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MEDICAL TERMS

• ARTERY: Blood vessel which carries blood away from the heart.
• ARTHRECTOMY: Scraping of a joint (usually when infected eg by tubercular
infection).
• ARTHRITIS: Inflammation of joints.
• ARTHRITIS GONORRHOEAL: Arthritis (inflammation of joints) associated with
gonorrhoea, a venereal disease.
• ARTHRITIS RHEUMATOID: Inflammation of joints.

• ARTHRODESIS: Surgical fusion of a joint to relieve pain (Moderm).
• ASACARIS LUMBRACOOIDES: Worm infestation.
• ASCITES: Swelling of abdomen caused by accumulation of fluid.
• ASPHYXIA: Unconsciousness or suffocation.
• ASTHENIA: Loss of strength, debility.
• ASTHMA: Difficulty in breathing with a sense of suffocation thought to be nervous
in origin.
• ASTIGMATISM: Unequal refractive power of the eye.
• ATAXY: Impaired gait in walking.

• ATAXY CEBERELLAR: Impaired gait in walking, associated with disorder of
of the lower brain.
• ATELECTASIS: Failur of lungs at birth.

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