Medical-terminologies-for-clinical-chemistry.docx

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES FOR CLINICAL CHEMISTRY HYPERTONIC – HIGHER SOLUTES HYPOTONIC – LOWER SOLUTES PERICARDIAL FLUID – FLUID THAT SURROUNDS THE HEART PHOTOMETRY – MEQASURING LIGHT INTENSITY AT VARIOUS WAVELENGHTS NEPHROTIC – RELATING TO DISEASE OF RENAL TUBE ACIDOSIS – DECREASE OF BASIC COMPOUNDS AND AN ACCUMULATION OF ACID IN THE BLOOD BILIRUBINEMIA – BILIYUBIN CIRCULATING IN THE BLOOD HEMOSTASIS – BALANCE ON THE BODY BETWEEN BLOOD CLOTTING AND CLOT LYSIS HEMOLYSIS – DESTRUCTION OF RED BLOOD CELLS HOMEOSTASIS – BALANCE IN THE BODY INTRACELLULAR – COMPONENT FOUND IN THE CELL LIPEMIIA – ONCREASED LIPID ACCUMULATION METHODOLOGY – BASIC MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE OR TECHNIQUE THAT IS USED IN AN ANALYTICAL SYSTEM TO PERFORM A TEST POSTANALYTICAL – PROCEDURES RELATED TO SPECIMEN HANDLING AND RESULT REPORTING AFTER THE ANALYTICAL PHASE PREANALYTICAL – SPECIMEN COLLECTION urinalysis- assessment of the urine microalbuminuria- small amounts of albumin myoglobin- a low molecular-weight protein pyelonephritis- infection in the kidney

MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS USED FOR CLINICAL CHEMISTRY CSF - CEREBROSFINAL FLUID ALT – ALANIINE AMINOTRANSFERASE AST – ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE CK – CREATINE KINASE HDL – HIIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN ( GOOD CHOLESTEROL ) LDL – LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN ( BAD CHOLESTEROL ) BUN – BLOOD URINE NITROGEN LD – LACTATE DEHYDROGENES AlkP – ALKALINE PHOSPHATE CRP – C-REACTIVE PROTEIN BUN – BLOOD URINE NITROGEN EDTA – ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC ACID PSA – PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN AMR – ANALYTICAL MEASUREMENT RANGE ISE – ION-SELECTIVE ELECTRODE TDM – THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES USED FOR HISTOPATHOLOGY ADENOCARCINOMA – A MALIGNANT TUMOE THAT ARISES IN MUCUS-SECRETING GLANDS ANAPLASTIC – CANCER CELLS THAT PROLIFERATE QUIICKLY AND UNLIKE NORMAL CELLS CHEMOTHERAPY – TREATING CANCER CELLS THROUGH THE USE OF CYTOTOXIC DRUGS COLECTOMY – SURGICAL REMOVAL OF DAMAGED COLON TISSUE COLITIS – AN INFLAMED COLON COLONOSCOPY – AN EXAM CONDUCTED TO VIEW THE CONDTIONS OF THE INSIDE THE COLON THROUGH THE USE OF A SMALL FIBER-OPTIC SCOPE ENDOSCOPY – EXAAMINATION OF AN INTERIOR BODY PART THROUGH THE USE OF AN ENDOSCOPE GASTROENTEROLOGIST – A DOCTOR SPECIALIZING IN GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT DISEASE GASTROENTEROLOGY – MEDICAL BRANCH WHICH STUDIES THE STOMACH AND INTESTIINES LUMPECTOMY – SURGICAL REMOVING OF A LUMP FROM THE BREAST MASTECTOMY – A SURGICAL REMOVAL OF ALL OR A SECTION OF THE BREAST TISSUE METASTASIS – THE SPREAS OF CANCER TO OTHER ORGANS OF THE BODY. ONCOLOGY – ANALYSIS AND TREATMENT OF CANCER AND TUMORS RESECTION – A SURGICAL OPERATION THAT REMOVES CANCERPUS TIISSUE AS WELL AS NORMAL ADJACENT TISSUE RECURRENCE – THE REAPPEARANCE OF CANCER POST TREATMENT ACIDOPHILIC – READILY STAINED WITH ACID DYES AUTOLYSIS – DESTRUCTION OF TISSUES BY ENZYMES THAT ARE PRODUCED BY THE TISSUE APLASIA – ONCOOMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF A TISSUE AGENESIA – COMPLETE NON APPEARANCE OF AN ORGAN ATROPHY – ACWUIIRED DECREASE IN SIZE OF NORMALLY DEVELOPED TISSUE

MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS FOR HIISTOPATOLOGY RCC – RENAL CELL CARCINOMA OS – OSTEOGENIIC SARCOMA ( BONNE CANCER) NSCLC – NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER OCT – OPTIMUM CUTTING TEMPERATURE NED – NO EVIIDENCE OF DISEASE MRT – MALIGNANT RHABDOID TUMOR NAT- NNORMAL ADJACENT TISSUE MM – MALIGNANT MELANOMA CD - CLUSTER OF DIFFERENTIATION CEA – CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIIGEN CBT CAROTID BOODY TUMOR BEB – BENIGN EDDENNTIAL BLEPHAROSPASM