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Medical Terms

[These words include simple definitions for some of the phrases and words used to describe disease process and healing.]
These words include simple definitions for some of the phrases and words used to describe disease process and healing.
We currently have 178 entries in this glossary.

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Abruption

A tearing away, separation, or detachment

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Acidemia

An increase in the H-ion concentration of the blood or a fall below normal in pH which is often categorized as either respiratory or metabolic

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Adenocarcinoma

Malignant neoplasm of epithelial cells in glandular or glandlike pattern

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Adenofibroma

Benign neoplasm composed of glandular and fibrous tissues with a relatively large proportion of glands

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Adenoma

Ordinary benign neoplasm of epithelial tissue in which the tumor cells form glands or glandlike structures which tends to compress rather than infiltrate or invade adjacent tissue

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Aerobic

An organism that requires air to live

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Affect

The emotional feeling, tone and mood attached to a thought including its state of mind

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Albumin

Varieties of this simple protein are widely distributed throughout the tissues and fluids of plants and animals which are soluble in pure water- albumin is often used by doctors to expand circulating blood volume. Egg whites are largely composed of albumin.

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Alkalosis

Physiological disorder characterized by H-ion loss or base excess in body fluids. This is the opposite of acidosis and is also futher divided as either of respiratory or metabolic origin.

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Amino acids

Amino acids are the essential building blocks of protein. Of the twenty-two protein building amino acids, nine of these protein-building amino acids cannot be manufactured by the body and hence have to be made available from food sources. The structure and function of a protein cell is determined by the sequence in which the amino acids link together to form the protein.

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