts new way of moving as a means to protect a weakened area and to manage the resulting loss of function are called:

Compensation Patterns

Traumatic injury

An injury or wound to the body caused by an extreme external force

A situation, such as a fever, vomiting, a cold, etc., in which a client should not receive a massage

Absolute Contraindiction

A condition, such as a broken bone, for which a client should not receive a massage in that area but can still receive massage in other areas

Local Contraindication

Client conditions that render certain techniques or massage treatments inadvisable

Contraindication

When a therapeutic treatment is likely to benefit a client and have no adverse reactions

Indication

Objects or materials which are likely to carry infection

Fomite

Living organisms that transmit pathogens from one host to another

Vector

A condition where tissue repair and maturation do not progress normally and the tissue enters a recurrent inflammatory process

Chronic inflammation

A disease or condition caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome, especially a condition that is present since birth

Genetic Disorders

-algia

Pain

-ectomy

Excision

-gram

Record

-ia

Condition of

-ian, -ist

Specialist

-itis

Inflammation

-ology

The study of

-oid

Resembling, like

-oma

Tumor

a-, an-

No, not, without

anti-, contra-

Against, opposite

dia-

Through

endo-

Within

ex-

Out

hyper-

Excessive

hypo-

Deficient

peri-

Around, surrounding

pro-, ante-

Before

re-

Again, back

sub-

Under, below

trans-

Across, through

aden/o

Gland

arthr/o

Joint

cardi/o

Heart

Cephal/o

Brain, Head

cervic/o

Neck

chondr/o

Cartilage

crani/o

Skull