Intro to Medical Terminology
The foundation of a medical term and contains its primary meaning
What is the word root?
Body plane that divides the body into right and left sides.
What is the sagittal plane?
The largest organ of the body.
What is the integumentary system?
Medical doctors who treat respiratory disorders?
What is a pulmonologist?
The study of the body's protection from invading organisms and it's response to them.
What is immunology?
This is created when a word root is combines with a vowel.
What is a combining form?
Body quadrant that contains the appendix?
the name of the outer layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
A genetic disease that is one of the most common types of chronic lung disease in children and young adults and causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract, possibly resulting in early death.
What is cystic fibrosis?
Blood disorder characterized by a deficiency of red blood cell production and hemoglobin, increased red blood cell destruction, or blood loss.
What is anemia?
This is a word element placed at the end of a word that changes the meaning of the word.
What is a suffix?
Position associated with semisitting position with head tilted to 45 degree angle.
What is the Fowler position?
Burn which effects the epidermis and part of the dermis and characterized by redness, blistering or large bullae, and pain with little or no scarring.
What is a second-degree burn?
Thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of arterial walls; also called hardening of the arteries.
What is arteriosclerosis?
Debilitating condition of localized fluid retention and tissue swelling caused by a blockage in the lymphatic system that prevents lymph fluid in the upper limbs from draining adequately.
What is lymphedema?
This is a word element attached to the beginning of a word or word root.
What is a prefix?
Patient position in which the patient is lying on their back with the table tilted head down. Commonly used for postural drainage.
What is Trendelenburg position?
Redness of skin caused by swelling of the capillaries.
What is eczema?
Blood supply to part of the brain is briefly interrupted but does not cause permanent brain damage and may be a warning sign of a more serious and debilitating stroke in the future; also called ministroke.
What is transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
Complete blood count.
What does CBC stand for?
Softening of cartilage
What is chondromalacia?
Positron emission tomography
What does PET stand for?
Surgical procedure used primarily to treat skin neoplasms in which tumor tissue fixed in place is removed layer by layer for microscopic examination until the entire tumor is removed.
What is Mohs surgery?
Medication that prevents clotting or coagulation of blood?
What is anticoagulants?
The retrovirus that causes AIDS.
What is HIV?