Three Week Voc

1. Word / Phrase: Foramen

Meaning: an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.

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2. Word / Phrase: Organelle

Meaning: A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function.

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3. Word / Phrase: Bacillus

Meaning: Any of various rod-shaped, usually gram-positive aerobic bacteria of the genus Bacillus that often occur in chains and include Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax.

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4. Word / Phrase: Chlorpheniramine

Meaning: an antihistaminic compound, C20H23ClN2O4, used in treating the symptoms of allergies.


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5. Word / Phrase: Dementia

Meaning: severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.

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6. Word / Phrase: Ecthyma

Meaning: a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

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7. Word / Phrase: Epiphysis

Meaning: a part or process of a bone separated from the main body of the bone by a layer of cartilage and subsequently uniting with the bone through further ossification.

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8. Word / Phrase: Epistasis

Meaning: a form of interaction between nonallelic genes in which one combination of such genes has a dominant effect over other combinations.

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9. Word / Phrase: Neurosis

Meaning: Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. No longer in scientific use.

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10. Word / Phrase: Subluxation

Meaning: a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.

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11. Word / Phrase: Ectoderm

Meaning: the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.

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12. Word / Phrase: Endoderm

Meaning: the innermost body tissue that derives from this layer, as the gut lining.

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13. Word / Phrase: Mesoderm

Meaning: The middle embryonic germ layer, lying between the ectoderm and the endoderm, from which connective tissue, muscle, bone, and the urogenital and circulatory systems develop.


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14. Word / Phrase: Osteomalacia

Meaning: A disease occurring mostly in adult women that results from a deficiency in vitamin D or calcium and is characterized by a softening of the bones with accompanying pain and weakness.

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15. Word / Phrase: Osteochondrosis

Meaning: a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.


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