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Medical Terminology Breakdown

Break down 10 medical words from your chosen article. Place the component parts in the correct boxes. Copy and paste this template into your Week Eight paper.

Medical Word 1 2 3 4 Myositis Polymyositis Dysphagia Myopathy

Prefix Myos/ Poly Dys My/o o

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Suffix itis Itis Phagia Pathy

Definition Inflammation of; infection of muscle Inflammation of many muscles Painful eating or swallowing Disease; suffering of muscle Procedure to diagnose muscle disease or nerve damage. Process of recording electricity to muscle Disease of hardening of the connective tissue of skin Disease of nerve Pertaining to/within the tissue that lines the heart, blood vessels, lymphatic vessels condition, usually abnormal structure with poison Pertaining to muscle between fibers.

My/os/o

Electromyography Electr/o My/o O Graphy Derma Pathy theil Plasm My/o/fibrill al osis ar

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Scleroderma Neuropathy Endothelial

Scler/ Neur/o Endo

Toxoplasmosis

Tox/o Inter

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In reading this article about Myositis, we have learned that it is a mixed connective tissue disease. While performing clinical studies that have revealed Cutaneous thickness on the patients face, forearms, and hands. They have also revealed that the patient has lesions on her thorax. They have performed a muscle biopsy and revealed ghost fibers, necrosis, disarrangement of the intermyofibrillar, This is a rare form of lupus. It can be treated with high doses of corticoid, methotrexate and azathioprine. www. http://lup.sagepub.com week 8 article pdf The implications that this disease has on the health care administrators is that it has similar symptoms to other disease, The implications is that quality improvement systems continue to be more and more central to

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