Biology
- #53 Summary Of Smoking
1 Tobacco smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine. 2 Tar settles on the epithelium lining the bronchi and bronchioles and stimulates inflammation, an increase in the secretion of mucus and an accumulation of phagocytes...
- #52 Cigarette Smoking And Health
Smoking is one of the major avoidable risk factors of chronic, life-threatening diseases of the gas exchange and circulatory systems. The smoke from cigarettes contains several substances that affect the gas exchange system and...
- Angioplasty
Term: angioplastyLiterally meaning: ?vessel forming? or ?vessel molding??Origin: Anc Greek??????/aggio (=vessel, receptacle) > ?????/aggos(=tube)+??????/plasso(=to shape) Coined/HistoryThe term was coined in January...
- Steatocystoma
Term: steatocystoma Literally meaning: ?growth of a cyst filled with fatty matter? Origin: Anc Greek?????/stear(=tallow) (genitive:???????/steatos)??????/cystis(=pouch or anatomical sac eg bladder) > ???/kyo(=carry a baby in a sac)+(-???)/-oma (suffix...
- Aneurism
Term: aneurism Origin: Anc Greek ??????????/-aneurunein(=to dilate) >???/ana(=up, on top) +????????/eurinein(=to widen)> ?????/euris(=wide) Coined: Aneurysms were recognized in very early times especially those seen on superficial inspection...
Biology
atheroma
Term: atheroma
Origin: ?????/?????/atheri(=groats, or porridge) + -oma (-noun suffix used usually to form names of tumors or to denote marked growth). The term derived by the sense of the fatty depost in the inner lining of the artery like an encysted tumor full of gruel-like matter.
Coined: by Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) in 1755 leading later to the meaning of atherosclerosis (Scarpa 1804, Lobstein 1833). By Celsus the word was used with the meaning of swelling on the head or a tumor filled with matter.
Definition:
A fatty deposit in the intima of an artery (innermost layer of the wall of an artery), occurring in atherosclerosis.
Runon derivatives :
atherectomy , atherogenesis , atherogenic , atheromatous
atherome , atherosclerosis , atherosclerotic, atherosis
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Source
JO Leibowitz ?The history of coronary heart disease?, 1970Volume XVIII, University of California
- #53 Summary Of Smoking
1 Tobacco smoke contains tar, carbon monoxide and nicotine. 2 Tar settles on the epithelium lining the bronchi and bronchioles and stimulates inflammation, an increase in the secretion of mucus and an accumulation of phagocytes...
- #52 Cigarette Smoking And Health
Smoking is one of the major avoidable risk factors of chronic, life-threatening diseases of the gas exchange and circulatory systems. The smoke from cigarettes contains several substances that affect the gas exchange system and...
- Angioplasty
Term: angioplastyLiterally meaning: ?vessel forming? or ?vessel molding??Origin: Anc Greek??????/aggio (=vessel, receptacle) > ?????/aggos(=tube)+??????/plasso(=to shape) Coined/HistoryThe term was coined in January...
- Steatocystoma
Term: steatocystoma Literally meaning: ?growth of a cyst filled with fatty matter? Origin: Anc Greek?????/stear(=tallow) (genitive:???????/steatos)??????/cystis(=pouch or anatomical sac eg bladder) > ???/kyo(=carry a baby in a sac)+(-???)/-oma (suffix...
- Aneurism
Term: aneurism Origin: Anc Greek ??????????/-aneurunein(=to dilate) >???/ana(=up, on top) +????????/eurinein(=to widen)> ?????/euris(=wide) Coined: Aneurysms were recognized in very early times especially those seen on superficial inspection...