Medical Terminology
Specialized language and terms used by the medical profession
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it means: nodule-a rounded lump or knot; heterogeneous means "composed of unlike parts. Therefore a rounded lump composed of...
A personal Profile is A Chart in which provides healthcare workers with Your current Medical conditions( diagnosis) and past...
An inherited characteristic (DNA) that allows an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
In medical terminology superior means above, referring to a part of the body that is situated over another or directed upwards....
GFR on a blood test stands for Glomerular Filtration Rate. This test is used to used to test how well the kidneys are working. It...
The columns of Bertin are normal structures in the kidney. Do you have a specific question about them?
The word vital has different meanings depending on use, they are the following: critical: urgently needed; absolutely necessary;...
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The history of the language of medicine and its derivations from Latin and Greek
The best way to study medical terminology (or any other terminology) is to use the Index Card Method. This is a great technique...
Koch's postulates, named for Dr. Robert Koch (1843-1910), are the four principles that define a disease as caused by a specific...
Ischemia means a reduced blood supply to an organ or body part. Antero- refers to the anterior, or front side of...
PM care too known as HS care is the care provided at night time/before bed-time.
Panaritium - an acute purulent inflammation of tissues of a finger of an arm. Panaritium dermal - a clump of pus under a false...
Thoughtful, reflective thoughtful, in the sense, of tending to think ---- ; pensive : 1362, from Old French pensif (11c.,...
TIA stands for Transient Ischemic Attack. A TIA is sometimes called a mini-stroke and is the medical term for stroke-like...
Anesthesiology is the medical practice of making sure you wake up from a usually invasive procedure after being put to "sleep"...
It is the medical term, hypoxia, specifically refers to an inadequate oxygen supply to the cells and tissues of the body in a...
In geological terms, dormant means a volcano that is currently not erupting but is not extinct. In terms of flora, many trees...
Four times a day, or each six hours. ------------------------------------------------------------- While QID literally does...
As with all technology, there must be a clear and precise way for nurses and doctors to communicate. It is a universal term of...
An inflamed cervix is often called dysplagia which is caused from infection or from repeatedly being hit by the penis during...
In physiology, any motion that moves away from the centerline of the body is abduction. If, for example, you are sitting down...
Intestinal Metaplasia is the replacement of normal gastirc cells to another diffentiated cell type. The most usual cause of this...
PO means "to take orally" or "by mouth", and BID means to take the medication twice a day.
A blown student (also called 'fixed and dilated') is when one or both of the pupils are big and do not respond (constrict) to...
It has several uses, for nausea after surgery, for OCD, as an antianxiety, too prior to surgery with a pre-op pain med to...
START EXERCISE AND DO JOGGING EVERYMORNING The cells of the fat are broken down by metabolism. Any chemical...
AnswerDMD is a Doctor of Dental Medicine. DDS is a Doctor of Dental Surgery There is no practical difference between a DDS and a...
There is no muscle in the penis; rather, the shaft of the penis contains cylinders of spongy tissue that fills with blood during...
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The Aorta is the largest artery in the body and it is located at the top of the heart. It ascends (rises up) out of the top of...
abnormally quickly (tachypnea), abnormally slow (technically termed bradypnea), or nonexistent (apnea).
It is the painless removal of infected toe nail. See the related link for a video of the process. CAUTION: It is graphic!
one A CC (cubic centimeter), like a ml, is a unit that measures volume. The word "Cube" in cubic centimeter comes from the fact...
It means that the bile is not being squirted onto your faeces which gives it the brown pigment, so it could means that something...
Atelectasis - Decrease or loss of air in all or part of the lung, with resulting loss of lung volume itself. "Pneumothorax" is...
WHEN A DOCTOR WRITES OUT A prescription, there are a certain number of things that have to appear on a prescription for it to be...
Axilla is commonly used in the US, but in UK another name for the armpit is the oxter.
To be without anything worth remarking on.
A prefix is the beginning syllable of a word. the opposite, a suffix, is the ending syllable of the word. Example: Music Mu is...
Competencies are the KSA that distinguish superior performers from average performers.Competence is the ability to meet the basic...
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When a person dies, all their muscles cease to function. This includes those muscles used to retain urine and fesces - the rest...
