Med Terms- Respiratory System
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- -algia
- pain
-
-ar, -ary, -eal
-
pertaining to
- -cele
-
hernia or protrusion
- -centesis
-
surgical puncture to aspirate fluid
- -ectasis
-
stretching out, dilatation, expansion
- -emia
-
blood condition
- -gram
-
record, x-ray image
- -graphy
-
process of recording, x-ray imaging
- -meter
-
instrument used to measure
- -metry
- measurement
- -oxia
- oxygen
- -pexy
-
surgical fixation, suspension
- -phonia
-
sound or voice
- -pnea
- breathing
- -rrhagia
-
rapid flow of blood
- -scope
-
instrument used for visual examination
- -scopic
-
pertaining to visual examination
- -scopy
-
visual examination
- -spasm
-
sudden, involuntary muscle contraction
- -stenosis
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constriction or narrowing
- -stomy
-
creation of an artificial opening
- -thorax
- chest
- -tomy
-
cut into or incision
- a-,an-
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without or absence of
- adenoid/o
- Adendoids
- alveol/o
- Alveolus
- atel/o
-
imperfect, incomplete
-
bronch/i, bronch/o
- Bronchus
- capn/o
- carbon dioxide
- diaphragmat/o
- diaphragm
- endo-
- within
- epiglott/o
- epiglottis
- eu-
-
normal, good
-
hem/o, hemat/o
- blood
- laryng/o
- larynx
- lob/o
- lobe
- muc/o
- mucus
-
nas/o, rhin/o
- nose
- orth/o
- straight
-
ox/o, ox/i
- oxygen
- pan-
-
all, total
- pharyng/o
- pharynx
- pleur/o
- pleura
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pneum/o, pneumat/o, pneumon/o
-
lung, air
- poly-
-
many, much
- pulmon/o
- lung
- py/o
- pus
-
sept/o
-
septum (wall off, fence)
- sinus/o
-
sinus
- somn/o
- sleep
- spir/o
-
breathe, breathing
-
thorac/o
- thorax (chest)
- tonsill/o
- tonsil
- trache/o
- trachea