ENCEPHALITIS

INFLAMATION OF THE BRAIN

APPENDICTIS

INFLAMATION OF THE APPENDIX

BIOPSY

THE REMOVAL AND EXAMINATION (OR VIEW) OF TISSUE

HYSTERECTOMY

SURGICAL REMOVAL OF THE UTERUS

HEMOPHILIA

A CONDITION OF UNCONTROLLED BLOOD LOSS

DYSPHAGIA

A DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWING

HOMEOSTASIS

THE TENDENCY OF AN ORGANISM OR SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN INTERNAL STABILITY

ANOREXIA

A CONDITION IN WHICH A PERSON HAS NO APPETITE

GASRITIS

INFLAMATION OF THE STOMACH

CONTRACEPTION

PREVENTION OF CONCEPTION

CONJOINED

WHEN TWINS ARE JOINED TOGETHER

APHASIA

THE ABSENCE OF SPEECH

ASEPTIC

STERILE, HAVING NO LIVING PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS

CIRCUMCISION

A SURGERY TO REMOVE THE FORSKIN AROUND THE PENIS

DYSLEXIA

A LEARNING DISABILITY INVOLVING IMPAIRED READING, SPELLING, AND WRITING ABILITY

BRADYCARDIA

ABNORMALLY SLOW HEART RATE

AMBIDEXTROUS

ABILITY TO USE BOTH HANDS

BIFOCAL

PERTAINING TO TWO FOCAL POINTS

ABDUCTION

AWAY FROM THE MIDLINE OF THE BODY

ANATOMY

THE PROCESS OF CUTTING UP

ANIOXIA

WITHOUT, OR ABSENCE OF, OXYGEN

EPIDERMIS

THE LAYER OF SKIN THAT IS OVER THE DERMIS LAYER

EXOTROPIA

CONDITION IN WICH THE EYE DEVIATES AWAY FROM ITS NORMAL POSITION

EXTRACELLULAR

OUTSIDE THE CELLULAR AREA

ESOTROPHIA

CONDITION OF WHICH THE EYE DEVIATES INWARD

INFERIOR

POSITION BELOW ANOTHER POINT OF REFERENCE

HYPERTHYROIDISM

A CONDITION OF EXCESS LEVELS OF THYROID HORMONES IN THE BODY

INTRAGASTRIC

WITHIN THE STOMACH

INTERVERTEBRAL

POSITION BETWEEN THE VERTIEBRAE

EPIOR

POSITION ABOVE ANOTHER POINT OF REFERENCE

HYPERCALGESIA

EXCESSIVE OR ABNORMALLY HIGH SEBNSITVITY TO PAINFUL SIMULI

ANTI-CONVULSIVE

A SUBSTANCE THAT STOPS CONVULSIONS

DIPOPIA

CONDITION OF SEEING A SINGLE OBJECT AS TWO IMAGES OR DOUBLE VISION

HEMIPLEGIA

PARALYSIS OF

HALF THE BODY

HOMEOSTASIS

MAINTAINING INTERNAL STABILITY

CT SCAN

COMMON SYNONYM

OF CAT SCAN

GRAVIDEPARA

HAS GIVEN BIRTH MORE THAN ONCE

CHRONIC

OF LONG DURATION

ACUTE

A DISEASE OF SHORT DURATION

ABDOMINO PELVIC CAVITY

BODY CAVITY INFERIOR TO THE BODY CAVITY

ENDOSCOPY

PROCEDURE USING A LONG FLEXIBLE TUBE

DIAGNOSIS

TERM FOR A FINDING FOLLOWING AN OBJECTIVE EXAMINATION

HYPOGASTRIC

ON TOP OF THE STOMACH

INFECTION

A COMMON CAUSE OF DISEASE

ANATOMY

STUDY OF BODY STRUCTURE

DORSAL

PERTAINING TO THE BACK

ANTERIOR

PERTAINING TO THE FRONT

HYPOGASTRIC

REGION OF BELOW THE STOMACH

ABRASION

SCRAPING OF THE SKIN

ABSCESS

LOCALIZED ELEVATION OF THE SKIN WHICH IS A SIGN OF INFECTION

CELLULITE

LOCAL UNEVEN SURFACE OF THE SKIN A SIGN OF  SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DEPOSITION

CICATRIX

SCAR

COMEDO

PIMPLE

CONTUSION

BRUISE

CYANOSIS

FORM OF THE COLOR BLUE

CYST

CLOSED SAC OR POUCH ON THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN

EDEMA

INFLAMATION, SWELLING, ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE SKIN

ERYTHEMA

BLUSH, REDNESS OF THE SKIN

FISSURE

NARROW BREAK OR SLIT IN THE SKIN

FARUNCLE

ABSCESS ASSOCIATED WITH A HAIR FOLLICLE

INDURATION

SIGN OF EXCESSIVE DEPOSIT OF COLLAGEN OR CALCIUM

JAUNDICE

ABNORMAL YELLOW COLORATION OF SKIN AND EYES

ACNE

UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITION OF THE SKIN RESULTING FROM BACTERIAL INFECTION OF THE SEBACEOUS GLANDS AND DUCTS.

ACTINIC KERATOSIS

PRECANCEROUS CONDITION OF THE SKIN CAUSED BY SUN EXPOSURE

ALBINISM

CONDITION OF THE REDUCTION OF PIGMENT MELANIN IN THE SKIN

ALOPECIA

LACK OR LOSS OF SCALP HAIR, BALDNESS

BURN

INJURY TO THE SKIN CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE TO FILE, ELECTRICITY, CHEMICALS, OR SUNLIGHT.

