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Medical Terminology

  1. Inflammation (of the tissues) around the blood vessel
    periangiitis
  2. Softening of the heart (muscle)
    cardiomalacia
  3. Hardening of the arteries
    arteriosclerosis
  4. Pertaining to the heart
    cardiac
  5. Living together of two organisms
    symbiosis
  6. Membrane around the heart
    pericardium
  7. Pertaining to poison
    toxic
  8. (Abnormally) narrowing (of a passage)
    stenosis
  9. (Abnormal) rapidity of the heart
    tachycardia
  10. (Severe) pain along the course of a nerve
    neuralgia
  11. Study of the skull
    carniology
  12. Instrument for estimating the size of calculi
    lithometer
  13. Congenital absence of one-half of the brain
    hemicephalia
  14. Specialist in the study of bones
    osteologist
  15. Headache
    cephalgia
  16. Substance that is poisonous to kidney (tissue)
    nephrotoxin
  17. Measurement of a solid body
    stereometry
  18. Instrument for counting and measuring cells
    cytometer
  19. Increased heart rate alternating with slow rate
    bradytachycardia
  20. White blood cell
    leukocyte
  21. Hernia of the bladder
    cystocele
  22. Inflammation of the kidneys and bladder
    nephrocystitis
  23. Enlargement of the liver
    hepatomegaly
  24. Resembling pus
    pyoid
  25. Blue, grey, slate or purple discoloration of the skin
    cyanosis
  26. Excessively large mouth
    macrostomia
  27. Inflammation (of tissues) around the gallbladder
    cholecystitis
  28. Pain in the stomach and intestine
    gastroenteralgia
  29. Fat cell
    lipocyte
  30. Blue or purple discoloration of the extremities
    acrocyanosis
  31. Apparatus for measuring work
    ergometer
  32. Condition of having two heads
    diplocephaly
  33. Able to live both on land and in water
    amphibious
  34. Spasm of the hand muscles (writers cramp)
    cheirospasm
  35. Inflammation of the colon
    colonitis
  36. Around the liver
    perihepatic
  37. Science of health and hygienic living
    eubiotics
  38. (Pathological) softening of any structures of the mouth
    stomatomalacia
  39. Device for measuring (the degree of sensitivity to) pain
    odynometer
  40. Fleshy tumor (of the testicle)
    sarcocele
  41. Fewer than the normal number of fingers or toes
    oligodactylia
  42. Tumor composed of tissue
    histoma
  43. Skin cyst
    sarcocyst
  44. Study of the (human) body
    somatology
  45. Yellowness of the skin
    jaundice
  46. Lacking water
    anhydrous
  47. Inflammation of fibrous tissue
    inositis
  48. Tumor originating in the cells of bone marrow
    myeloma
  49. Resumbling an ulcer
    helcoid
  50. Muscular weakness
    myasthenia
  51. Having an excessive number of nails
    polyonchia
  52. Numbness following sleep
    narcohypnia
  53. Pain in the feet
    podalgia
  54. Excessive sweating
    hyperhidrosis
  55. Cells of equal size
    isocytosis
  56. Inflammation of the skin accompanied by (thicking and) hardening
    sclerodermatitis
  57. Inflammation of cartilage
    chondritis
  58. Disease of intestine from (bacteria or) fungi
    enteromycosis
  59. Under the (finger)nail; nail bed
    hyponychium
  60. Pain in the neck
    trachelodynia
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