LA & SA 1
Fatty deposit within the wall of an artery.
What is atheroma?
(ather means fatty substance, -oma means tumor)?
A pathologic change of the tissues due to disease or injury.
What is lesion?
An inflammation of the renal pelvis.
What is pyelitis?
(pyel means renal pelvis, -itis means inflammation)
Plural form of appendix.
What is appendices?
Meaning large, abnormal size or long?
What is macro-?
A grove or crack-like sore of the skin.
What is fissure?
Part of the hip bone.
What is ilium?
(i for 'hip')
The act of rotating the arm so that the palm of the hand is forward or upward.
What is supination?
Plural form of diagnosis.
What is diagnoses?
Meaning higher than normal blood pressure.
Referring to a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness.
What is malaise?
Subjective evidence of a disease such as pain.
What is symptom?
An examination technique where the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency and location of body parts.
What is palpation?
Which is singular and which is plural for diverticula and diverticulum?
What is diverticulum - singular and diverticula - plural?
Meaning above or excessive.
What is super-/supra-?
Fluid secreted by mucous membranes.
What is mucus?
Pain in a joint.
(arthr means joint, algia means pain)
A fluid, such as pus, that leaks out of an infected wound.
What is exudate?
Objective evidence of a disease.
What is a sign?
Means between or among.
What is inter-?
An abnormal condition or disease caused by a fungus.
What is mycosis?
A pathologic change or disease in the spinal cord.
What is myelopathy?
(myel/o means spinal cord or bone marrow, pathy means disease).
A condition of long duration.
What is chronic?
Means pertaining to a virus.
What is viral?
(vir means virus or poison, -al means pertaining to)
Means good, normal, well or easy.
What is eu-?
(ie. Eupnea means easy or normal breathing)