Exploring Medical Language Final Study
Terms
undefined, object
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- a, an
- without, not, absence of
- ad-
- near, toward
- ante-
- before, forward
- anti-
- against
- brady-
- slow
- dia -
- through, complete
- dys-
- painful, difficult, laboured abnormal
- ecto-
- outside
- endo-
- within, inner
- epi-
- on, over, upon
- eu-
- normal, good
- exo-
- from, out from
- hyper-
- above, excessive
- hypo-
- below, incomplete, deficient
- hemi-
- half
- inter-
- between
- intra-
- within
- infra-
- below
- macro-
- large
- mal-
- bad
- meta-
- after, beyond, change
- micro-
- small
- multi-
- many
- neo-
- new
- nulli-
- none
- pan-
- all, total
- para-
- beside, beyond, around
- per-
- through
- peri-
- around
- poly-
- many, much
- post-
- after
- pre-
- before
- pro-
- before
- sub-
- under or below
- supra-
- above
- syn- , sym-
- together, united, joined
- trachy-
- fast
- trans-
- across
- aden/o
- gland
- ankyl/o
- crooked, stiff, bent
- atel/o
- imperfect, incomplete used in atelectasis
- ather/o
- yellowish, fatty plaque
- aut/o
- self
- bi/o
- life
- cancer/o
- cancer
- carcin/o
- cancer
- crypt/o
- hidden
- cyr/o
- cold
- dips/o
- thirst
- ech/o
- sound
- electric/o
- electricity, electrical activity
- esthesi/o
- sensation, sensitivity, feeling
- eti/o
- cause of disease
- gno/o
- knowledge
- heter/o
- other, different
- hom/o
- same
- iatr/o
- medicine, physician, treatment
- isch/o
- deficiency, blockage
- kines/o
- movement, motion
- myc/o
- fungus
- necr/o
- death or dead
- noct/i
- night
- olig/o
- scanty, few
- onc/o
- tumor
- path/o
- disease
- phas/o
- speech
- phot/o
- light
- prim/i
- first
- pseudo/o
- FALSE
- py/o
- pus
- pyr/o
- fire, high temp also fever
- psych/o
- mind
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- spir/o
- breathe, breathing
- therm/o
- heat
- tom/o
- cut, section
- ton/o
- tension, pressure
- anter/o
- before, front
- anteri/o
- before, front
- caud/o
- tail, down
- cephal/o
- head, up
- dextr/o
- right
- dors/o
- away, furthest
- eversion
- turning outside in
- extension
- straighten
- flexion
- bend
- infer/o
- below
- later/o
- side
- medi/o
- middle
- poster/o
- back, behind
- prone
- face, palm down
- proxim/o
- near (the point of attachment)
- rotation
- turning
- sinestr/o
- left
- super/o
- above
- supine
- face, palm up
- ventr/o
- belly
- dur/o
- hard
- eur/y
- wide
- kerat/o
- horny tissue, hard
- kyph/o
- hump
- mega, megal/o
- large
- lamin/o
- thin flat plate or layer
- lei/o
- smooth
- lord/o
- bent forward (buttocks back, chest out)
- orth/o
- straight, correct, right
- pachy/o
- thick
- rhabd/o
- rod shaped, striated
- ryytid/o
- wrinkles
- scoli/o
- crooked, curved (laterally)
- staphyl/o
- grape-like cluster
- sten/o
- narrow
- strept/o
- curved, twisted chain
- xer/o
- dry
- albumino/o
- albumin (protien)
- calc/i
- calcium
- fibr/o
- fiber
- glyc/o , glycos/o
- sugar
- hem/o, hemat/o
- blood
- hidr/o
- sweat
- hydr/o
- water
- kal/i
- potassium
- kerat/o, cerat/o
- horny, tough
- lact/o
- milk
- lip/o
- fat
- lith/o
- stone
- muc/o
- mucous
- ox/i, ox/o
- oxygen
- seb/o
- oil
- sial/o
- saliva
- thromb/o
- clot
- urin/o , ur/o
- urine, urinary tract
- leuk/o
- white
- melan/o
- black
- erythr/o
- red
- chlor/o
- green
- cyan/o
- blue
- cirrh
- orange yellow
- xantho
- yellow
- mono/o, uni
- one, single
- di, diplo, bi, bin
- two, double (diplopia (double vision)
- tri
- three
- tetr/a , quadr/i
- four
- dec/i
- ten, tenth
- centi
- one hundredth, 0.01
- kilo
- one thousand, 1000
- milli
- one thousandth 0.001
- poly, multi
- many
- hemi, semi
- half (hemiplegia)
- cyt/o
- cell
- epitheli/o
- epithelium as in skin
- hist/o
- tissue
- kary/o
- nucleus
- organ/o
- organ
- polyp/o
- polyp, small growth
- sarc/o
- flesh, connective tissue
- sept/o
- septum (dividing plate or wall)
- somat/o
- body
- system/o
- system
- algesia
- excessive sensitivity to pain
- algia
- painful, difficult, laboured abnormal
- aminos
- amniotic fluid
- apheresis
- removal
- asthenia
- weakness
- atresia
- absence of body opening
- capnia
- carbon dioxide
- cele
- hernia, protrusion
- clasia
- clast, break
- clasis
- breaking up, dissolution
- coccus
- berry shaped (a form of bacterium)
- crit
- to seperate
- cyesis
- pregnancy
- cyte
- cell
- desis
- fusion, surgical fixiation
- drome
- running
- ectasis
- stretching out, dilatation
- ectopia/ic
- malposition or displacement
- emia
- blood condition
- esthesia
- sensation, feeling
- gen
- substance or agent that produces or causes
- genesis
- formation, development
- genic
- producing, originating, causing
- itis
- inflammation/ infection of
- kinesia
- movement
- lepsy
- seizure
- logist
- one who studies and treats, a specialist, physician
- lysis
- loosening, dissolution, separating
- malacia
- softening
- megaly
- enlargment
- odvnia
- pain
- oid
- resembles, resembling
- oma
- tumor
- opsy
- view of, viewing
- osis
- abnormal condition of, means increase when used with blood
- oxia
- oxygen
- paresis
- slight paralysis
- penia
- abnormal reduction of
- pepsia
- digestion
- philia/(ic)
- love, affinity for
- phobia
- morbid fear
- phonia
- sound
- physis
- growth
- plasia
- condition of formation, growth, development
- plasm
- growth, substance, formation
- plegia
- paralysis
- pnea
- breathing
- poiesis
- development, formation
- ptosis
- dropping, sagging, prolapse
- rexia
- appetite
- rrhagia
- hemorrhage
- rrhea
- flow, excessive discharge
- rrhexis
- rupture
- sclerosis
- hardening
- sepsis
- infection
- spasm
- sudden, involuntary muscle contraction
- stasis
- control, stop, standing
- stenosis
- abnormal condition of constriction or narrowing
- tripsy
- surgical crushing
- uria
- condition of urine
- blast
- embryonic cell
- gnos(is)
- knowledge
- odynia
- pain
- opia
- vision
- phagia
- eating, swallowing
- trophy
- development, nourishment
- schisis
- split, fissure
- a
- no meaning
- ac
- pertaining to
- al
- pertaining to
- ar
- pertaining to
- ary
- pertaining to
- eal
- pertaining to
- esis
- condition
- ia
- diseased or abnormal state, condition of
- ial
- condition
- iasis
- condition
- ic
- pertaining to
- ior
- no meaning
- ism
- state of
- is
- no meaning
- ous
- pertaining to
- sis
- state of
- us
- no meaning
- ectomy
- excision, surgical removal