General Medical Terms

Tissue in which new blood cells are formed.

In medicine, loss of blood from damaged blood vessels.

An enlarged or swollen blood vessel, usually located near the anus or the rectum.

Hepatic describes anything relating to, affecting, or associated with the liver, including its blood vessels, tissue, and function.

A block in blood flow to the liver.

The major blood vessel that carries blood to the liver.

Having to do with the liver, bile ducts, and/or gallbladder.

Herbal describes products or remedies derived from plants, which can carry measurable pharmacologic effects and interactions despite a natural origin.

A type of medicine that uses roots, stems, leaves, flowers, or seeds of plants to improve health, prevent disease, and treat illness.

A herbicide is a chemical formulated to kill unwanted plants, and exposure to certain herbicides can also cause toxicity in humans.

Families share more than genes, and separating the inherited from the merely shared is the harder half of reading a family history.

The bulging of an internal organ through a weak area or tear in the muscle or other tissue that holds it in place.

A herpesvirus is any member of a large family of viruses that establish lifelong latent infection in the body after initial exposure.

A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.

One word doing three jobs, in radiology, pathology and research, and the reason a single sample can misrepresent a whole tumor.

Derived from a different source or species.

Derived from a different source or species.

A type of herpesvirus that may cause Kaposi sarcoma (a rare cancer that can cause skin lesions) and a type of lymphoma (cancer that begins in the lymph system), especially in patients who have a…

A term used to describe cells that look abnormal under a microscope.

Hilar describes the hilum, the specific point where vessels, nerves, and airways or ducts enter and exit an organ.