Lesson 4 Etymological Notes & Shaded Blocks

Greek Verbs

What does is mean that Greek verbs are Conjugated?

There are different endings for persona and number, and sometimes for tense, mood, and voice

Why do we used Compound Suffix Forms?

Some combining forms of verbs have become so commonly used in a certain form and meaning as to remain fixed as the Compound Suffix Forms

What is the name of Tetanus related to linguistically?

What were some signs of this disease?

What is a common other name for the disease?

Related linguistically to the nouns tasis (stretching) and tonos (tension)

Some signs include stiffness of the muscles of the jaw, esophagus, and neck

Disease is often called lockjaw

What is the meaning of the word Opisthotonos?

Emprosthotonos?

Pleurothotonos?

Orthotonos?

Position where the body is stretched backward in a tetanic spasm

Position where the body is stretched forward

Position where the body is stretched to the side

Position where the body is held rigidly stretched in a straight line

What is Tetanospasmin?

What produces it?

Toxin that causes the life-threatening illness Tetanus

Produced in infected wounds by the bacillus Clostridium tetani

What is the meaning of the word Idiopathic?

For a disease, one with an uncertain or undetermined cause

What is the Parotid gland?

What is the name for inflammation of this gland?

What is the name for the contagious form of this inflammation that causes Mumps?

Gland that runs alongside the ear, which supplies saliva to the mouth

Parotitis

Paramyxovirus

What is Rheum?

Rheumatism?

Watery discharge; used in the sense of a discharge of liquid from the body

Thought to be caused by the flowing of the humors in the body

Where does the word Capillary come from?

What is the meaning of the word Telangiectasia?

Comes from the Latin word capillaris, meaning ‘pertaining to hair’ (capillus)

Vascular lesion formed by dilation of a group of small blood vessels