- Glossary of terms
Glossary of terms
Medical terms
In the medical world and also in physiotherapy many difficult terms are used. But what do they actually mean? We are happy to explain.
This list shows a number of commonly used medical terms:
Glossary of terms
- Akinesia
- Anterior and posterior
- Bradykinesia
- Conservative or operative
- Core stability (rompstabiliteit)
- Cranial and caudal
- Curative or palliative
- Hypokinesia
- Kinematic chain
- Lateral and medial
- Morbidity, multimorbidity and comorbidity
- Movements
- Muscle coordination
- Progressive and regressive
- Proximal and distal
- Vein
- Ventral and dorsal