Intro to Medical Terminology

What term means the loss of a large amount of blood in a short time?

What term describes any abnormal condition or disease caused by a fungus?

What term refers to the resulting film produced by angiography?

What is the medical term for surgical repair of a muscle?

What term describes the frequent flow of loose or watery stools?

What is the medical term for a wound or injury?

What is the medical term for the surgical repair of a nerve?

What is the combining form that means plaque or fatty substance?

Which term means a word formed from the initial letter of each of the major parts of a compound term?

What does the term arterionecrosis mean?

What does the suffix in the medical term gastrosis mean?

What does the combining form POLI/O mean in the term poliomyelitis?

What does the combining form PYR/O mean in the term pyrosis?

Which statement describes the term ilium?

What does the prefix HYPER- mean in the medical term hypertension?

What does the suffix -GRAM mean in the medical term angiogram?

What is the medical term used to describe the time and events surrounding birth?

What is the medical screening of patients to determine their priority of need called?

What is a surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid known as?

What is the term for a localized response to an injury or destruction of tissues?

What is the study of the ears, nose, and throat known as?

What is the medical term for the procedure of removing tonsils?

What is the medical term for a prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease?

What is a pathologic change of the tissues due to disease or injury?

What is the term for the surgical suturing of a tendon?

What is the study of disorders of the newborn known as?

What is the term for abnormal enlargement of the liver?