General Medical Vocabulary

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Abate

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To lessen, ease, decrease, or cease. Used to note the Lessing of pain or symptoms

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Abnormal

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Away from norm or rule Absess

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Absess

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Collection of pus, which may occur in any part of the body

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Acute

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Sudden, sharp, severe, used to describe a disease that has sudden onset, severe symptoms, and short course.

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Adhesion

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A process of being stuck together. An abnormal adhesion usually involves the intestines and is caused by inflammation or trauma. This may cause and intestinal obstruction and requires surgery.

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Afferent

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Carrying impulses towards center

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Ambulatory

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Condition of being able to walk, not confined to bed.

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Antidote

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Substance given to counteract poisons and their effects

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Apathy

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Condition in which one lacks feelings and emotions, is indifferent

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Asepsis

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Without decay, free from all living organisms

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Axillary

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Pertaining to armpit

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Biopsy

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Surgical removal of tissue for microscopic examination, used to determine a diagnosis of cancer or other disease processes in the body

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Cachexia

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Condition of ill health malnutrition and wasting. It may occur in chronic diseases such as cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis (bad condition)

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Chronic

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Pertaining to time, denotes a disease with little change or slow progression

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Diagnosis (DX)

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Determination of the cause and nature of disease, which is most often determined through the process of knowledge

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Diaphoresis

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To carry through sweat glands.

Profuse sweating.

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Efferent

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Carrying impulses away from a center

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Etiology

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Study of causes of disease

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Excision

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Process of cutting out, surgical removal.

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Febrile

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Pertaining to fever, body temperature above 98.6 F

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Heterogeneous

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Pertaining to a different formation., composed of unlike substances : opposite of homogenous.

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Macroscopic

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Pertaining to objects large enough to be examined by the naked eye

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Malaise

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General feeling of discomfort, uneasiness, often felt by a patient with chronic disease

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Malformation

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Process of being badly shaped, deformed (cleft palate)

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Malignant

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Formation of a bad kind, growing worse, harmful, cancerous

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Microorganism

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Small living organisms not visible to the naked eye

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Necrosis

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Death condition

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Pallor

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Paleness, lack of color

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Paracentesis

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Surgical puncture of a body cavity for fluid removal

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Prognosis

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State of fore knowledge. Prediction of the course of a disease or pregnancy.

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Pyrogenic

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Production of heat (fire)

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Prophylactic

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Pertaining to preventing or protecting against disease or pregnancy

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A group of signs and

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A group of signs and symptoms occurring together that characterize a sign-specific disease or pathological condition