Language of Medicine: Definitions

Medical Sciences Medical School 232c with Dr. Kerr at Bluefield College

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Anasarca

A generalized infiltration of edema fluid into subcutaneous connective tissue.

Pathognomic

Characteristic or indicative of a disease; one or two specific symptoms

Cachexia

A general lack of nutrition and wasting occurring in the course of chronic disease or emotional disturbance.

Pyrexia

Fever

Insidious

Denoting a disease that progresses with few or no symptoms to indicate its gravity.

Prostrate

Marked loss of strength, as in exhaustion

Palliative

Mitigating; reducing the severity of denoting a method of treatment of a disease or its symptoms.

Prophylaxis

The prevention of disease.

Paresthesia

An abnormal, spontaneous sensation, such as burning, prickling, tingling, or tickling.

Rebound Tenderness

Felt when pressure, particularly abdominal pressure, is suddenly released.

Stupor

Lethargy; unconsciousness

Obtund

To dull or blunt; especially to blunt sensation or deaden pain.

Somnolent

Sleepy, drowsy, having an inclination to sleep. Semi-comatose.

Claudication

Charcot's Syndrome; a condition caused by ischemia of the leg muscles due to sclerosis with narrowing of the arteries. Lameness and pain usually brought on by walking.

Gavage

Feeding by the belly tube

Lavage

The washing out of a hollow organ.

Dehiscence

A bursting open, splitting or gaping by the divergence of parts.

Evisceration

To disembowel.

Expectorate

To spit

Tussive

Relating to a cough

Contracture

A permanent muscular contraction due to tonic spasm or to loss of muscular equilibrium, the antagonists being paralyzed.

Diaphoresis

Perspiration

Viable

capable of living

Atelectasis

Airlessness of the lungs due to failure of expansion or reabsorption of air from the alveoli.

Transient

A short-lived cardiac sound.

Postprandial

After meals

Pile

An individual hemorrhoidal tumor

Ictal

Relating to or caused by a stroke or seizure.

Alimentation

Providing nourishment

Shunt

To change direction; divert

Pica

A depraved or perverted appetite; hunger for substance not fit for food.

Extravasate

To exude or pass out of a vessel into the tissues. Blood, lymph, urine.

Flaccid

Relaxed, flabby, without tone

Nuchal

The nape of the neck, back of the neck

Paroxysm

A sharp spasm or convulsion

Urticaria

Hives; an eruption of itching wheals; may be due to hypersensitivity.

Apoplexy

A classical term for cerebral hemorrhage, thrombus, embolism or vasospasm; CVA

Perfusion

Artificial passage of fluid through blood vessels

Catarrh

Simple inflammation of a mucus membrane, properly, chronic rhinitis.

Contraindication

ANy special symptom or circumstance that renders the use of a remedy or the carrying out of a procedure inadvisable.

Parenteral

Introduction of nutritive matter into veins and subcutaneous tissues.

Crepitation

Crackling; the quality or sound of a rale, which resembles noise, heard on rubbing hair between fingers; NOISE OR VIBRATION PRODUCED BY RUBBING BONE OR IRREGULAR CARTILAGE SURFACES TOGETHER AS BY MOVEMENT OF PATELLA.

Micturation

Urination

Turgor

Fullness

Calculus

A concentration formed in any part of the body, usually composed of salts of organic and inorganic acids or other material

Nevus

Birthmark

Normotensive

Indicating a normal arterial blood pressure

Scotoma

An isolated area of varying size and shape, within the visual field, in which vision is absent or depressed

Fasciculation

Involuntary contractions or twitching, of groups of muscle fibers, a courser form of muscular contraction than fibrillationsq

Clubbing

Broadening and thickening of ends of fingers; seen in chronic pulmonary disease

Formication

An abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the skin.

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