vocabulary

• Allopathic – medical approach utilizing more synthetic drugs to obtain symptomatic relief and the healing of the disease
• Anaplasia – shapeless cellular immaturity
• Areactivity – inability to react
• Autocrine and paracrine – pseudo–hormonal release mechanisms
• Bio-energetic fluid – energy flux emanating from a tissue or organ (example, heat)
• Cachexy – terminal state of debilitation
• Consubstantiality – the characteristic of being of the same substance
• Empyema – infection
• Encystment – encapsulation
• Ens morbi – morbid entity
• Epithelium – tissue that wraps the organs and living tissues
• Gene – groups of molecules made of DNA containing the hereditary traits of a species
• Genetics – the branch of biology that studies genes
• Heteroplastic rooting – this refers to cells that should not be present in the tissue examined
• Heterotrophus – refers to an organ that depends on ready nourishment, that is, it is unable to synthesize nourishment by itself
• Holistic – synergetic approach to combined physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of health and human disease
• Homeostatic – that which maintains internal equilibrium
• Hyperchlorhydria – gastric acidity
• Hyperplasia – abnormal increase of cells
• Hyperpyrexia – high fever
• Hyphas – fungin cellular unit
• Immunosuppression – suppression of the natural immune defenses of an organism; it can be caused by chemical, emotional, energetic and other factors
• Metabolic disorder (dismetabolism) – altered metabolism
• Metabolism – energetic-chemical activity of the organism
• Metaphysics – study of the fundamental principles of life beyond sensory perceptions
• Metastasis – cancer masses that develop and migrate from an initial tumor. From the Greek metastasis = what comes later
• Microbial disorder (dismicrobism) – abnormal microbial development
• Multifactoriality – multiple causality, concomitance of many factors
• Mycetes – fungus
• Neurotrophic virosis – neural disease that attacks the nervous system
• Nosology – classification of disease
• Noxa – disease
• Parenchymal – part of an organ’s matter
• Pathogen – what produces the disease
• Phagocytosis – cellular activity that assimilates/ingests external particulate elements
• Phyto-drug – vegetal type drug
• Phytopathology – study of disease in the vegetable kingdom
• Pleuradesis – operation on the pleura
• Polymorphism – the quality of an organism to assume different forms
• Port-a-cath – small subcutaneous device connected to a vascular catheter
• Psoriasis – a cutaneous disease characterized by scaly dry whitish patches
• Quantum physics – branch of physics that studies the energy characteristics of matter at a subatomic level
• Saprophyte – a micro-organism that feeds on decomposing substances
• Selective arteriography – radiological methodology to visualize specific arteries through a special instrument called an angiograph
• Sodium bicarbonate – chemical compound used in the Simoncini therapy for the disintegration of the fungin masses that cause cancer
• Steatosic – fat