The Language of Medicine Ch 6
Terms
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-ectasis
-ectasia -
stretching
dilation
dilatation - -emesis
- vomiting
- -lysis
-
destruction
breakdown
separation - -pepsia
- digestion
- -phagia
-
eating
swallowing - -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
-
prolapse
fall
sag - -ptysis
- spitting
-
-rrhage
-rrhagia - bursting forth
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -rrhea
-
flow
discharge - -spasm
-
sudden
involuntary contraction of muscles - -stasis
-
to stop
control - -stenosis
-
tightening
stricture
narrowing - -tresia
- opening
- bucc/o
- cheek
- cec/o
-
cecum
(first part of the colon) - celi/o
-
belly
abdomen - cheil/o
- lip
- chol/e
-
bile
gall - cholangi/o
- bile vessel
- cholecyst/o
- gallbladder
- choledoch/o
- common bile duct
- col/o
-
colon
(large intestine) - colon/o
-
colon
(large intestine) - dent/i
- tooth
- duoden/o
- duodenum
- enter/o
-
intestines
(usually small intestine) - esophag/o
- esophagus
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gingiv/o
- gum
- gloss/o
- tongue
- glyc/o
-
glucose
sugar - hepat/o
- liver
- herni/o
- hernia
- ile/o
- ileum
- jejun/o
- jejunum
- labi/o
- lip
- lingu/o
- tongue
- lip/o
-
fat
lipid - lith/o
-
stone
calculus - odont/o
- tooth
- or/o
- mouth
- palat/o
-
palate
(roof of the mouth) - pancreat/o
- pancreas
- proct/o
- anus and rectum
- pylor/o
-
pylorus
pyloric sphincter - rect/o
- rectum
- sialaden/o
- salivary gland
- splen/o
- spleen
- steat/o
-
fat
sebum - stomat/o
- mouth