CLST 301 Lecture 10: Common Medical Terms
25 Jun 2016
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Sharp; severe; occurring rapidly non-malignant of long duration harmful; resisting treatment [of cancers] developing at a moderate rate. You need to know the following terms and be able to define them when encountered; these words are likely to appear in assignments and/or on the final examination: acute benign chronic malignant subacute. Note carefully these examples of their use: acute otitis. The doctor said that this is an inflammation of the ear which can occur rapidly: benign neuromata. Most non-malignant tumours composed of nervous tissue are treatable: chronic otitis. His uncle had had inflammation in that ear for a long time: malignant otitis. It s rare to see an inflammation of the ear which resists treatment: subacute otitis.
