Fisher Medical Vocab. Chapter 2
Terms
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- amphi-, ampho-
- on both sides, around, both
- ana-
- up, back, against
- apo-
- away from
- cata- (cat-)
- downward, disordered
- dia-(di-)
- through, across, apart
- eso-
- within, inner, inward
- eu-
- good, normal, healthy
- heter-, hetero-
- different, other, relationship to another
- homo-, homeo-
- same, likeness
- meta- (met-)
- change, transformation, after, behind
- para- (par-)
- alongside, around, abnormal, beyond
- pro-
- before
- pros-, prosth-
- in place of
- -al
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Latin-derived adjectival suffix
pertaining to, located in - -ase
- forms names of enzymes
- -asia, -asis
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form abstract nouns
state, condition - -ema
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forms abstract nouns
state, condition - -esis
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forms abstract nouns
state, condition, procedure - -etic
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forms adjectives, often forms nouns ending in -esis
pertaining to - -ics, -tics
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forms nouns indicating a particular science or study
science or study of - -ism
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forms abstract nouns
state, condition, quality - -ismus
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forms abstract nouns
state, condition; muscular spasm - -oid, -ode, -id
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form both nouns and adjectives indicating a particular shape, form, or resembalance
like, resembling - -oma
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forms abstract nouns
usually tumor; occasionally disease - -ose
-
Latin-derived adjectival suffix, also used in to form names of chemical substances
full of, resembling - -ous
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Latin-dervied adjectival suffix
pertaining to, characterized by, full of - -us
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Latin noun-forming ending
condition, person (sometimes a malformed fetus) - -ize
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Greek-derived suffix
to make, become, cause to be, subject to, engage in - acr-
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combining form
extremities (particularly the hands and feet) - ambly-
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combining form
dull, faint - carcin-
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combining form
carcinoma, cancer - -cel-
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combining form
hernia, tumor, swelling - cheir-, chir-
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combining form
hand - chol(e)-
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combining form
bile, gall - col(i)-, colon-
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combining form
colon - cyan-
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combining form
blue - cyst(i)-, -cystis
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combining form
bladder, cyst - diplo-
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combining form
double, twin - enter-
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combining form
(small) intestine - erg-
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combining form
action, work - gastr-
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combining form
stomach - hem-, hemat-, -em-
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combining form
blood - hepar-, hepat-
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combining form
liver - lip-
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combining form
fat - macr-
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combining form
(abnormally) large or long - mega-, megal-
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combining form
(abnormally) large or long - melan-
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combining form
dark, black - micr-
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combining form
(abnormally small) - nyct-
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combining form
night - odyn-
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combining form
pain - onc-
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combining form
tumor - pachy-
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combining form
thick - pseud-
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combining form
false - py-
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combining form
pus - sarc-
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combining form
flesh, soft tissue - spasm-
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combining form
spasm, involuntary muscle contraction - splen-
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combining form
spleen - stom-, stomat-
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combining form
mouth, opening - -stomy
- indicates sugical procedures
- anastomsis
- formation of a passage between any two normally distinct spaces or organs
- entroentersostomy
- the creation of a communication between two noncontiguous segments of the intestine
- colostom
- the formation of a more or less permanent passage between the colon and the surface of the abdomen
- -stomata, -stomas
-
plural form of -stoma
opening - trachoma
- a chronic contagious form of conjuctivitis
- glaucoma
- a destructive disease of the eye caused by increased intraocelar pressure
- sarcoma
- a malignant tumor originating in connective tissue
- angiosarcoma
- a malignant tumor originating in the muscular tissue of a blood vessel
- hemangiosarcoma
- a malignant tumor originating in the muscular tissue of a blood vessel
- neurosarcoma
- a sarcoma containing nerve cells
- hepatoma
- tumor of the liver
- nephroma
- tumor of a kidney
- cholangioma
- a tumor of the bile ducts
- hematoma
- a swelling that contains blood
- melanoma
- a malignant tumor composed of cells of melanin
- melanin
- the substance that gives pigmentation to the hair, skin and other tissues
- melanomatosis
- the formation of numerous melanomas on or beneath the skin
- mastoncus
- tumor of the breast
- oncology
- the branch of medicine dealing with tumors
- gastrocele
- hernia of the stomach
- urocele
- an accumulation of urine in the scrotal sac
- rectlocele
- hernia of the rectum into the vagina
- -gaster
- refer to embryonic structures
- cholecyst-
- refer to the gallbladder
- kel-
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an alternat form of cel-
hernia, tumor, swell - -cele
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suffix
hernia; indicates a swelling caused by an abnormal accmulation of fluid