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BIO 194 Final Exam
Ayers Ch. 27
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04/30/2008

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-ent / -ient or -ant/-iant
Definition
person who, that which
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-ile
Definition
able to be, able to, tending to
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-able/-ible
Definition
able to be, able to, tending to
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-id
Definition
tending to, inclined to
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-uous
Definition
tending to, inclined to
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aud-/audit-
Definition
to hear
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camer
Definition
chamber
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cad/cip/cas
Definition
to fall, to befall
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cap/cip/capt
Definition
to take, to capture, to seize
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crepit
Definition
to creak, to crackle
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grav-
Definition
heavy
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jac-
Definition
to lie
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lab- / laps-
Definition
to fall, to slip
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moll-
Definition
soft
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morb-
Definition
disease
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mov-/mot-
Definition
to move
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nasc-/nat-
Definition
to be born
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plan
Definition
flat
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prur-/prurit-
Definition
to itch
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reg-/rig-/rect-
Definition
to make straight, to rule
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rump-/rupt-
Definition
to break, to burst
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scind-/sciss-
Definition
to cut, to split
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tang-/ting-/tin-/tact-
Definition
to touch
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vesic-
Definition
bladder or blister
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audiometer
Definition
an instrument for measuring hearing
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anaudia
Definition
loss of speech
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autoaudible
Definition
audible to the patient
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auditive
Definition
auditory
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psychauditory
Definition
pertaining to intellectual or conscious sound interpretation
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subaudition
Definition
the act of comprehending what is not expressed
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cameration
Definition
division into a large number of separate chambers
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unicameral
Definition
consisting of one chamber
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camerostome
Definition
hollowed place under surface
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incidence
Definition
manner/act of falling upon, ray angle, the way one body strikes another
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adeciduate
Definition
not falling or coming away, applies to evergreens and mammals w/out deciduate placenta
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indeciduate/noncaduous
Definition
w/ maternal placenta not coming away at birth
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caducous
Definition
botany, dropping off early
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decidua
Definition
mucous membrane lining pregnant uterus
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deciduoma
Definition
decidual tissue sans pregnancy
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amboceptor
Definition
antibody or immune body fermentation
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exteroceptor
Definition
receptor receives stimuli from outside the body
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conception
Definition
fecundation ovoom by spermatazoon
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proprioceptor
Definition
receptor in tendon, joint or muscle
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beneceptor
Definition
receptor for stimuli that promote bodily well being
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intussuscpetion
Definition
receiving one part in another
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crepitation/crepitus
Definition
grating of fractured bones, cracking of joints, noise from gas discharge
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decrepitation
Definition
breaking or grating of crystals upon heating
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labile
Definition
unstable, readily moving
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ingravescence
Definition
increasing in weight or severity
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multigravida
Definition
pregnant woman w/ 2+ previous pregnancies
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gravimetric
Definition
weight measure
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primigravida
Definition
woman w/ 1st pregnancy
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gravigrada
Definition
large heavy footed animal
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lability
Definition
rapid changes in emotion without external cause
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tremolabile
Definition
easily inactivated or destroyed by agitation
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mollitites
Definition
softness
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mollisol
Definition
surface layer of tundra, ice melts in summer
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molliscum
Definition
chronic skin disease w/ pulpy nodules
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morbific
Definition
pathogenic
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morbilli
Definition
measles
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morbose
Definition
diseased
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morbus anglicus
Definition
rickets
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morbus hungaricus
Definition
typhus
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oculomotor
Definition
causing eyeball movement
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vasomotor
Definition
nerves supplying muscle regulate blood flow
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motorium
Definition
motor area
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venomotor
Definition
causing veins to contract or dilate
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adnate
Definition
congenitally attached
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innate
Definition
inhertied
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antenatal
Definition
before birth
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denature
Definition
to change from normal
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passion
Definition
intense emotion
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deplanate
Definition
leveled or flattened
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planation
Definition
erosion to flat surface
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planula
Definition
young larva
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anti-pruritive
Definition
alleviates itch
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planiform
Definition
w/ nearly flat surface
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planarian
Definition
turbellian worm
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planoconcave
Definition
flat side / concave side
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prurigo
Definition
chronic inflammatory itch disease
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arrector
Definition
erecting muscle
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pararectal
Definition
beside or near rectum
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abruption
Definition
tearing away
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ruptio
Definition
vessel or organ rupture
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scissile
Definition
separating easily
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abcission
Definition
separation of parts
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abscind
Definition
to cut off
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electroscission
Definition
cutting tisue w/ electrocauterizing knife
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dicission
Definition
state of being torn apart
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tactile
Definition
pertaining to touch
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atactilia
Definition
loss of tactile sense
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myotactic
Definition
muscle sense
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vesiculation
Definition
vesicle formation
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vesication -
Definition
blister formation
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perivesiculitis
Definition
inflammation around vesicle
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bronchovesicular
Definition
stage in transition normal to bronchial breath sounds
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applanate
Definition
flattened
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ruptile
Definition
bursting irregularly
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connate
Definition
joined from birth
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erumpent
Definition
breaking through a surface or covering
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vesicant
Definition
blistering agent
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siccolabile
Definition
altered or destroyed by drying
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subcrepitant
Definition
nearly crepitant
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abscise
Definition
to separate by abcission
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clairaudience
Definition
the power or faculty of hearing something not present to the ear but regarded as having objective reality
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frigolabile
Definition
destroyed or altered by cold
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incipient
Definition
beginning to come into being or to become apparent
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mollusc
Definition
any of a large phylum (Mollusca) of invertebrate animals (as snails, clams, or squids) with a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a calcareous shell; broadly : shellfish
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locomotion
Definition
an act or the power of moving from place to place
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morbilliform
Definition
a measles like rash
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morbus gallicus
Definition
syphillis
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natimortality
Definition
The proportion of fetal and neonatal deaths to the general natality; the perinatal death rate.
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procidentia
Definition
rectum insdie out
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thermolabile
Definition
destroyed altered by heat
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rectilinear
Definition
a polygon whose edges meet at right angles
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rectalgia
Definition
anal or rectal pain
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pruriginous
Definition
relating to caused by prurgio
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