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This word part means gland or glandular tissue.
What is aden/o?
The body cavity that contains the major organs of digestion.
What is abdominal cavity?
The spread of a disease through contact with blood or other body fluids contaminated with blood.
What is bloodborne transmission?
A genetic structure located within the nucleus of each cell.
What is chromosome?
Abnormal softening of a gland.
What is adenomalacia?
The study of the functions of the body structures.
What is physiology?
Situated farthest from the midline or beginning of a body structure.
What is distal?
Any disease transmitted from one person to another either directly or by indirect contact with contaminated objects.
What is communicable disease?
Glands that secrete chemical substances into ducts leading either to other organs or out of the body.
What are exocrine glands?
A group of hereditary bleeding disorders in which a blood-clotting factor is missing.
What is hemophilia?
Tail or lower part of body.
What is caud/o; caudal?
The region located above the stomach.
What is epigastric region?
An abnormal condition that exists at the time of birth.
An illness without known cause.
What is idiopathic disorder?
A pathological condition caused by an absent or defective gene.
What is genetic disorder?
A disease outbreak occurring over a large geographic area, possibly worldwide.
What is pandemic?
Relating to the groin; refers to the entire lower portion of the abdomen including the groin.
Unfavorable response due to prescribed medical treatment.
What is iatrogenic illness?
A general increase in the bulk of a body part or organ that is due to an increase in the size, but not in the number, of the cells in the tissues.
What is hypertrophy?
Illness caused by a living pathogenic organisms such as bacteria and viruses.
What is infectious disease?
A malignant tumor that originates in glandular tissue.
What is adenocarcinoma?
The horizontal plane that divides the body into upper and lower portions.
What is transverse plane?
A deviation from what is regarded as normal.
What is anomaly?
The study of the causes of diseases.
What is etiology?
A genetic disorder in which the essential digestive enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase is missing.
What is phenylketonuria?