Medical Terminology Chapter 2 Flashcards

HORIZONTAL PLANE THAT DIVIDES THE BODY INTO UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS

UNFAVORABLE RESPONSE DUE TO PRESCRIBED MEDICAL TREATMENT

SPACE FORMED BY THE HIP BONES THAT PRIMARILY CONTAIN THE ORGANS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE AND EXCRETORY SYSTEMS

PATHOLOGIC CONDITION CAUSED BY AN ABSENT OR DEFECTIVE GENE

UNSPECIALIZED CELLS HAT RENEW THEMSELVES FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME THROUGH CELL DIVISION

ABNORMAL SOFTENING OF A GLAND

CHANGE IN THE STRUCTURE OF CELLS AND IN THEIR ORIENTATION TO EACH OTHER

ABNORMAL HARDENING OF A GLAND

THE ENLARGEMENT OF AN ORGAN OR TISSUE BECAUSE OF ABNORMAL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CELLS IN THE TISSURES

BENIGN TUMOR THAT ARISES IN OR RESEMBLES GLANDULAR TISSUE

GENERAL INCREASE IN THE BULK OF A BODY PART DUE TO AN INCREASE IN THE SIZE, BUT NOT IN THE NUMBER, OF CELLS IN THE TISSUES

SURGICAL PROCEDURE TO REMOVE A GLAND

INCOMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ORGAN OR TISSUE, USUALLY DUE TO A DDFICIENCY IN THE NUMBER OF CELLS

ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT OR GROWTH OF CELLS, TISSUES, OR ORGANS

MALIGNANT TUMOR THAT ORIGINATES IN GLANDULAR TISSUE

TENDING TO BECOME WORSE OR END IN DEATH, HAVING THE PROPERTIES OF ANAPLASIA, INVASIVENESS, AND METASTASIS, SAID OF TUMORS

TRANSFER OF DISEASE FROM ONE ORGAN OR PART OF THE BODY TO ANOTHER NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH IT.

BELLY BUTTON OR NAVEL

DEVIATION FROM NORMAL

RELATING TO THE GROIN

SITUATED NEAREST THE MIDLINE

SPECIALIST CARING FOR OLDER PEOPLE

REGION IS LOCATED BELOW THE STOMACH

TOWARD THE LOWER PART OF THE BODY

DEFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT OR THE CONGENITAL ABSENCE OR AN ORGAN OR TISSUE

TOWARD THE HEAD

STUDY OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE STRUCTURES OF THE BODY

MEANS SITUATED TO THE BACK.

BACK PART OF AN ORGAN

GROUP OF HEREDITARY BLEEDING DISORDERS IN WHICH A BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR IS MISSING

ILLNESS WITHOUT KNOWN CAUSE

SITUATED IN THE FRONT

GENETIC DISORDER IN WHICH THE ESSENTIAL DIGESTIVE ENZYME PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE IS MISSING

SPREAD OF DISEASE BY THE BITE OF CERTAIN MOSQUITO

GLAND SECRETES ONE OR MORE HORMONES DIRECTLY INTO THE BLOOD STREAM

GLAND SECRETES ONE OR MORE HORMONES INTO A DUCT

PRODUCES SYMPTOMS FOR WHICH NO PHYSIOLOGICAL OR ANATOMICAL CAUSE CAN BE IDENTIFIED

LOCATED BEHIND THE PERITONEUM

THE STUDY OF THE CAUSES OF DISEASE

MATERIAL WITHIN THE CELL MEMBRANE THAT IS NOT PART OF THE NUCLEUS

SUDDEN AND WIDESPREAD OUTBREAK OF A DISEASE WITHIN A SPECIFIC POPULATION GROUP OR AREA

SUTDY OF THE STRUCTURE, COMPOSITION, AND FUNCTION OF TISSUES

DESCRIBES AN INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEUM

ONGOING PRESENCEOF A DISEASE WITHINA POPULATION, GROUP OR AREA

BODY MAINTAINS A STABLE ENVIRONMENT, PROCESS THROUGH WHICH THE BODY MAINTAINS A CONSTANT INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

OUTBREAK OF A DISEASE OCCURRING OVER A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA, POSSIBLY WORLDWIDE

BACK OF THE BODY AND HEAD

FARTHEST FROM THE MIDLINE

FRONT OF THE BODY

REGION ABOVE THE STOMACH

STUDY OF THE STRUCTURES OF THE BODY

TOWARD THE MIDLINE

CONDITION THAT IS TRANSMITTED FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER BY EITHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT CONTACT WITH CONTAMINATED OBJECTS

SPREAD OF A DISEASE THROUGH CONTACT WITH BLOOD OR OTHER BODY FLUIDS THAT HAVE BEEN CONTAMINATED WITH BLOOD

FUSED DOUBLE LAYER OF THE PARIETAL PERITONEUM THAT ATTACHES PARTS OF THE INTESTINE TO THE INTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL

DIVIDES THE BODY INTO EQUAL LEFT AND RIGHT HALVES

AN ILLNESS CAUSED BY LIVING PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS SUCH AS BACTERIAL AND VIRUSES

MULTILAYERED MEMBRANE THAT PROTECTS AND HOLDS THE ORGANS IN PLACE WITHIN THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY

AN ABNORMAL CONDITION THAT EXISTS AT THE TIME OF BIRTH

SURROUNDS AND PROTECTS THE HEART OF THE LUNGS

DISEASE ACQUIRED IN A HOSPITAL OR CLINIC SETTING