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Hematologist

Definition


Specialist. HematologistHematology, also spelled haematology (from the Greek αἷμα, haima "blood," and -λoγία), is the branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. Hematology includes the study of etiology

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  -logy

 

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Definition

Combining form

1. indicating the science or study of: musicology

 2. indicating writing, discourse, or body of writings: 

trilogy, phraseology,martyrology

 

Derived Forms

-logical, -logic, combining_form:in_adjective 
-logist, combining_form:in_noun:countable

 

Word Origin

from Latin -logia, from Greek, from logos word; see logos

Term

Regurgitation


[ri-gur-ji-tey-shuh n]

Definition

noun

1. the act of regurgitating.

2.voluntary or involuntary return of partly digested food from thestomach to the mouth.

3. Pathology. the reflux of blood through defective heart valves.


regurgitate-ion

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Fundoscopy

Definition

 

 

 Fundoscopic examination Physical exam The examination of the ocular fundus to assess retinalmanifestations of hypertension, DM, retinal detachment, melanoma, and sundry ilk

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Mitral

mi·tral  [mahy-truh l]

Definition

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adjective

 

1. of or resembling a miter.

2. Anatomy. of, relating to, or situated near the mitral valve of the heart.





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Diurese

 

[dahy-uh-ree-sis] / di·re·sis

 

 
 
Definition

 

noun

1. excretion of an unusually large quantity of urine

Word Origin

C17: from New Latin, from Greek diourein to urinate

 

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Purulent

 

[pyoo r-uh-luh nt, pyoo r-yuh-] / pu·ru·lent

 

Definition

adjective

1. full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating:

a purulent sore.

2. attended with suppuration: purulent appendicitis.

3. of the nature of or like pus: purulent matter.

 

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Ischemic

 is·chae·mi·a /[ih-skee-mee-uh] 

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noun, Pathology.

 

1.  local deficiency of blood supply produced by vasoconstriction 

or localobstacles to the arterial flow.

 

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Dyspnea

dysp·ne`a /[disp-nee-uh] 

 

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Definition

 

 

noun, Pathology.

 

1.   difficult or labored breathing.

 

Term

 


Diarhea

 di·ar·rhoe·a / [dahy-uh-ree-uh] 

 

 

 

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Definition

 

 

nounPathology.

1.an intestinal disorder characterized by abnorml frequency and fluidity of fecal evacuations.

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-al

Definition

  1. a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loan words from Latin ( autumnal; natural; pastoral), 


and productive in English onthe Latin model, usually with bases of Latin origin   (accidental;seasonal; tribal). 

Originally, -al 1was restricted to stems not containingan -l- (cf. -ar1.); recent lapses in this rule have 

produced semantically distinct pairs, as familiar and familial. 

Compare -ical, -ial. 

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