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74 Cards in this Set
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carp/o |
wrist bones |
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cib/o |
meals |
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cost/o |
rib |
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cutane/o |
skin |
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dactyl/o |
fingers/toes |
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gloss/o |
tongue |
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pub/o |
pubis (anterior portion of the pelvis) |
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thel/o/theli/o |
nipple |
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thyr/o |
thyroid |
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trache/o |
windpipe |
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-blast |
embryonic, immature |
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-drome |
to run |
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-fusion |
coming together; to pour |
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-lapse |
to slide, fall, sag |
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-lysis |
breakdown, destruction, separation |
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-meter |
to measure |
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-oxia |
oxygen |
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-partum |
birth, labor |
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-phoria |
to bear, carry; feeling |
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-pnea |
breathing |
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-rrhea |
flow, discharge |
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ad- |
toward |
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ana- |
up, apart |
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ante- |
before, forward |
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anti- |
against |
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auto- |
self |
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brady- |
slow |
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contra- |
against, opposite |
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de- |
down, lack ofd |
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dys- |
painful, bad, difficult, abnormal |
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eu- |
good, normal |
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hemi- |
half |
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mal- |
bad |
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neo- |
new |
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pan- |
all |
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syn-/sym- |
together |
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intra- |
in, within, into |
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inter- |
between |
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infra- |
beneath, under |
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abduction |
moving away from |
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adduction |
moving towards |
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contralateral |
opposite side |
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ipsilateral |
same side |
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sign |
objective finding perceived by the examiner |
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symptom |
subjective finding/subjective change in condition as perceived by the patient |
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adrenal glands/suprarenal glands |
glands located above the kidney that are responsible for secreting hormones (remember to study these) |
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adrenal cortex |
outer part of the adrenal gland |
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adrenal medulla |
inner part of the adrenal glands |
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autoimmune |
the body makes antibodies against its own cells |
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ectopic pregnancy |
embryo implanted outside the uterus |
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prolapse |
to sag/fall forward |
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-ptosis |
to sag (more commonly used to describe drooping of eyelids) |
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proptosis |
forward prolapse |
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exopthalmus |
eyes are pushed forward |
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Cushing's syndrome |
chronic excess glucocorticoid, used to treat other diseases |
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Cushing disease |
caused by excess secretion of ACTH by the pituitary |
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Addison's disease |
chronic adrenocortical insufficiency |
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symphysis |
type of joint formed by cartilage |
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symbiosis |
organisms in close association that either has mutual benefit or not |
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parasitism |
a type of symbiosis but one organism benefits while the other does not |
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antigen |
a foreign substance that stimulates the production of antibodies |
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antibodies |
protein substances made by WBC in response to the presence of foreign antigens |
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immune reaction (protection) |
the reaction where antibodies attack and destroy the antigens |
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Rh factor |
determines the "+" or the "-" of the blood type |
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congenital anomaly |
an abnormality that the baby is born with |
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recombinant DNA |
a procedure that takes a gene from one organism and inserts it (recombining it) into the DNA of another organism |
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polymerase chain reaction (PCR) |
method of producing multiple copies of a single gene |
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syndrome |
a group of signs or symptoms that are grouped together to produce a typical clinical picture |
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Reye's syndrome |
acute encephalopathy with cerebral edema and fatty infiltration of the liver |
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Marfan syndrome |
inherited connective tissue disorder |
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arachnodactyly |
spider-like appendages |
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fetal alcohol syndrome |
a syndrome caused by the mother consuming alcohol throughout the pregnancy |
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TURP |
transurethral resection of the prostate |
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ultrasonography |
uses ultrasound waves to create images or photographs |
