Category: A

  • Avitaminotic

    Diseases due to lack of vitamins.  

  • Avirulent

    Lacking poisonous or infective properties.   This passage describes a type of pathogenic microorganism that lacks the ability to cause serious illness. It is often referred to as avirulent, though this term is preferred over simply “non-virulent” to prevent confusion with the phrase “a virulent.”  

  • Atrophia

    A wasting away.  

  • Atocia

    Female barrenness.  

  • Athyroidism

    Deficient thyroid gland secretion; absence of thyroid gland. Suppression of thyroid secretions, or absence of the thyroid gland.  

  • Athymia

    Absence of feeling or emotion.  

  • Athrombia

    Defective blood clotting. An inherited disorder in which there is a defect of blood clotting caused by a deficiency in the formation of thrombin.  

  • Asynovia

    Deficiency in secretion of joint fluid.  

  • Asynergia, asynergy

    Incoordination between parts normally acting in harmony. Discoordination of body parts or organs that normally work together harmoniously. Also called asynergia.  

  • Asynechia

    Discontinuity in structure of an organ or tissue. Lack of continuity of structure in an organ or tissue.