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Medical Terminology
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is the study of terms that are used in the art and science of medicine
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Prefix
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to fix before or to fix to the beginning of a word
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Word root
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is a word or word element from which other words are formed.
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Combining forms
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is a word root to which a vowel has been added
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Suffix
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to fasten on, beneath, or under
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Abbreviations
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is a process of shortening a word or phrase into appropiate letters
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Anatomy
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body structure; study of the structure of an organism
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Microscopic Anatomy
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Macroscopic Anatomy
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pertaining to objects large enough to be examined by the naked eye
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Physiology
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functions and processes of the body; the study of the function of an organism
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Disease
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literally means lack of ease, a pathological condition of the body that presents with a series of symptoms.
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Signs
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any objective clinical evidence of illness or disordered function of the body. A sign can be seen, heard, measured, or felt by the examiner
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Vital signs
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temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure; pain is consider to be the fifth vital signs
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Symptoms
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any preceptible change in teh function of the body indicates disease; symptoms may be acute
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Syndrome
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a group of signs and symptoms occuring together that characterize a specific disease or pathological condition
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Diagnosis
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determination of the cause and nature of a disease, which is most often determined through the process of knowledge
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Prognosis
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literally means a state of foreknowledge; prediction of the course of a disease and the recovery rate of the affected person
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Metabolism
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sum of all biochemical and physiological process that take place in the body
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Anabolism
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building up of the body tissues in the constructive phase of metabolism.
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Ophthalm/o
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eye
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Homeostasis
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result of an organism's systems working together to maintain balance or equilibrium by adjusting for constant changes
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Cytoplasm
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jelly like substance found between the cell membrane and the nuclear membrane
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Nucleus
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control center and part of the cell containing the chromosomes
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Nucleolus
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DNA
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deoxyribonucleic acid
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RNA
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ribonucleic acid
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Mitosis
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process during which a cell divides its chromosomes into two identical daughter cells, each having 23 pairs of, or 46, chromosomes
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Meiosis
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process in which cells reduce their chromosomal numbers in half to form gametes
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abdomin/o
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abdomen
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Oste/o
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bone
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Ot/o
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ear
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cardi/o
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heart
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Skletal musle
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voluntary or straited muscle (made up of cylindrical fibers) that allows movement by being attached to bones in the body
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Cardiac muscle
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type of involuntary muscle found in the heart, roughly quadrangular in shape, cross straited, and having a single central nucleus
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Smooth muscle
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type of involuntary muscle found throughout the body, compsosed of enlongated, spindle-shape cells with nucleus centrally located and without straitions
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Organs
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similary functioning groups of tissues that serve a common purpose
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Body system
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