Medical Terminology Chapter 6

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What is BACTERIA?

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Simple microscopic organisms that are wipespread throughout the world, some can produce disease. Singular: bacterium

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What is COCCI?

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Round bacteria, may be in clusters (staphylococci), chains (strephtococci), and other formations. Singular: COCCUS

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What is BACILLI?

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Rod shaped bacteria. Singular: BACILLUS

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What is VIBRIOS?

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Short, curved rod looking infectious organisms

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What is SPIROCHETES?

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Corkscrew shaped bacteria that move with a twisting motion

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What are VIRUSES?

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Submicroscopic infectious agents that can live and reproduce only within living cells

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What are FUNGI?

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Simple, nongreen plants, some are parasitic, includes yeasts and molds. Singular:fungus

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What are PROTOZOA?

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Single celled animals. Singular: protozoon

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What are HELMINTHS?

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Worms

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What is ACUTE?

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Sudden, severe, having a short course

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BENIGN

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Not malignant. A tumor that does not spread

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CARCINOMA

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Malignant tumor composed of epithelial cells

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CHRONIC

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Long lasting, slow progression

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CYST

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Non cancerous but abnormal sac or pouch filled with fluid or semi soft material

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EDEMA

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Accumulation of fluid in tissues

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ETIOLOGY

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Cause of a disease

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GRAM STAIN

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Lab staining procedure that divides bacteria into 2 groups

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HERNIA

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Rupture/protrusion of an organ through an abnormal opening

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INFLAMMATION

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Response to tissue injury: swelling,redness,heat,pain

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LESION

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Area of damaged tissue, an injury or wound

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MALIGNANT

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Growing worse, tending to cause death. Usually describes an invasive tumor

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METASTASIS

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Spread from one part of the body to another. Characteristic of cancer

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MICROORGANISM

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Organism to small to be seen without aid of microscope

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NECROSIS

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Death of tissue

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NEOPLASM

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Abnormal and uncontrolled growth of tissue, namely a tumor

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PARASITE

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Organism that grows on or in another organism

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PATHOGEN

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Organism capable of causing disease

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PHAGOCYTOSIS

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Ingestion of organisms

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PROLAPSE

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Dropping or downward displacement of an organ

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PUS

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Product of inflammation consists of fluid and white blood cells

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SARCOMA

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Malignant tumor arising from connective tissue

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SEPSIS

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Presence of harmful microorganisms or their toxins in the blood or tissue

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TOXIN

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A poison

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TRAUMA

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Physical or psychological wound or injury

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ROOT: alg/o, algi/o, algesi/o

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Pain

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ROOT: carcin/o

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Cancer, carcinoma

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ROOT: cyst/o

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Filled sac or pouch

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ROOT: lith

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Calculus, stone

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ROOT: onc/o

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Tumor

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ROOT: path/o

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Disease

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ROOT: py/o

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Pus

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ROOT: pyr/o, pyret/o

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Fever, fire

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ROOT: scler/o

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Hard

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ROOT: tox/o, toxic/o

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Poison

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PREFIX: brady-

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Slow

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PREFIX: dys-

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Abnormal, painful, difficult

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PREFIX: mal-

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Bad, poor

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PREFIX: pachy-

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Thick

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PREFIX: tachy-

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Rapid

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PREFIX: xero-

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Dry

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SUFFIX: -algia, -algesia

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Pain

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SUFFIX: -cele

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Hernia, localized dilation

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SUFFIX: -clasis, -clasia

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Breaking

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SUFFIX: -itis

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Inflammation

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SUFFIX: -megaly

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Enlargement

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SUFFIX: -odynia

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Pain

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SUFFIX: -oma (-omas, -omata (plural))

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Tumor

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SUFFIX: -pathy

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Any disease of

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SUFFIX: -rhage, rhagia (double the r when adding )

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Profuse flow, bursting forth

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SUFFIX: -rhea(double the r when adding)

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Flow, discharge

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SUFFIX: -rhexis (double the r when adding)

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Rupture

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SUFFIX: -schisis

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Fissure, splitting

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DILATION, DILATATION

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Expansion, widening

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ECTASIA, ECTASIS

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Dilation, dilatation, distension

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EDEMA

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Accumulation of fluid, swelling

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LYSIS

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Separation, loosening, dissolving, destruction

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MALACIA

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Softening

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NECROSIS

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Death of tissue

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PTOSIS

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Dropping, downward displacement, prolapse

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SCLEROSIS

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Hardening

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SPASM

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Sudden contraction, cramp

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STASIS

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Suppression, stoppage

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STENOSIS

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Narrowing, constriction

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TOXIN

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Poison

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PREFIX: staphyl/o

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Grape like cluster

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PREFIX: strept/o

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Twisted chain

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ROOT: bacill/i, bacill/o

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Bacillus

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ROOT: bacteri/o

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Bacterium

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ROOT: myc/o

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Fungus, mold

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ROOT: vir/o

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Virus

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ACID-FAST STAIN

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Lab staining test to identify TB

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COMMUNICABLE

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Capable of passing from one person to another

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ENDEMIC

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Occuring at a low level, but continuously in a given region

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EPIDEMIC

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Affecting many people in a given region at the same , a disease that breaks out in a large proportion of a population at a given time

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EXACERBATION

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Worsening of a disease, increase in severity of a disease or its symptoms

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IATROGENIC

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Caused by the effects of treatment

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IDIOPATHIC

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Having no known cause

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IN SITU

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Localized noninvasive

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NORMAL FLORAL

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Microorganisms that normally live on or in the body. Generally harmless, often beneficial, but can cause disease under special circumstances ( injury, failure of immune system)

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NOSOCOMIAL

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An infection acquired in a hospital

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OPPORTUNISTIC

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An infection that occur because of a host's poor or altered condition

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PANDEMIC

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A disease that is prevalent throughout an entire region or the world

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REMISSION

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The period disease symptoms lessen

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SEPTICEMIA

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Presence of patogenic bacteria in the blood/blood poisoning

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SYSTEMIC

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Pertaining to the whole body

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ABSCESS

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Localized collection of pus

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ADHESION

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Uniting of 2 surfaces/parts that may normally be separated

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ANAPLASIA

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Lack of normal differentiation

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ASCITES

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Accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity

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CELLULITIS

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Spreading inflammation of tissue

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EFFUSION

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Escape of fluid into a cavity or other body part

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EXUDATE

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Material that escapes from blood vessels as a result of tissue injury

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FISSURE

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Groove or split

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FISTULA

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Abnormal passage between 2 organs or from an organ to the surface of the body

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GANGRENE

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Death of tissue, usually caused by lack of blood supply. Can be from bacterial infection and decomposition

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HYPERPLASIA

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Excessive growth of normal cells in normal arrangement

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HYPERTROPHY

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Increase in size of an organ, without increase in number of cells

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INDURATION

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Hardening, abnormally hard spot

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METAPLASIA

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Conversion of cells to a form that is not normal for that tissue

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POLYP

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Tumor attached by a thin stalk

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PURULENT

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Forming or containing pus

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SUPPURATION

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Pus formation

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AF

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Acid fast

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CA, Ca

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Cancer

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CIS

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Carcinoma in situ

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FUO

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Fever of unknown origin

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Gm+

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GRAM-positive

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Gm-

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Gram-negative

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MRSA

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Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus

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Staph

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Staphylococcus

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Strep

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Streptococcus

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VRSA

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Vancomycin resistant staphylococcus aureus