Learning Medical Terms
Across
- 4. excessive dryness of the skin
- 7. a procedure to enable visualization of the interior of organs and cavities with a lighted instrument
- 8. excessive body hair, especially in woman
- 12. a protective response of body tissue that includes symptoms of redness, swelling, heat, and pain
- 13. A general term for an itchy red rash that may be come crusted, thickened, or scaly
- 14. refers to the use of liquid nitrogen to destroy or eliminate abnormal tissue cells
- 16. refers to excision of a small piece of living tissue from an organ or other part of the body for microscopic examination
Down
- 1. a band of scare tissue that binds anatomical surfaces that normally are separate from each other
- 2. a medical term for warts, moles, and pimples
- 3. a severe bacterial infection in the blood in which toxins circulating in the blood cause severe systemic symptoms
- 5. directs x-rays through the body to a fluorescent screen to view the motion of organs, such as the digestive tract and heart
- 6. a transplantation of healthy tissue from one site to another site in the same individual
- 9. a black tumor
- 10. a hernia that contains fat or fatty cells
- 11. a fungal infection of the nails
- 15. a production of shadow images on photographic film