Medical And Health Care Vocabulary List D

CC2040 English for Academic Studies (Health Care) Medical and Health Care Vocabulary List D

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Term allergen antihistamines asepsis asphyxia autoclave bilirubin cyanotic diaphoresis diaphragm

10 electrode 11 fascia flatulence 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Fowler’s position (Fowler position) fumigation hazardous hematology (haematology) isopropyl lithotomy metastasis myalgia nausea palpitation percussion

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Pronunciation* alcer-jen an-tT-hisct^-mTnz Q-sepcsis as-fikcsT-^ awctb-klQv bil-i-roocbin sU-^-notcik dUc^-fb-rTcsis dUc^-fram T-lekctrbd fashcT-^ flatcyu-lens fowlc_rs fyu-mi-gQcsh\n hQcz\r-d\s hT-m^-tolcb-jT Usb-prbcpil li-thotcb-mT m_-tasct^-sis mU-alcjT-^ nawczT-^ pal-pi-tQcsh\n p_r-k\shc\n

postprandial prothrombin pruritus regimen sanitization semi-Fowler’s 29 (semi-Fowler) 30 specimen sterilization 31

pbst-prancdT-^l prb-thromcbin proo-rUct\s rejci-men sanci-ti-zQcsh\n semcT fowlc_rs

32 syncope tracheostomy 33 (tracheotomy) Trendelenburg 34

sinck[-pT trQckT-osctb-mT (trQ-kT-otcb-mT) trencde-len-berg

35 urticaria 36 vertigo 37 virus

ercti-karci-^ vercti-gb vUcr\s

spescV-men stercV-li-zQcsh\n

Brief Explanation any antigen that causes allergy in a hypersensitive person drugs used for treatment of allergies complete absence of living pathogenic organisms suffocation apparatus for sterilization by steam under pressure orange or yellow bile pigment related to bluish discoloration of the skin process of sweating, especially excessive sweating musculomembranous partition between the abdominal and thoracic cavities device to record one of the two extremities of an electric circuit sheet of fibrous tissue that envelops the body beneath the skin presence of an excessive amount of gas in the stomach and intestines recumbent position in which the head of the bed is elevated for about 60–90 cm using smoke as a means of disinfection or eradication involving or exposing one to risk medical specialty that pertains to the blood and blood-forming tissues alkyl radical of propane operation for the removal of a calculus shifting of a disease from one part of the body to another muscular pain feeling of being sick at the stomach; an inclination to vomit forcible pulsation of the heart diagnostic procedure using finger-tapping and the sound produced following a meal glycoprotein in the cells of the liver and in the blood itching program of treatment process of making something sanitary (healthy) inclined position obtained by raising the head of the bed 10–15 inches sample, small part process by which an individual is rendered incapable of fertilization or reproduction loss of consciousness due to insufficient blood flow to the brain operation of opening into the trachea, usually intended to be temporary physical examination finding associated with various hip abnormalities eruption of itching wheals sensation of spinning or whirling motion an agent of an infectious disease

*Pronunciation based on: Dirckx, John H., editor, Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions, Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 4th Edition, 2001

William Tsang 2009