Vocabulary Words

Let's learn some words. It is better to overhear a care provider say you are
"eating a dry diet" then "she has xerophagia." Some terms are legitimately scary but other times a familiar term such as jaundice would be better handled by new parents then "your child has iatrogenic icterus!"



iatrogenic -
induced inadvertently by medical treatment

icterogenic -
causing jaundice

anhidrosis -
not sweating

bradycardia -
a slow heart rate, usually defined as less than 60 beats per minute

cervicitis -
inflammation of the cervix

encopresis -
inability to control the elimination of stool (fecal incontinence)

icterus -
jaundice

mastalgia -
pain in the breast or mammary gland. From the Greek masto-, breast + algos, pain

xerophagia -
eating a dry diet.