Child Health
Also called "Whooping Cough"
What is croup?
The process of taking x-rays of the soft tissue of the breast to detect various benign and/or malignant growths before they can be felt is known as
What is a mammography?
Makes up the largest group of neoplasms. They are solid turmors that originate from epithelial tissue.
What is a Carcinoma?
Process of growing old
What is senescence (aging)
Are disturbances of emotional stability as manifested in maladaptive behavior and impaired functioning. This may be caused by genetic, physical, chemical, biological, psychological, or social and cultural factors.
What are Mental Disorders?
A generalized growth retardation of the body due to the deficiency of the human growth hormone; also known as cogenital hypopituitarism or hypopituitarism
What is dwarfism?
A diagnostic procedure for studying the structure and motion of the heart.
What is Echocardiography?
Less common than carcinomas. These tumors originate from supportive and connective tissue such as bone, fat, muscle and cartilage.
What is a Sarcoma?
Branch of medicine that deals with the physicological characteristics of aging and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting older adults
What is geriatrics?
A child may regress to an earlier stage of development, such as bedwetting when confronted with a stress in his or her life.
What is Regression?
Another name for infectious parotitis is
What is Mumps?
Visualization of the metabolic activity of the brain and numerous body structures shown through computerized, color-coded images which indicate the degree and intensity of the metabolic process
What is the Positron Emission Tomography (PET)?
Refers to the extent of the disease and relative size of the tumor at the time of diagnosis.
What is Staging?
Benign growth that hangs from short stalk, commonly occuring on the neck, eyelids, axilla or groin
What are acrochordon?
A form of psychotherapy that analyzes the individual's unconscious thought (using free association, questioning, probing, and analyzing) is known as
What is psychoanalysis?
The abbreviation for the condition known as "crib death", which is the completely unexpected death of an apparently well infant.
What is SIDS?
Delivery of ionizing radiation to accomplish the destruction of rapidly multiplying tumor cells
What is Radiation Therapy?
The use of cytotoxic drugs and chemicals to achieve a cure, decrease tumor size, provide relief of pain or slow metastasis
What is Chemotheraphy?
Disease of the heart muscle itself, primarily affecting the pumping ability of the heart. This noninflammatory disease of the heart results in enlargement of the heart (cardiomegaly) and dysfunction of the ventricles of the heart.
What is a Cardiomyopathy?
An ego defense mechanism whereby an individual unconsciously identifies with another person or with some object and assumes the supposed feelings and/or characteristics of the other personality or object is known as
What is Introjection?
An abnormal increase of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, which causes the ventricles of the brain to dilate, resulting in an increased head circumference in the infant with open fontane(s) is
What is Hydrocephalus?
An ultrasound examination important in distinguishing solid thyroid nodules from cystic nodules
What is a Thyroid echogram?
The medical term that means "pertaining to a structure with a stalk"
What is pedunculated?
A break in the continuity of the bone involving the upper third of the femur
What is a fracture of the hip?
Loss of memory caused by severe emotional trauma, brain injury, substance abuse or reaction to medications or toxins
What is amnesia?