The act of intervening, interfering or interceding with the intent of modifying the outcome. In medicine, an intervention is...
The volume measurement unit cc (cubic centimeter) is usually replaced by the liquid volume measure unit ml (milliliter).
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This is a good question. There are two symbols which are often used in the medical profession to refer to medicine. These are the...
Orthopaedics - is the traditional spelling. It was coined in 1741 by Nicholas Andry when he published his workOrthopaedia: or the...
This question is too general - what part of the human body would you prefer to be described in medical terms? For example, the...
One cc is equal to one ml and these measurements can be interchangeable.
Hypergraphia
if you are doing a science project......you might wanna try diffrent liquids on the effect of (surface...
who should use them? why? anyone in the medical profession, it shortens the amount of time you would have to spend writing...
you have to name the weights and the excersizes, for Ex; bench press; triceps, pectorials. Ex; curls with hand weights; biceps. ...
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A bursa is a sac filled with fluid to protect the tendons (plural bursae). A bursa is an expansion of synovial membrane that is...
In medical terms, a symptom is a subjective indication of a disease or other physical condition. For example, itchy eyes,...
It is the ending up of the last paragraph; mainly the last sentence.
IT IS REFERRED TO as an "undescended testicle". When a male is young, the testes are up tall in the scrotum or "hidden". When a...
Double voiding refers to emptying the bladder twice, by urinating a second time 10-15 minutes after the first. It is a simple...
The general term you're looking for is "pyoderma". Py/o means pus, -derma means skin-related. An abscess is an example of this.
A 90 degree angle is a right angle.
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It means that viewing the organ/biopsy/structure/whatever with bare eyes (and maybe hands too) didn't reveal anything out of the...
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I wish someone would tell me because mine has been low for months and apart from a suggestion that I have an HIV test to rule out...
Gastro- and the suffix -ic means pertaining to. Therefore the word is gastric meaning related to the stomach, are both derived...
Medical abbreviations are acceptable when near medical professionals and when in a hurry in an emergency setting.
Inspiration or inhalation
In medicine, it's routinely written as a C with a horizontal line over it (impossible to replicate here!). An S with a horizontal...
Medicine was first used by celery the plant and there is many of medications and the first medication that i understand was used is...
Is it plain x-ray or plane x-ray?
TIA stands for Transient Ischemic Attack TIA stands for Transient Ischemic Attack
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Humans (and indeed some chimpanzees) have used special plants to treat ailments since ancient times and therefore nobody knows...
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To sanatize something is to inactivate or remove microorgansims from equipment and surfaces. Chemicals, heat, and ionizing...
Chronic means persistent over a relatively long period of time. Chronic means long-term, persistent, long lasting, or...
The parenchyma is a term used to refer to the functional cells (usually eptihelial tissue) of an organ, in your case the thyroid...
O.D is Doctor of Optometry, in other words an eye doctor. O.D. is too an abbreviation used to represent the right eye referring...
what is the medical term for abnormal hardening of muscle tissue Muscular sclerosis
The answer is 0.35 L. How you figure this one out is a simple equation. 1L is equal to 1000 ml. So you would set it up in a...
There isn't a combining form for the entire brain but instead only for the specific parts of the brain. Since it is a complex...
signs and symptoms It is usually written as "s/s" when documenting in patient medical records
kidney functions
Cervical More detail: The word you are looking for is "cervical", such as a cervical collar for a sprained neck, or a cervical...
Ethiosis is a rare type of skin condition. This skin condition involves very dry skin and in some cases redness on legs. To keep...
sinus tachycardia = rapid heartbeat borderline av conduction delay = a slight delay in the conduction of electrical impulse from...
Inflammation, usually related to disease or autoimmune disorders, that is confined to a specific area of the kidney.
The removal of an overy is called an oophorectomy or an oovariectomy.
The "OD" stands for "Doctor of Optometry" and the "FAAO" stands for "Fellow of the American Academy of Optrometry".
The abbreviation for "hospital" is "hosp." Also, hospitals often use acroynms. For example, "Citizens Community Hospital" can be...
its the fabealocious cell The word that mean pertaining to the windpipe or trachea is tracheal. The word that means pertaining...