MGCCC Medical Terminology #2
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Adventitious sounds - ✔✔Abnormal sounds
Aerobic - ✔✔Uses or requires oxygen
Afebrile - ✔✔without fever
Alopecia - ✔✔baldness or hair loss
Anaerobic - ✔✔does not use or require oxygen
Anesthesia - ✔✔loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
Antipyretics - ✔✔Drugs that reduce fever
Anthropometry - ✔✔the science dealing with the measurement of the human body to
determine differences in individuals or groups
Aphasia - ✔✔loss of speech due to injury or illness
Atherosclerosis - ✔✔condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the
inner walls of the arteries
Auscultation - ✔✔listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
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, Bradycardia - ✔✔abnormally slow heartbeat
Bruit - ✔✔An abnormal blowing or swishing sound heard on auscultation of an artery
or an organ.
Cholecystitis - ✔✔inflammation of the gall bladder
Cirrhosis - ✔✔Chronic degenerative disease of the liver, chronic disease charaterized by
degeneration of liver tissue most oftern caused by alcoholism or a nutritional deficiency
Conjunctivitis - ✔✔inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye
Cyanosis - ✔✔a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes
Cytolysis - ✔✔the bursting of a cell
Dermis - ✔✔Second (middle) layer of skin, holding blood vessels, nerve endings, sweat
glands, and hair follicles
Dementia - ✔✔a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory,
thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes
Diaphoresis - ✔✔profuse sweating
Distention - ✔✔the act of expanding by pressure from within
Dysphagia - ✔✔difficulty swallowing
Dysrhythmia - ✔✔abnormal heart rhythm
Edentulous - ✔✔without teeth
Edema - ✔✔swelling caused by excess fluid in the body tissues
Essential amino acids - ✔✔Amino acids that are needed, but cannot be made by the
body; they must be eatin in foods
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Adventitious sounds - ✔✔Abnormal sounds
Aerobic - ✔✔Uses or requires oxygen
Afebrile - ✔✔without fever
Alopecia - ✔✔baldness or hair loss
Anaerobic - ✔✔does not use or require oxygen
Anesthesia - ✔✔loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
Antipyretics - ✔✔Drugs that reduce fever
Anthropometry - ✔✔the science dealing with the measurement of the human body to
determine differences in individuals or groups
Aphasia - ✔✔loss of speech due to injury or illness
Atherosclerosis - ✔✔condition in which fatty deposits called plaque build up on the
inner walls of the arteries
Auscultation - ✔✔listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)
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, Bradycardia - ✔✔abnormally slow heartbeat
Bruit - ✔✔An abnormal blowing or swishing sound heard on auscultation of an artery
or an organ.
Cholecystitis - ✔✔inflammation of the gall bladder
Cirrhosis - ✔✔Chronic degenerative disease of the liver, chronic disease charaterized by
degeneration of liver tissue most oftern caused by alcoholism or a nutritional deficiency
Conjunctivitis - ✔✔inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye
Cyanosis - ✔✔a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes
Cytolysis - ✔✔the bursting of a cell
Dermis - ✔✔Second (middle) layer of skin, holding blood vessels, nerve endings, sweat
glands, and hair follicles
Dementia - ✔✔a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, including memory,
thinking, and judgment, that is often accompanied by personality changes
Diaphoresis - ✔✔profuse sweating
Distention - ✔✔the act of expanding by pressure from within
Dysphagia - ✔✔difficulty swallowing
Dysrhythmia - ✔✔abnormal heart rhythm
Edentulous - ✔✔without teeth
Edema - ✔✔swelling caused by excess fluid in the body tissues
Essential amino acids - ✔✔Amino acids that are needed, but cannot be made by the
body; they must be eatin in foods
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