Medical and Legal Latin

1. Medical and Legal Latin from
Ancient Greek and Latin
hem/o------blood
a-----no; not; without
amphi-----around, on both sides
Phobia-----fear

2. Hemachrome
•
• HEMA chrome (hee’ ma
krome) n.
• The coloring matter of
the blood

3. Hemal
• Pertaining to
the blood or
blood vessels

4. Hemorrhoids :
• Dilated veins liable to discharge blood

5. Hemophilia
• HEMO philia (he mo fil’ ee a) n.
• Bleeding which cannot be controlled

6. Hemospasia
• Draining of blood

7. Hemostat
• :An instrument which stops hemorrhage

8. Hemotoxic
Causing blood-poisoning

9. Apathy
• is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, and concern. Apathy is a state of
indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement,
motivation, and/or passion

10. Analgesic
(medicine) analgesia (absence of the sense of
pain)

11. anoxia
• A condition in which a tissue or environment
is severely or totally deprived of oxygen,
severe hypoxia.

12. Anemia
• is a condition that develops when your blood lacks enough
healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin

13. Aphasia
• is a communication disorder that results from damage to the
parts of the brain that contain language (typically in the left
half of the brain). Individuals who experience damage to the
right side of the brain may have additional difficulties beyond
speech and language issues

14. Apnoea
• = cessation of breathing
• temporary cessation of
breathing, especially
during sleep.
• "thousands suffer from
sleep apnea"
early 18th century: modern Latin, from Greek apnoia, from apnous ‘breathless.’

15. Agammaglobulinaemic
• = blood that
lacks
gammaglobulin

16. Anaesthesia
• insensitivity to pain,
especially as artificially
induced by the
administration of gases
or the injection of drugs
before surgical
operations.

17. Amphibiology
• That branch of zoology
which is concerned with
animals that live on
both land and water

18. Amphicrania
• :
• Pain on both
sides of the
head

19. Amphibolia
• Disease of high
fever with
fluctuating
temperature

20. Amphirhina
• :
•Vertebrates
with double
nasal
chambers

21. amphibolic
• The term amphibolic is
used to describe a
biochemical pathway that
involves both catabolism
and anabolism. This term
was proposed by B.Davis
in 1961 to emphasise the
dual metabolic role of
such pathway. The citric
acid cycle (The Krebs
Cycle) is a good example
of amphibolic pathway.

22. amphigony
• sexual
reproduction.
Also called
amphigenesis.

23. Arachnophobia
• Arachnophobia or the
fear of spiders is the
oldest and most
common phobia in the
Western culture. The
word Arachnophobia is
derived from the Greek
word ‘arachne’ meaning
spiders.

24. Claustrophobia
is a type of situational
phobia (fear of certain
situations) where an
individual experiences
great fear of small or
enclosed spaces.

25. acrophobia.
• Whether you are an
individual suffering from
the fear of heights, or
knows someone who
does, this brief guide is
written for you. Here we
shall study the causes,
symptoms and treatment
options for the fear of
heights, which is also
known as acrophobia.

26. Globophobia
• The world is a strange place:
we often accept someone’s
fear of heights or fear of
spiders as ‘something normal’.
However, when it comes to
the fear of balloons phobia,
people usually laugh about it.
As far as the “silliest or most
irrational” fears go;
Globophobia is high up in the
list. Even Oprah Winfrey
shocked her audience by
admitting to having
experienced the fear of
balloons phobia.

27. Hydrophobia
• extreme or
irrational fear of
water, especially
as a symptom of
rabies in
humans.