CARBUNCLE

SKIN INFECTION COMPOSED OF CLUSTERS OF BOILS OR STAPH

CARCINOMA

CANCER/TUMOR

CELLULITUS

INFLAMATION OF THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE IN THE DERMIS "INFLAMATION OF THE LITTLE CELLS"

DERMATITIS

GENERALIZED INFLAMATION OF THE SKIN EPEDEMA

ECZEMA

SUPERIFCIAL FORM OF DERMATITIS ALSO CALL ATOPIC DERMATITIS

ECCHYMOSIS

CONDITION OF THE SKIN CAUSED BY LEAKING OF THE BLOOD VESSELS IN SKIN

HERPES

VIRAL SKIN ERUPTION PRODUCING CLUSTERS OF DEEP BLISTERS

HYPERHIDROSIS

INDIVIDUAL SWEATS MORE OFTEN THEN NORMAL AMOUNTS

IMPETIGO

CONTAGIOUS SKIN INFECTION PRESENCE OF GOLDEN CRUSTS AROUND THE LIPS

DEBRIDEMENT

TO CLEAN A WOUND, INVOLVES EXCISION OF FOREIGN MATTER AND UNWANTED TISSUE (DEAD)

DERMABRASION

COSMETIC SURGERY WHICH THE SKIN IS SURGICALLY CHANGED TO IMPROVE APPEARANCE.

DERMATOAUTOPLASTY

SURGERY INVOLVED USING PATIENTS OWN SKIN TO HELP HEALING SKIN GRAFT

EMOLLIENT

CHEMICAL AGENT THAT SOFTENS OR SMOOTHS THE SKIN

ATAXIA

THE INABILITY TO COORDINATE MUSCLES DURING A VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY

ATROPHY

THE REDUCTION OF MUSCLE STRENGTH DUE TO AN INJURY IN A CAST OR BEING IMOBILIZED FOR A EXTENDED LENGTH OF TIME

BRADYKINESIA

ABNORMALLY SLOW MOVEMENT A SIGN OF UNRTLYING  BONE OR NERVOUS DISORDER

DECALCIFICATION

ABNORMAL REDUCTION OF CALCIUM IN THE BONE

DYSKINESIA

IS A COMMON SIGN OF PAINFUL MUSCULAR DISORDER

DYSTROPHY

MUSCLE WEAKNESS INHERITED THAT IS RESULTING IN GENETIC MUTATION. ( MUSCULAR DYSTROPTY)

HYPERTROPHY

SIGN OF EXCESSIVE MUSCLE GROWTH OR DEVELOPMENT

ACHONDROPHLASIA

DWARFISM IS A CONDTION BY ABNOMALLY SHORT LIMBS AND STATURE

ANKLELOSIS

CONDITION OF CROOKED JOINTS ARE ABNORMALLY STIFF AND MOVEMENT DIFFICULT. 

ARTHRITIS

GENERAL DISORDER RESULTING IN INFLAMATION OF DEGENERATION OF JOINT

ARTHROCHONDRITIS

articular cartilage within the synoval joints undergoes inflamation, caused by localized infection.

BUNION

ABNORMAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE JOINT AT THE BASE OF THE BIG TOE

BURSITIS

INFLAMATION OF THE SACLIKE BURSA

BURSOLITH

CALCIUM DEPOSIT WITHIN THE BURSA OF THE FOOT

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

REPETATIVE STRESS INJURY TO THE WRIST

CARPOPTOSIS

MEANS DROOPING OF THE WRIST

CRAMPS

PROLONGED INVOLUNTARY MUSCULAR CONTRACTIONS THE CAUSE PAIN WHEREVER THEY OCCUR

EPICONDYLITIS

ARE SMALL BONEY ELEVATIONS ON THE HUMERUS NEAR THE ELBOW JOINT INFLAMATION

FIBROMYALGIA

DISEASE UNKNOWN ORIGIN THAT PRODUCES WIDESPREAD PAIN OF MUSCULOSKELETAL STRUCTURES OF THE LIMBS.

FRACTURE

CLINICAL BREAK IN A BONE

GOUT

SHARP PAINS IN THE TOES

HERNIATED DISK

RUPTURE OF AN INTERVERTEBRAL DISK

ANISOCYTOSIS

RED BLOOD CELLS OF UNEQUAL SIZE

BACTEREMIA

PRESENCE OF BACTERIA IN THE BLOOD

ERYTHROPENIA

ABNORMALLY REDUCED RED BLOOD CELLS

HEMOLYSIS

THE RUPTURE OF THE RED BLOOD CELLS MEMBRANE

HEMORRHAGE

ABNORMAL LOSS OF BLOOD SIGN OF TRAUMA OR INJURY

INTESTINAL FLORA

BACTERIA IN THE GI TRACT

APHAGIA

THE INABILITY TO SWALLOW

ASCITES

AN ACCUMULATION OF FLUID WITHIN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY THAT PRODUCES A LARGE ABDONMEN.

CONSTIPATION

INFREQUENT OR INCOMPLETE BOWEL MOVEMENTS

DIARRHEA

IN WHICH FREQUENT DISCHARGE OF WATERY FECAL MATERIAL OCCURS

DYSPEPSIA

CONDITION OF DIFFICULT DIGESTION

DYSPHAGIA

CHRONIC FORM OF A SORE THROAT

FLATUS

PRESENCE OF GAS OR AIR IN THE GI TRACT

GASTRODYNIA

CONDITION OF PAIN IN THE STOMACH

HALITOSIS

BAD BREATH

HERMATEMESIS

SEVERE DIGESTIVE DISORDER SUCH AS BLEEDING PEPTIC ULCER

HEPATOMEGALY

ABNORMAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIVER