Medical Term

 Meaning  

 Ablutomania

 Obsession with washing/bathing

 Ad libitum (ad lib.)

 To the desired amount

 Ailurophilia

 Obsessive love of cats

 Alopecia

 Baldness

 Anorexia

 Loss of appetite

 Anthophilia

 Extreme love of flowers

 Ante cibum (a.c.)

 Before food

 Apendectomy

 Surgical removal of appendix

 Appendix

 Vermiform appendix of the colon

 Atychiphobia

 Fear of failure

 Aviatophobia

 Fear of flying

 Bactericide

 Anything that kills bacteria

 Bacteriostat

 Anything that inhibits growth of bacteria

 Bis in die (b.d.)

 Twice a day

 Bleb

 Blister

 Bradycardia

 Slow heart beat

 Brucellosis

 Disease due to bacteria brucella

 Bruxomania

 Compulsion for grinding teeth

 Bulimia

 Abnormal increase in appetite

 Carcinoma

 Cancer of epithelium tissue

 Cephalalgia

 Pain in the head

 Cerumen

 Earwax

 Chrematomania

 Obsession with money

 Cilia

 Eyelashes

 Claustrophobia

 Fear of confined spaces

 Clavicle

 Collar bone

 Coimetrophobia

 Fear of cemeteries

 Cystalgia

 Pain in urinary bladder

 Dorsal

 Back

 Dysmenorrhea

 Painful or difficult menstruation

 Dyspareunia

 Painful sexual intercourse (women)

 Dyspnea

 Difficult breathing

 Dystocia

 Difficult labor

 Dysuria

 Painful urination

 Emaciation

 Extreme thinness

 Emesis

 Vomiting

 Emetic

 Agent which induces vomiting

 Erucation

 Belching

 Etiology

 Study of causes

 Excision

 Cutting

 Fascinoma

 Medical slang for a fascinating case

 Fatigue

 Tiredness or Weariness

 Femur

 Thigh bone

 Flatulence

 Gas formation (especially in the bowel)

 Gangrene

 Death of body tissue

 Gephyrophobia

 Fear of crossing bridges

 Gestation

 Pregnancy

 Glossitis

 Inflammation of tongue

 Gynecomastia

 Growth of breast in male

 Halitosis

 Bad breath

 Helminthiasis

 Infestation with worms

 Hematemesis

 Vomiting blood

 Hematuria

 Blood in urine

 Hemophilia

 Bleeding disease (genetic disorder)

 Hemoptysis

 Coughing bloody sputum

 Hemorrhage

 Bleeding

 Hemorrhoids

 Piles

 Hirsute

 Hairy

 Hydrophobia

 Rabies

 Iatric

 Relating to medicine or physician

 Iatrogenic

 Caused by action of doctor/surgeon/therapy

 Iatromelia

 Negligent medical treatment

 Idiopathic

 Cause unknown

 In Vitro

 In a glass or outside of body

 In Vivo

 Within living body

 Jactitation

 Extreme restlessness of ill patient

 Janiceps

Conjoined twins with head fused & opp. faces

 Junk DNA

 Noncoding regions of DNA with no function

 Juxta-articular

 Near a joint

 Karyotype

Chromosomal constitution & cell arrangement

 Keratitis

 Inflammation of cornea

 Klazomania

 Compulsion to shout

 Kleptomania

 Obsession to steal

 Kyphosis

 Humped back

 Lachanophilia

 Obsessive love of vegetables

 Lalomania

 Talking excessively

 Lavage

 Washing of cavity

 Leukemia

 Blood cancer

 Lockiophobia

 Fear of childbirth

 Logizomechanophilia

 Obsessive love of computers

 Mastalgia

 Pain in breast

 Menarche

 First menstruation

 Menorrhagia

 Heavy menstrual bleeding

 Micturition

 Urination

 Myocardial Infarction

 Heart attack

 Mythomania

 Compulsion to tell lies, exaggerate

 Neoplasm

 Tumor

 Nosophobia

 Fear of disease or falling ill

 Nyctophilia

 Obsessive love of nights

 Nymphomania

 Excessive sexual desire/behaviour in females

 Oenomania

 Obsession with wine

 Oligomenorrhea

 Scanty menstrual bleeding or infrequent    menstruation

 Omni mane (o.m.)

 Every morning

 Omni nocte (o.n.)

 Every night

 Oncology

 Study of tumors

 Ophidiophobia

 Fear of snakes

 Osmophobia

 Fear of odors

 Pediculosis

 Infestation with lice

 Phasmophobia

 Fear of ghosts

 Phobia

 Morbid Fear

 Post cibum (p.c.)

 After Food

 Prophylaxis

 Prevention

 Pro re nata (p.r.n.)

 Whenever necessary

 Pruritus

 Itching

 Pyogenic

 Producing pus

 Pyrexia

 Fever

 Quadriplegia

 Paralysis involving 4 limbs

 Quater in die(q.i.d.)

 4 times a day

 Quarter quaque hora   (q.q.h.)

Every 4 hours

 Quinsy

 Inflammation of tonsil with abscess

 Quotidian

 Recurring everyday

 Rhagades

 Cracks in skin esp. around mouth

 Rhytiphobia

 Fear of developing wrinkles

 Rovsing’s sign

 Test for acute appendicitis where pressure in      left iliac fossa causes pain in right side

 Rubella

 German measles

 Sarcoma

 Malignancy of connective tissue

 Satyromania

 Excessive sexual desire/behaviour in males

 Sclerotic

 Hard

 Si opus sit (s.o.s.)

 If necessary

 Sitiomania

 Obsession with food

 Somnambulism

 Sleep walking

 Statim (stat.)

 At once

 Steatopygia

 Excess fat in the buttocks

 Stenosis

 Abnormal narrowing of an opening

 Strabismus

 Squint

 Surrogate mother

 A mother who carries a fetus for another

 Tachycardia

 Rapid heartbeat

 Ter in die (t.i.d.)

 3 times a day

 Tibia

 Shinbone

 Thrombus

 Blood clot

 Ulocarcinoma

 Cancer of gums

 Umbilicus

 Navel

 Urethritis

 Inflammation of urethra

 Urticaria

 Hives

 Uvulitis

 Inflammation of uvula

 Varicella

 Chickenpox

 Varicose

 Dilated or swollen

 Vicarious menstruation

 Bleeding from organ like nose or eyes other than uterine cavity during expected monthly period

 Victricophobia

 Fear of step-father

 Vulva

 Female external genital organs

 Weber test

 A test for hearing

 Wen

 A small sebaceous cyst

 Wilms tumor

 A cancer of kidney in childhood

 Wilson disease

 An inherited disease with excessive copper

 Xanthopsia

 Vision where all objects appear yellow

 Xerostomia

 Dryness of mouth

 Xyrophobia

 Fear of razors

 Yaws

 A tropical skin infection

 Yersinia

 A bacteria group causing plague & yersiniosis

 Yttrium

 An element used as radioactive in treatment of some malignancy

 Zelophilia

 Obsessive love of jealousy

 Zoonosis

 Animal disease transmissible to human

 Zoster

 A type of herpes

 Zygote

 A fertilized egg