#medical terminology
- Asomato- — A scientific combining form (prefixoid) extracted from the Greek language, formed by combining the privative prefix 'a-' (without) and the noun 'soma, -atos' (body); it means bodiless, incorporeal, immaterial, or lacking an organized physical structure. It is used in theoretical biology, philosophy, or rare medical terminology to form neologisms describing entities or states without a body.
- Astaso- — A scientific combining form used as a prefixoid in international medical terminology to introduce the concept of astasia (inability to stand erect); it originates from Greek and serves exclusively to form compound words within the sphere of motor pathology and neurology (such as astasia-abasia, the syndrome combining the inability to stand and to walk).
- Asteatosis — A dermatological condition characterized by a severe diminution or total absence of sebum secretion by the sebaceous glands, leading to extreme skin dryness, flaking, cutaneous fissures, and a high predisposition to irritations or infections; it is a pathological state opposite to seborrhea, frequently encountered in elderly individuals or associated with certain endocrine or metabolic disorders.
- Asthenic — Relating to asthenia or characterized by asthenia; an element, symptom, or organism marked by weakness, lack of energy, or chronic fatigue; as a noun or typological adjective, it denotes a person with a slender, longilinear physical constitution, narrow chest, and fine musculature, associated in biotypology with a temperament prone to introversion and sensitivity.
- Asthenic — The feminine form of the word 'astenic'; it refers to a person or a manifestation characterized by organic weakness, exhaustion, or chronic fatigue; in psychology and anthropology, it describes a woman with a slender, longilinear physical constitution, fine musculature, and a narrow chest, associated with a sensitive and introverted temperament.
- Enervation — The act of enervating or bringing into a state of asthenia and its result; the medical, physiological, or psychological process through which an organism is reduced to a state of exhaustion, profound weakness, or loss of vital energy; physical or nervous overwork caused by pathogenic factors, stress, or overloading effort.
- Asteno- — A scientific combining form (prefixoid) extracted from the Greek language (from 'asthenes'); it means weak, lacking strength, vigor, or resistance, directly related to asthenia. It is used in medicine, biology, or psychopathology to form neologisms describing states of weakness, functional deficiencies, or reductions in organic tone.
- Deafening — The act of deafening and its result; a physiological or accidental process through which hearing is temporarily or permanently lost; it also represents the destructive or disruptive acoustic effect generated by a high-intensity noise that exceeds the comfort threshold of the human ear.
- Atrophic — Pertaining to atrophy, relating to atrophy, or exhibiting its characteristics; causing a structural and functional diminution of tissues. It is used in clinical terminology to define specific types of inflammatory, degenerative, or dermatological conditions characterized by marked thinning of membranes or organs.
- Autoemesis — A specialized clinical term designating the voluntary, reflexive, or spontaneous induction of vomiting (emesis) by an individual, without the intervention of external emetic factors or chemical medicinal substances; a symptom or behavior often encountered in digestive dynamics disorders or psychiatric neuro-behavioral conditions.
- Autistic — Suffering from autism, relating to autism, or specific to individuals exhibiting features of the autism spectrum disorder. As a noun, it denotes a person clinically diagnosed with this neurobiological developmental condition.
- Autistic female — The feminine singular form of the word autist; suffering from autism or exhibiting characteristics specific to the autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As a noun, it denotes a woman or a girl clinically diagnosed with this neurobiological developmental condition.
- To injure oneself — To cause oneself, involuntarily or accidentally, a bodily injury, wound, or trauma during physical, domestic, or professional activities; to suffer an accident through one's own fault or carelessness, without the direct involvement of another person or a major external factor.
- Self-injured — Having suffered an accident or bodily injury through one's own fault, carelessness, or overexertion, without the direct intervention of a third party or a major external factor; a person (especially an athlete) who injured themselves during an activity.
- Autodigestion — A physiological or pathological process by which an organism, tissue, or cell destroys and digests its own structures or constituents under the action of endogenous proteolytic enzymes; a destructive cellular phenomenon associated with severe autophagy or enzymatic necrosis.
- To autovaccinate — To subject or submit oneself to an immunological treatment based on the injection of an autogenous vaccine; to vaccinate a patient using microbial cultures obtained from their own body to generate specific biological resistance against a resistant infection.