Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine .
12-535: Palsy is a medical term which refers to various types of paralysis or paresis , often accompanied by weakness and the loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking. The word originates from the Anglo-Norman paralisie , parleisie et al. , from the accusative form of Latin paralysis , from Ancient Greek παράλυσις ( parálusis ), from παραλύειν ( paralúein , "to disable on one side"), from παρά ( pará , "beside") + λύειν ( lúein , "loosen"). The word
24-415: A condition of kidneys , and nephritis is also a condition, or inflammation, of the kidneys. The suffix -itis means inflammation, and the entire word conveys the meaning inflammation of the kidney. To continue using these terms, other combinations will be presented for the purpose of examples: The term supra-renal is a combination of the prefix supra- (meaning "above"), and the word root for kidney, and
36-466: A man who is paralysed. Although the term has historically been associated with paralysis generally, "is now almost always used in connection to the word cerebral —meaning the brain". Specific kinds of palsy include: Medical term Medical terminology has quite regular morphology , the same prefixes and suffixes are used to add meanings to different roots. The root of a term often refers to an organ , tissue , or condition . For example, in
48-404: A new term with a vowel attached (word root + vowel) called a combining form . In English, the most common vowel used in the formation of the combining form is the letter -o- , added to the word root. For example, if there is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines, this would be written as gastro- and enter- plus -itis , gastroenteritis . Suffixes are categorized as either (1) needing
60-467: Is anatomical terminology , concerning itself with the names of various parts of the body. In forming or understanding a word root , one needs a basic comprehension of the terms and the source language. The study of the origin of words is called etymology . For example, if a word was to be formed to indicate a condition of kidneys, there are two primary roots – one from Greek (νεφρός nephr(os) ) and one from Latin ( ren(es) ). Renal failure would be
72-563: Is longstanding in the English language , having appeared in the play Grim the Collier of Croydon , reported to have been written as early as 1599: Rob. I'll have thee come, I say. Why tremblest thou? Grim. No sir, not I; 'tis a palsy I have still. In some editions, the Bible passage of Luke 5:18 is translated to refer to "a man which was taken with a palsy". More modern editions simply refer to
84-505: Is technically considered acceptable to create hybrid words, it is strongly preferred not to mix different lingual roots. Examples of well-accepted medical words that do mix lingual roots are neonatology and quadriplegia . Prefixes do not normally require further modification to be added to a word root because the prefix normally ends in a vowel or vowel sound, although in some cases they may assimilate slightly and an in- may change to im- or syn- to sym- . Suffixes are attached to
96-490: The combining form, or (2) not needing the combining form since they start with a vowel. Signs and symptoms Syndrome Disease Medical diagnosis Differential diagnosis Prognosis Acute Chronic Cure Eponymous disease Acronym or abbreviation Remission Neonatology Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
108-530: The disorder known as hypertension , the prefix "hyper-" means "high" or "over", and the root word "tension" refers to pressure, so the word "hypertension" refers to abnormally high blood pressure. The roots, prefixes and suffixes are often derived from Greek or Latin , and often quite dissimilar from their English-language variants. This regular morphology means that once a reasonable number of morphemes are learnt it becomes easy to understand very precise terms assembled from these morphemes. Much medical language
120-415: The end of a word root to add meaning such as condition, disease process, or procedure. In the process of creating medical terminology, certain rules of language apply. These rules are part of language mechanics called linguistics . The word root is developed to include a vowel sound following the term to add a smoothing action to the sound of the word when applying a suffix. The result is the formation of
132-409: The entire word means "situated above the kidneys". The word " nephrologist " combines the root word for kidney to the suffix -ologist with the resultant meaning of "one who studies the kidneys". The formation of plurals should usually be done using the rules of forming the proper plural form in the source language. Greek and Latin each have differing rules to be applied when forming the plural form of
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#1732859237605144-662: The word root. Often such details can be found using a medical dictionary . Medical terminology often uses words created using prefixes and suffixes in Latin and Ancient Greek . In medicine , their meanings, and their etymology , are informed by the language of origin. Prefixes and suffixes, primarily in Greek—but also in Latin, have a droppable -o- . Medical roots generally go together according to language: Greek prefixes go with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although it
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