MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

  1. IASIS
    DISEASE
  2. CENTESIS
    SURGICAL PUNCTURE
  3. XANTHO
    YELLOW
  4. PARA
    BESIDE,NEAR
  5. PERI
    AROUND
  6. IOD
    LIKE,RESEMBLING
  7. INFRA
    BELOW
  8. INTRA
    WITHIN
  9. PHORESIS
    CARRYING,TRANSMIT
  10. EU
    NORMAL
  11. BRADY
    SLOW
  12. POIESIS
    FORMATION
  13. META
    BEYOND,CHANGE
  14. STASIS
    STOP
  15. ECTASIS
    STRETCHING
  16. PTOSIS
    DROOPING,SAGGING
  17. LYSIS
    DESTRUCTION,BREAKDOWN
  18. ENDO
    WITHIN
  19. SCLEROSIS
    HARDENING
  20. RRAPHY
    SUTURING,STITCHING
  21. ECTOMY
    SURGICAL REMOVAL
  22. PTYSIS
    SPITTING
  23. HEMI
    HALF
  24. STENOSIS
    NARROWING
  25. TROPHY
    DEVELOPMENT,GROWTH
  26. PEXY
    SURGICAL FIXATION
  27. RRHEXIS
    RUPTURE
  28. HYPER
    EXECESSIVE;HIGH
  29. HYPO
    DEFICIENT;DECREASE
  30. paresis
    weakness
  31. ostomy
    opening
  32. otomy
    incision
  33. RESPIRATORY
  34. PNEUMOCONIOSIS
    DISEASE OF DUST IN LUNGS
  35. TRACHEOSTOMY
    OPENING OF THE WINDPIPE
  36. HEMOPTYSIS
    SPITTING BLOOD
  37. LARYNGITIS
    INFLAMMATION OF THE VOICE BOX
  38. THORACOCENTECIS
    PUNCTURE OF THE CHEST
  39. PNEUMOCENTESIS
    PUNCTURE OF THE LUNGS
  40. PHARYNGITIS
    SORE THROAT;INFLAMMATION OF THROAT
  41. PLEURODESIS
    BINDING TOGETHER THE LINING OF LUNGS
  42. CARDIO/BLOOD
  43. ATHEROSCLEROSIS
    HARDENING OF FATTY PLAQUES
  44. HEMATOPOIESIS
    FORMATION OF BLOOD
  45. VASORRHAPHY
    SUTURING OF BLOOD VESSEL
  46. CARDIOMYOPATHY
    HEART MUSCLE DISEASE
  47. LEUKOPENIA
    DECREASE OF WBC
  48. THROMBOCYTOPENIA
    DECREASE IN CLOTTING CELLS
  49. ANGIOGRAM
    RECORD OF THE BLOOD VESSEL
  50. ELECTROCARDIOGRAM
    RECORD OF ELECTRICITY OF HEART
  51. PHLEBORRHEXIS
    RUPTURE OF VEINS
  52. SKELETAL
  53. OSTEOARTHROPATHY
    DISEASE OF BONE AND JOINT
  54. SUBSTERNAL
    BELOW THE BREAST BONE
  55. OSTEOMALACIA
    BONE SOFTENING
  56. COSTO
    RIBS
  57. CLAVICLE
    COLLAR BONE
  58. ANKYLO
    STIFF
  59. SPONDYLO
    BACKBONE,SPINAL COLUMN
  60. MUSCULAR
  61. FASCIOTOMY
    INCISION OF LINING OF THE MUSCLE
  62. MYALGIA
    MUSCLE PAIN
  63. MYO
    MUSCLE
  64. FASCIO
    LINING OF MUSCLE
  65. HEMIPLEGIA
    PARALYSIS OF HALF THE BODY
  66. POLYMYOSITIS
    INFLAMMATION OF SEVERAL MUSCLES
  67. SKIN
  68. ONYCHOMYCOSIS
    NAIL FUNGUS
  69. SCLERODERMA
    SKIN HARDENING
  70. RHYTIDO
    WRINKLE
  71. KERATO
    HARD,THICK
  72. ADENO
    GLANDS
  73. MYCOSIS
    FUNGAL INFECTION
  74. XERO
    DRY
  75. RHINOPLASTY
    REPAIR OF NOSE;NOSE JOB
  76. URINARY
  77. URETEROLITH
    STONE IN URETER(TUBE FROM KIDNEY TO BLADDER)
  78. CYSTOSCOPY
    VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE URINARY BLADDER
  79. NOCTURIA
    URINATION AT NIGHT
  80. OLIGURIA
    LESS URINE
  81. HEMATURIA
    BLOOD IN THE URINE
  82. VESICOSTOMY
    OPENING OF THE URINARY BLADDER
  83. NEPHROPLASTY
    REPAIR OF THE KIDNEY
  84. NEPHROLITHIASIS
    KIDNEY STONES
  85. POLYURIA
    EXCESSIVE URINATION
  86. NEPHROLYSIS
    DESTRUCTION OF THE KIDNEY
  87. NEPHROPTOSIS
    DROOPING OF THE KIDNEY
  88. REPRODUCTIVE
  89. MENOPAUSE
    MENSTRUATION STOPS
  90. HYSTERECTOMY
    REMOVAL OF THE UTERUS
  91. SPERMATOGENESIS
    SPERM FORMATION
  92. GYNECOPATHY
    DISEASE OF THE FEMALE
  93. OOPHORECTOMY
    REMOVAL OF THE OVARY
  94. COLPOSCOPY
    VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE VIGANA
  95. ORCHIDECTOMY
    REMOVAL OF THE TESTIS
  96. VASECTOMY
    REMOVAL OF THE VAS DEFERENS
  97. COLPO
    VAGINA
  98. DIGESTIVE
  99. DIVERTICULOSIS
    CONDITION OF SACS IN WALLS OF THE INTESTINES
  100. COLONOSCOPY
    VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE LARGE INTESTINES
  101. CELIOGRAPHY
    RECORDING OF THE ABDOMEN
  102. DYSPEPSIA
    PAINFUL DIGESTION
  103. DYSPHAGIA
    PAINFUL SWALLOWING
  104. HEMATEMESIS
    VOMITTING BLOOD
  105. CHOLECYSTOLITHOTRIPSY
    CRUSH STONE AT THE GALL BLADDER
  106. SIGMOIDOSCOPE
    INSTRUMENT TO VIEW THE LARGE INTESTINES
  107. CHOLECYSTITIS
    INFLAMMATION OF THE GALL BLADDER
  108. LAPAROSCOPY
    VISUAL EXAMINATION OF THE ABDOMEN
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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
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