Medical And Health Care Vocabulary List F

CC2040 English for Academic Studies (Health Care) Medical and Health Care Vocabulary List F Term anaphylaxis anticoagulant astringent dyspnea (dyspnoea) epinephrine 5 (adrenaline) 6 etiology (aetiology) exocrine 7 1 2 3 4

hematocrit (haemotocrit) hemoglobin 9 (haemoglobin) 10 idiopathic mammogram 8

Pronunciation* anc^-fU-lakcsis anctT-kb-agcyu-lant as-trincjent disp-nTc^ epci-nefcrin (^-drTcn^-lTn) T-tT-olcb-jT ekcsb-krin hT-matcb-crit hT-mb-glbcbin idcT-b-pathcik mamcb-gram

11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

oximetry

ok-simc_-trT

pathogen afebrile (apyretic) angina arteriosclerosis buccal cholesterol curette, curet

pathcb-jen Q-febcril (Q-pU-retcik) ancji-n^ ar-tTrcT-b-skler-bcsis b\kc^l kb-lescter-ol kyu-retc

defibrillator

dT-fibcri-lQ-ter

21 digitalis 22 febrile forceps 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

dij-i-tQclis febcril fbrcseps

Kaposi’s sarcoma (Kaposi sarcoma) keratitis nodule papilla penicillin purulent Salmonella

kah-pbcsT sar-kbcm^

Staphylococcus

stafci-lb-kokc\s

Streptococcus

strep-tb-kokc\s

33 vitreous

ker-^-tUctis nodcyul p^-pilc^ pen-i-silc in pyurc\-lent salcm[-nelc^

vitcrT-\s

Brief Explanation an abnormal reaction to a particular antigen preventing coagulation (clotting of blood) a drug that causes the contraction of cells or tissues shortness of breath, difficulty or distress in breathing important hormone secreted by the adrenal gland to prepare the body for “fright, flight, or fight” study of the causes of disease and their mode of operation denoting a gland that secretes outwardly through excretory ducts volume of red cells in blood, expressed as a fraction of the total volume of the blood substance within the red blood cells, responsible for the colour of red blood cells denoting a disease of unknown cause record produced by mammography – the imaging examination of the breast by means of x-rays, ultrasound, and nuclear magnetic resonance for screening and diagnosis of breast disease measurement with an oximeter of the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in a sample of blood any virus, micro-organism, or other substance causing disease without a fever (normal body temperature) sense of suffocating pain hardening of the arteries relating to the mouth or the cheek fatlike material present in blood and most tissues spoon-shaped instrument for scraping tissues from a cavity for diagnostic purpose apparatus designed to administer a defibrillating electric shock to restore normal heart rhythm test to detect cancer of the neck or lining of the womb denoting or relating to fever instrument for seizing a structure, and making compression or traction malignant tumours arising from blood vessels in the skin, forming plaques or nodules inflammation of the cornea a small node any small, nipple-like process an antibiotic containing, consisting of, or forming pus kind of bacteria that inhibits the intestines of animals and man and causes disease kind of bacteria occurring in grapelike clusters, commonly present on skin and membranes kind of bacteria occurring in chains, with species that can destroy red blood cells glassy; resembling glass

* 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