Endocrine
Digestive
Integumentary
Abbreviations
Terms that Defy Analysis
100

Prefix meaning false, deception

What is 'pseud/o'?

100

Prefixes meaning digestion

What are 'peps/o' and 'pept/o'?

100

Prefixes meaning without, no

What are 'a-' and 'an-'?

100

HBC meaning

What is 'hit by car'?

100

The body's natural painkiller

What are 'endorphins'?

200

Suffix meaning degeneration, wasting

What is '-trophy'?

200

Suffix meaning downward placement, drooping

What is '-ptosis'?

200

Suffix meaning surgical puncture

What is '-centesis'?

200

DOA meaning

What is 'dead on arrival'?

200

The rumbling noise gas makes as it travels through the stomach and intestines

What is 'borborygmus'?

300

Definition of 'crin/o'

What is 'secrete'?

300

Definition of 'odont/o'

What is teeth?

300

Definition of 'derm/o' and 'dermat/o' and 'cutane/o'

What is 'skin'?

300

Bx meaning

What is 'biopsy'?

300

Cells that have appropriate receptors on their cell walls to allow attachment of a specific molecule

What are 'target cells'?

400

Definition of thyroidectomy

What is 'removal of the thyroid gland'?

400

Definition of polydipsia

What is 'excessive/abnormal rhirst'?

400

Definition of folliculitis

What is 'inflammation of the follicle (hair)'?

400

TPN meaning

What is 'total parental nutrition'?

400

Definition of ecchymosis

What is 'a bruise' or blood leaking from a ruptured vessel into subcutaneous tissue?

500

Word for disease of a gland, usually lymph

What is 'adenopathy'?

500

Word for paralysis of the esophagus

What is 'esophagoplegia'?

500

Word for thickened skin, like that of an elephant

What is 'pachyderma'?

500

LDA meaning

What is 'left displaced abomasum'?

500

Word meaning to produce/discharge

What is 'suppurate'?

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