1) The general meaning of "corpus" is best described by which of the following? (A) Abdomen (B) Body (C) Chest (D) Head (E) Trunk 2) Which of the following is the term for an abnormally low white blood cell count? (A) Anemia (B) Leukemia (C) Leukocytosis (D) Leukopenia (E)...
Endometriosis– a condition involving colonization of the abdominal/pelvic cavity with islands of endometrial tissue. Endometrium is the lining layer of the uterus which sloughs off with each menstruation. If endometrial tissue flushes up the uterine tube and spills into the abdomen (peritoneal cavity)...
What are eight study suggestions for mastering medical terminology?What is chronic inflammatory cancer? Name two cancers that would be classified this way.What is a term that is used to refer to the clinical evidence or effects of a disease? a. Manifestations b. Indications c. Causal fac...
Thus, adolescents should be encouraged to report their experience with menstruation, as normalizing painful menstruation among this age group may result in delayed diagnosis. Physical examination findings are able to identify endometriosis with high accuracy dependent on location of the lesions [39,40,...
COCs have been used for many years as the first-line therapy, exhibiting many beneficial effects on endometriosis-related symptoms by the induction of the atrophy of the eutopic and ectopic endometrium, limiting retrograde menstruation, inhibition of ovulation and anti-inflammatory and proapoptotic eff...
The term “Nociplastic Pain” was proposed as a mechanistic descriptor for chronic pain states not characterized by activation of nociceptors or neuropathy, but in which the clinical and psychophysical findings suggest altered nociceptive function [41]; this terminology can be applied to a diverse ran...