VU Med Term 2
Terms
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- -scope
- instrument to view or examine
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -scopy
- visual examination
- -ectasis
- dilation, expansion
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -desis
- binding or fixation of a bone or joint
- -clasis
- break or fracture
- phleb/o
- blood
- -algia
- pain
- -phobia
- fear
- -tomy
- incision or cut into
- -gram
- record, a writing
- -pathy
- disease
- -tripsy
- crushing
- -dynia
- pain
- -malacia
- softening
- -toxic
- poison
- -lysis
- separation, destruction, loosening
- -genesis
- forming, producing, origin
- -philia
- attraction to
- -stasis
- standing still
- mast/o
- breast
- -oid
- resembling
- -centesis
- puncture
- -gen
- forming, formation, origin
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -emia
- blood condition
- -plasia
- formation, growth
- -lith
- stone, calculus
- -rrhage
- bursting forth
- -tome
- instrument to cut
- -paresis
- partial paralysis
- -logy
- the study of
- -phasia
- speech
- -oma
- tumor
- -metry
- act of measuring
- -megaly
- enlargement
- colon/o
- colon
- -cele
- hernia, swelling
- -emesis
- vomiting
- -pexy
- suspension or fixation of an organ
- -phagia
- eating, swallowing
- -para
- to bear (offspring)
- -trophy
- development, nourishment
- -ectomy
- excision or removal
- -penia
- decrease, deficiency
- -stomy
- forming an opening
- -logist
- specialist in the study of
- -ptosis
- prolapse, downward displacement
- -meter
- instrument for measuring
- -itis
- inflammation
- -graphy
- process of recording
- cephal/o
- head
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- encephal/o
- brain
- -plegia
- paralysis, stroke
- -iasis
- abnormal condition
- -spasm
- involuntary contraction, twitching
- -poiesis
- formation, production
- -rrhagia
- bursting forth
- -rrhea
- discharge, flow
- -osis
- abnormal condition, increase (used primarily with blood cells)
- -stenosis
- narrowing, stricture