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Iatr-
Prefix relating to a physician or medicine. An iatrogenic illness is one inadvertently caused by a physician. From the Greek word 'iatros' meaning physician (healer)
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Show more- Abdomen, acute The abrupt (acute) onset of abdominal pain. A potential medical emergency, an acute abdomen may reflect a…
- Arthro- A prefix meaning joint, as in arthropathy and arthroscopic. Before a vowel, it becomes arthr-, as in…
- Cutis The skin. Cutis marmorata is marble skin, a normal response to cold. The word cutis is Latin for skin. See…
- Velocardiofacial syndrome A congenital malformation syndrome characterized by cleft palate, heart defects, abnormal facial structure…
- Mutation, null A mutation (a change) in a gene that leads to its not being transcribed into RNA and/or translated into a…
- Encephalitis, St. Louis A disease caused by a virus (first observed in Illinois in 1932) transmitted from birds to the common Culex…
- Resuscitate To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken
- Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody See: Citrulline antibody
- Acute myelogenous leukemia Acute myelogenous leukemia: Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic…
- AT (in DNA) AT stands for adenine and thymine, a base pair in DNA. The other base pair in DNA is GC (guanine and cytosine)
- Psychosis, ICU A disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar hospital setting may experience…
- Vocal tremor Tremor: Trembling or shaking of one or more of the muscles of the larynx (the voice box), resulting in an…