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79 Cards in this Set
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Acusis, -acusis, -acousis
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Hearing
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Algesi/o, alge-, algo-,
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Pain
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Audi/o
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Hearing
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Dia-
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Across, through
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Esthesi/o, -esthesia
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Sensations
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Kines/i
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Movement, motion
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Lith/o, -lith
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Stone or calculus
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Metr/o
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Uterus, measurement
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Muc/o, Myx/o
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Mucus
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Myc/o, mycet-, myces,-mycin
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Fungus
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Myring/o
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Eardrum
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Osm/o
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Smell, odor, or osmosis
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Ot/o
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Ear
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Hemi-
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One-half
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Para-
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Beyond, beside, abnormal, involvement of two like parts
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Presby-
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OLD
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Salping/o
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trumpet, auditory tube, uterine or Fallopian tube
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Stere/o
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Solid, three-deminisions
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Tinnitus
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Noises in the ear (ringing, buzzing, roaring, etc.)
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Tympan/o
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Drum or middle ear
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Vertigo
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An illusion or movement, either of the external world revolving around the subject or the subject revolving (not faintness)
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-Meter
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instrument to measure
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-metry
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measuring
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-odynia
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Pain
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-osmia
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smell, odor
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-phasia
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Speech
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-plegia
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Paralysis, stroke
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-taxia, -taxis, -taxy
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Arrangement, order
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Diapedesis
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Passage of blood cells through unruptured vessel wall into the tissues
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Audiology; Otology
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Science of hearing and diseases of the ears
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Algesimeter (Algesiometer)
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An instrument used in measuring the sensitiveness to pain.
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Myalgia
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Pain in the muscle
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Lithotomy
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Incision of a duct or organ, especially the bladder, for removal of a calculus (stone).
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Kinesia
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Any form of motion sickness.
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Anesthesia
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Loss of sensation
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Mycosis
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Any disease induced by a fungus
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Mucoenteritis
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Inflammation of the intestinal mucous membrane
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Myxoma
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A tumor composed of mucous tissue
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Endometrium
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Inner lining of the uterus.
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Hypermetia
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Condition in which voluntary movements overreach their goal
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Otitis
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Inflammation of the ear
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Osmometer
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Instrument for testing sense of smell. Instrument for measuring osmosis
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Myringoscope
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Instrument for examining the eardrum
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Presbyopia
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Condition of vision in the aged involving loss of accommodation
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Paravertebral
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Along-side or near the vertebral column
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Hemisphere
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Half of any spherical structure; lateral half of cerebrum or cerebellum
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Astereognosis
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Inability to ascertain the form or shape of objects by feeling them
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Salpingotomy
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Operation of cutting into the uterine tube
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Thermometer
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Instrument for measuring temperature
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Tympanitis
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Inflammation of the middle ear; otitis media
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Anosmia
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Lack of sense of smell
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Cardiodynia
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Pain in the heart; cardialgia
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Craniometry
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Measurement of the skull and its topography
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Ataxia
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Incoordination of muscular action
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Hemiplegia
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Paralysis of one side of the body
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Aphasia
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A weakening or loss of faculty of transmission of ideas by language in any form.
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Hyperacusis
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Abnormal acuteness of hearing
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Analgesia
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Loss of sensibility to pain (designating particularly the relief of pain without loss of consciousness).
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Anesthesia
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Partial or complete loss of sensation, with or without loss of consciousness)
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Aphasia
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A lack of ability to express ideas by language in any form (speech, writing, or signs) or failure to comprehend spoken or written language due to brain abnormality
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Ataxia
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Lack of muscular coordination
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Cardioplegic
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Relating to paralysis of the heart or an elective stopping of heart activity temporarily
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Endometriosis
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A condition marked by tissue resembling the lining of the uterus, the endometrium, located in abnormal places in the abdominal cavity.
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Hemiplegia
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Paralysis of one side of the body
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Hyperesthesia
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Excessive sensibility to touch, pain or other sensory stimuli.
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Isometric
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Having equal dimensions. In reference to muscular contractions, a contraction in which tension is developed by shortening does not occur.
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kinesthesia
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the sense by which muscular motion, weight, and body position are perceived.
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Myometrium
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the muscular layer of the wall of the uterus
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Otitis
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Inflammation of the ear
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Otomycosis
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Fungus infection of the external canal of the ear
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Paraplegic
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Pertaining to paralysis of both legs and ususally, the lower portion of the trunk
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Parenteral
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Injection or introduction into the body by any route other than the alimentary canal.
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Paresthesia
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Abnormal sensation without objective cause, such as numbness, tingling, or burning
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Presbyacusis
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A progressive loss of hearing due to advancing age
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Somesthesia, Somatoesthesia
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Sensibility to bodily sensations, consciousness of the body
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Synesthesia
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A secondary sensation from a stimulus addition to the one appropriate for the stimulus, either a subjective sensation or different character (modality) or different location
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Tympanic
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Pertaining to the middle ear cavity; tympanum. Resonant,bell-like
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Tympanoplasty
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Surgical correction or restoration of the hearing mechanism of the middle ear
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Dysmetria
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the inability to stop a muscular movement at the desired point or control the range of movement.
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