Endocrine
Prefix meaning false, deception
What is 'pseud/o'?
Prefixes meaning digestion
What are 'peps/o' and 'pept/o'?
Prefixes meaning without, no
What are 'a-' and 'an-'?
HBC meaning
What is 'hit by car'?
The body's natural painkiller
What are 'endorphins'?
Suffix meaning degeneration, wasting
What is '-trophy'?
Suffix meaning downward placement, drooping
What is '-ptosis'?
Suffix meaning surgical puncture
What is '-centesis'?
DOA meaning
What is 'dead on arrival'?
The rumbling noise gas makes as it travels through the stomach and intestines
What is 'borborygmus'?
Definition of 'crin/o'
What is 'secrete'?
Definition of 'odont/o'
What is teeth?
Definition of 'derm/o' and 'dermat/o' and 'cutane/o'
What is 'skin'?
Bx meaning
What is 'biopsy'?
Cells that have appropriate receptors on their cell walls to allow attachment of a specific molecule
What are 'target cells'?
Definition of thyroidectomy
What is 'removal of the thyroid gland'?
Definition of polydipsia
What is 'excessive/abnormal rhirst'?
Definition of folliculitis
What is 'inflammation of the follicle (hair)'?
TPN meaning
What is 'total parental nutrition'?
Definition of ecchymosis
What is 'a bruise' or blood leaking from a ruptured vessel into subcutaneous tissue?
Word for disease of a gland, usually lymph
What is 'adenopathy'?
Word for paralysis of the esophagus
What is 'esophagoplegia'?
Word for thickened skin, like that of an elephant
What is 'pachyderma'?
LDA meaning
What is 'left displaced abomasum'?
Word meaning to produce/discharge
What is 'suppurate'?