General Medical Terms

Speech produced by trapping air in the esophagus and forcing it out again.

Examination of the esophagus using an esophagoscope.

A form of estrogen that may have fewer side effects than other forms.

A substance that comes from a type of sea squirt and is being studied in the treatment of cancer.

The hard cases are hard because two sound principles point in opposite directions, not because anyone has done something wrong.

A final personal message or document in which a person shares his or her thoughts, values, memories, life lessons, advice, and hopes for the future.

A form of poppy seed oil that contains iodine.

A type of paranasal sinus (a hollow space in the bones around the nose).

Diagnosis names what a condition is; etiology names what produced it, and the two answers can be separated by decades of research.

Eucalyptus oil is a plant derived ingredient added in small amounts to cough drops and chest rubs, though the concentrated oil is toxic if swallowed.

Intention is what the definitions turn on, which is why several superficially similar practices near the end of life are classified separately.

Patients whose response to a treatment can be measured because enough information has been collected.

Outside of the living body.

To get rid of waste material from the blood, tissues, or organs by a normal discharge (such as sweat, urine, or stool).

Exenteration is an extensive surgery that removes multiple organs from within a body cavity, most often as treatment for advanced cancer.

A pancreatic cell that produces enzymes that are secreted into the small intestine.

Outside of the cranium (bones that surround the brain).

An area of the body other than the ovaries or testes.

Extrahepatic describes structures, findings, or disease processes located outside the liver, as distinguished from those confined within the liver itself.

Refers to an area or organ outside of the lymph nodes.