Dictionary of Medical Terms

Loss of feeling and movement of the arms and legs.

The name applied collectively to a group of four thigh muscles that insert together into the tendon surrounding the…

Misrepresentation of a product’s or person’s ability to diagnose and treat disease.

Something that causes fever.

Vitamin B6, sometimes used to treat nausea in pregnancy or to manage premenstrual syndrome symptoms.

Skin infection producing pus.

The junction of the stomach and the small intestine.

Kidney infection.

Inflammation of the urine-collecting system within the kidney.

A small pus-containing blister.

A thick fluid produced in certain infections.

Containing pus.

Movement of blood into the soft tissues, producing bruises.

The opening in the center of the iris.

A wound produced by a pointed object.

The heartbeat as felt through the walls of an artery.

Having to do with the lungs.

The period of time just after childbirth.

The most forward bone of the pelvis.

The stage of life during which the secondary sexual characteristics begin to develop and sexual reproduction becomes possible.

A prolapse or falling of some organ or structure, especially the drooping of a paralyzed upper eyelid.