Medical Terms of Quite Ordinary Things About the Human Body Which May Sound Bizarre

Here's a list of medical terminologies of commonly heard things about the human body which may sound unusual. You may know some but certainly not all, unless you are a medical expert.

1. Did you ever experience having difficulty, or painful, or incomplete urination? The medical term for this is - dysuria
2. Is it your habit to grind your teeth during sleep or when otherwise under strain? My little brother used to have this habit called - bruxism
3. What do you call the inability to urinate? The term for this is - anuria
4. There are certain women who are experiencing painful sexual intercourse. They call it - dyspareunia.
5. Are you having difficulty is swallowing? The medical term for this is - dysphagia
6. A person having an offensive mouth odor, usually caused by poor oral hygiene is called - halitosis
7. One of my dorm mates in college used to sleepwalk while he's sleeping. The act of walking while asleep (popularly known as sleep walking) is - somnam bulism.
8. Dyslexia is the loss of the ability to read due to a central brain lesion
9. What do you call a person who is toothless? Toothless or having no teeth is - edentulous
10. Bedwetting usually occurs to children but in some cases, even adults. The pathological term for incontinence of urine is - enuresis.
11. Nosebleed in pathology is - epistaxis
12. Rhytidoplasty is a medical term which means face lift
13. A premature infant or baby is called - premie
14. Morbid acuteness of hearing in pathology is - hypercusia
15. Hyperopia or hypermetropia is an abnormal condition of the eye in which objects at a distance are seen more plainly than those near at hand means farsightedness
16. Hyperpyrexia is a term in pathology which means very high fever
17. Gonad is a male or female sex gland in which the gametes develop; ovary or testicles
18. Another word for a woman who's pregnant - gravid
19. Another term for influenza is - grippe
20. Did you experienced having blood in your urine? Hematuria is the medical term for bloody urine; blood in the urine

Here's an additional list;

1. Hematoma - blood tumor
2. Integument means skin
3. Lunula or lunule is a word of Latin origin which means- the living part of the nail, the pale half-moon shape at the nail base
4. Mastoplasty is a the medical term for a surgical procedure to reduce the size of the breast
5. Micturate is a medical term which simply means to urinate
6. Miliaria is an acute inflammatory disease of the sweat glands marked by an eruption of vesicles and papulae of the size of a pinpoint or larger or simply known as prickly heat
7. Multipara is the term for a woman who has borne more than one child or who is parturient the second time
8. Myopia is a defect in vision that objects can bee seen distinctly only when very near - nearsightedness. Myope is one who is near-sighted.
9. Mydriasis is an abnormal or prolonged dilation of the pupil of the eye
10. Neonate simply means a newborn baby or infant
11. Nocturia is a term in pathology which means frequent urination during the night
12. Osteitis is the medical term for the inflammation of the bone. Osteomata are tumors consisting of bony substances.
13. Patella is the flat, movable, oval bone, in front of the knee joint - knee cap
14. Primipara is a woman pregnant for the first time or who has borne one child
15. Bulimia is a disorder involving over eating followed by self-induced vomiting