Exam 1 & 2
Medical term used to describe a disease with a short, relatively severe course.
What is acute?
Medical term meaning "severe chest pain caused by an insufficient supply of blood to the heart itself"
What is angina pectoris?
Medical term for the surgical removal of the gallbladder.
What is Cholecystectomy ?
A sac located on the skin that is filled with fluid of semisolid material.
What is a cyst?
A deficiency of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) produced by the pituitary gland or an inability of the kidneys to respond to ADH.
What is Diabetes Insipidus?
Medical term meaning abnormal accumulation of fluid in the tissue that results in swelling.
What is edema?
Name for the chronic disease process where the lungs ability to perform their ventilatory function is decreased.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?
Medical term for the presence of stones in the gallbladder.
What is cholelithiasis?
Name for the neurological condition of temporary facial paralysis that is usually unilateral and resembles a stroke.
What is Bell Palsy?
The medical term for excessive thyroid secretion or a "thyroid storm".
What is thyrotoxicosis?
The medical term meaning "cyanosis of the extremities"
What is acrocyanosis?
Medical term used to describe the ballooning of a wall of a cerebrovascular artery.
What is aneurysm?
Another name for the digestive tract.
What is alimentary canal?
The term used to describe a patient experiencing an acute, reversible state of agitated confusion, marked by disorientation, hallucinations, or delusions.
What is delirium?
The primary treatment for cancer.
What is surgical excision?
Combining form meaning "cold"
What is "cryo"?
This pulmonary diagnostic procedure measures air taken into and expelled from the lungs.
What is spirometry?
Combining form meaning "sugar"
What is Glycos/o?
A radiologic test used in diagnosing sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, and insomnia through recording activity of both the body and the brain during sleep.
What is polysomnogram?
Ductless glands that secrete their hormones into the bloodstream.
What are endocrine glands?
This type of immunity is formed by contracting a disease and producing memory cells.
What is active immunity?
Name for the procedure performed to drain fluid that has accumulated on the lungs.
What is pneumocentesis?
Medical term for the surgical creation of a new opening into the stomach through the abdominal wall.
What is Gastrostomy?
Suffix meaning "weakness"
What is -asthenia?
Special receptors that initiate the sense of pain.
What are nociceptors?