-ologies
The study of tissue
Headache
What is cephalgia?
Unlike Mr. Grinch, patients with this condition have hearts that are too large.
What is cardiomegaly?
This procedure removes the male vas deferens to cause sterility.
What is the inflammation of many nerves?
What is polyneuritis?
This situation occurs when there is an unequal condition/size of blood cells.
Routine liver tests, like ALT and AST, maybe be selected when a patient has this condition, an abnormally enlarged liver.
This branch of medicine is also the study of glands.
A patient complaining of a racing heart would be found to have this condition.
What is tachycardia?
This is a surgery where the female uterus is removed.
This condition of nerve inflammation results in excessive sensation.
What is hyperesthesia?
A patient with this condition has a platelet deficiency.
Troponin is a common test run after a suspected heart attack, also known as a “blank” infarction.
This procedure is commonly performed to relieve swelling to the brain after traumatic injury
Patients who are hypoxic often display this tell-tale abnormal blue color to their skin and gums.
This inflammation of the cervix can be caused by various STDs.
What is cervicitis ?
Commonly used in surgery, this practice allows patients to feel no sensation.
What is anesthesia?
This is another term for RBC anemia.
What is erythropenia?
What is inflammation of the thyroid?
This area of medicine is one of two terms you were given that didn’t end in -ology.
What is pediatrics?
What is psychiatry?
This is a condition where free air becomes trapped in the pleural cavity.
Having one of these done routinely can help with early detection of breast cancer.
This term pertaining to the brain is often used to describe situations of higher or intense learning, like my class :)
This increase in WBCs may be an indication of infection or leukemia.
Cancer Antigen 125 is a common chemistry test run after a patient has an abnormal of one of these – a visual exam of the colon.