Diseases and Conditions
Levels of Organization
Body Structure
Medical Word Elements and Abbreviations
Procedures
100
this is a neoplastic disorder
What is cancer?
100
a cellular structure that provides a specialized funtion
What is an organelle?
100
body is erect and the eyes are looking forward
What is anatomical position?
100
symptom
What is Sx?
100
a noninvasive technique that uses radio waves and a strong magnetic field to produce images of internal structures
What is a MRI?
200
an example of a metabolic disease
What is diabetes?
200
a tissue type that covers the surfaces of organs, lines cavities, and makes up the epidermis
What is epithelial tissue?
200
this divides the body into 2 dorsal cavities and 2 ventral cavities
What is coronal plane?
200
this abbreviation means treatment
What is Tx?
200
an imaging procedure displaying the continuous motion of internal structures
What is a fluoroscopy?
300
the study of the cause of disease
What is etiology?
300
a complete, living entity capable of independent existence
What is an organism?
300
the body cavity that contains the lungs
What is thoracic?
300
Xanthocyte is a cell that is this color
What is yellow?
300
to destroy tissue by electricity, freezing, heat, or corrosive chemicals
What is cauterization?
400
a morbid condition is one that is : (a) normal (b) pathological (c) aggressive (d) objective (e) subjective
What is pathological?
400
this is a type of tissue that is composed of cells that are arranged in continuous shhets
What is epithelial?
400
the plane that divides the body into right and left halves
What is midsagittal?
400
the term that means producing or associated with the generation of pus
What is suppurative?
400
the surgical joining together of two ducts or blood vessels to allow flow from one to the other
What is anastomosis?
500
a disease of unknown cause
What is idiopathic?
500
the thoracic cavity is separated from the abdominopelvic cavity by this
What is the diaphragm?
500
this term refers to the upper-right abdominopelvic region beneath the ribs
What is right hypochondriac?
500
this compound word means enlargement of the internal organs
What is viscer/o/megaly?
500
a radiograph that produces a computer-generated , detailed cross-sectional image that appears as a slice
What is tomography?
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