Body Parts 1
The Medical Terminology for bone
What is ost(eo)
What is the Medical Terminology word for the study of?
What is -logy
What is the Medical Terminology word for inflammation of the stomach?
What is gastritis
What is a medical procedure that removes damaged, dead, or infected tissue from a wound to help it heal ?
What is debridement
What is the the medical term for when you stop breathing while asleep or have almost no airflow
What is apnea?
The elbow is _____ to the wrist.
What is distal
Medical term that refers to a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the body
What is erythropenia
What are the two Medical Terminology words for lung?
What is Pneum/o , pulm/o
What is the Medical Terminology word for specialist in medicine focusing on diseases of the skeletal and muscular systems?
What is an orthopedist?
What is the Medical Terminology word part for bones?
What is Oste/o
Where is your umbilicus (navel) located?
What is the abdomen
What is the partial or complete wasting away of a body part, organ, cell, or tissue.
What is atrophy
What is the body plane that splits your body in half left to right?
Sagittal
Medical term for a benign tumor made up of blood vessels or lymph vessels.
What is angioma
What are the 2 Medical Terminology terms for kidney?
What is ren- or nephr-
What is the Medical Terminology word for medical doctor who specialize in the study of the female body?
What is gynecologist
What is the Medical Terminology word part for lower back?
What is lumb/o
What is the Medical Terminology term for a protrusion of part of the liver through the abdominal wall or through the diaphragm.
What is a hepatocele
What is the medical term for shortness of breath or the feeling of uncomfortable breathing
What is dyspnea
List all four abdominal quadrants.
LUQ, RUQ, LLQ, RLQ
Term for a minimally invasive procedure for removal of plaque buildup and open narrow or blocked arteries
What is artherectomy
What are the 3 Medical Terminology words for skin?
What is dermat/o, -derma, or derm/o
What is the Medical Terminology word for the study of the skin?
What is dermatology
What is the Medical Terminology word part for joint?
What is articul/o
What is the Medical Terminology word for a headache?
What is Cephalalgia
What is the medical term for a surgical or intervention procedure to remove a blood clot, or thrombus, from a blood vessel ?
What is a thrombectomy ?
Term for the space between the lungs It's the space within your chest that contains your heart, pericardium and other structures. It's the middle section of your thoracic cavity.
What is mediastinum
A disease in which there are too many red blood cells in the bone marrow and blood, causing the blood to thicken
What is polycythemia?
What is the Medical Terminology word part curve,swayback?
What is lord/o
What is the Medical Terminology word for a doctor who is an expert on hormones and metabolism. They can treat conditions like diabetes, thyroid problems, infertility, and calcium and bone disorders
What is endocrinologist
What are the 2 Medical Terminology word parts for tendon?
What is ten/o, tendin/o
What is the Medical Terminology word for runny nose?
What is "rhinorrhea"
What is the medical term for an uncommon noncancerous fluid-filled bump under the skin (cyst) caused by overgrown lymph vessels. ?
What is a lymphangioma?
The scapular region is ______ to the vertebral region ?
What is lateral
Term for a rare hormonal disorder that causes the body to produce too much growth hormone after the skeleton has finished growing:
What is acromegaly
What is the Medical Terminology word for -lithesis?
What is a slipping
What is the Medical Terminology word for medical doctor who specialists in digestive organs, including the stomach, bowels, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder. You might see them for abdominal pain, ulcers, diarrhea, jaundice, or cancers in your digestive organs. They also do a colonoscopy and other tests for colon cancer.
What is a gastroenterologist
What is the Medical Terminology word part that means to bind, tie together?
What is -desis?
What doctor treats you if your hair is falling out?
Dermatologists
What is the medical term for a surgical procedure that removes part or all of the lamina, the bony arch that protects the spinal cord
?
What is laminectomy .
The liver is mostly located within within which quadrant?
RUQ
A medical term that refers to a lack of blood supply to a part of the body.
What is Ischemia
What is the Medical Terminology word part for instrument to cut?
What is -tome
What is the Medical Terminology word for medical doctors who specialize in the study of the Kidneys?
Nephrologist
Nephr/o or Ren/o refers to the kidney
What is the Medical Terminology word for narrowing?
What is -stenosis
What word suffix indicates a pathological condition or pathological process?
-Osis
What is the medical term fora condition known as lower back pain, is a common condition that involves discomfort or pain in the lower part of the spine. ?
What is lumbodynia
The lungs are located within this cavity
What is the pleural cavity
A condition in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes.
What is ectopic pregnancy
What does the Medical Terminology word osteomyelitis mean?
What is inflammation of the bone and bone marrow secondary to infection
This is a doctor who a highly specialized ear, nose, and throat (ENT) doctor
What is an Otologist
What is the Medical Terminology word part for to grow?
What is -physis
Medical term for condition where knees angle in and touch each other when legs are straightened. Commonly called knock-knees
What is Genu Valgum
Medical term for a a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and thickening of the skin and other parts of the body
What is Scleroderma
Most digestive organs are located within the _________ cavity
What is abdominal
a rare, aggressive cancer that forms in the smooth muscles of the body
What is leiomyosarcoma