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-gram, -gramme: record or picture Greek γράμμα (grámma), picture, letter, writing angiogram, gramophone -graph: instrument used to record data or picture Greek -γραφία (-graphía), written, drawn, graphic interpretation electrocardiograph, seismograph-graphy: process of recording
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine .
Graph; gram Write; draw; record Telegraph: the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters [see tele] Gyn Woman: Misogyny: The hatred of women [see miso] Helio: Sun: Heliotherapy: therapeutic exposure to sunlight [see therap] Hem; haem Blood: Hemorrhage: a profuse discharge of blood Hemi: Half
Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique used to visualize the inside, or lumen, of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins, and the heart chambers.
Etymology actually refers to soft, fleshy part of abdominal wall. The term celio-is generally considered more accurate and more commonly used in America. [citation needed] lobo- : related to a lobe (of the brain or lungs), from the latin lobo, ablative declension of lobus, itself from the Greek λοβός, lobós, "lobe", "pea-pod"
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Gram stain (Gram staining or Gram's method), is a method of staining used to classify bacterial species into two large groups: gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria. It may also be used to diagnose a fungal infection. [1] The name comes from the Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who developed the technique in 1884. [2]
The English suffix-graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.