RT 101

• Apnea


  Cessation in Breathing
• Anacusis


  Completely deaf
• Ataxia


  Reduction in Muscle Movement
• Anorexia


  Intense fear of gaining weight
• Atel


  Incomplete
• Atelectasis

  Collapsed Lung
• Arteriospasm 


  Manipulation of blood in the Artery
• Arteriovenous


  Abnormal tangling of artery and veins
• Angioplasty 


  Minimally Invasive procedure that widens narrowed or blocked veins
• Asphyxia 


  Suffocation that causes unconsciousness or death
• Axon


  Send the message in the nervous system
• Dendrites 


  Receive message in the nervous system
• -Algia


  Pain
• Neur/o


  Nerve
• Anuria


  Total suppression of urine
• Soliloquy 


  Act of speaking one thought's aloud
• Tinnitus


  Ringing Sound in the Ear
• Ischemia 


  Blood flow to a part of the body is restricted or reduced, causing shortage of oxygen to the tissue.
• Gangrene 


  Blood supply to a tissue is cut off

  Causing it to decomposed
• Brady


  Slow
• Cardi/o


  Heart
• Spondylitis


  Inflammation in the vertebrae
• Spondylolisthesis 


  Degenerative condition causing mis-alignment in the vertebrae
• Cholelithiasis 


  Stone in Gallbladder
• Nephrolithiasis 


  Stone in kidney
• Bruxism


  Grinding of the Teeth
• Cachexia 


  Loss of Appetite or Wasting Syndrome
• Dysphagia 


  Difficulty in swallowing
• -Phagia


  Eating
• Polyphagia


  Excessive Hunger
• Oligophagia


  Eating only specific foods
• Orthopnea 


  Cessation of breathing when lying down
• Pharyngitis

  Also known as the “sore throat“ Inflammation in the Pharynx
• Ganglia/Ganglion


  Cluster of nerve cells
• Colitis


  Inflammation of the large intestine or in Colon
• Caudad 


  Towards the feet
• Cephalad


  Towards the Head
• Trendelenburg


  Feet Higher
• Fowler's position 


  Head higher
• Lithotomy 


  Pregnancy Position