The Language of Medicine Ch 19
Terms
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copy deck
- alveol/o
- small sac
- cac/o
- bad
- carcin/o
-
cancer
cancerous - cauter/o
-
burn
heat - chem/o
-
chemical
drug - cry/o
- cold
- cyst/o
- sac of fluid
- fibr/o
- fibers
- follicul/o
- small glandular sacs
- fung/i
-
fungus
mushroom - medull/o
-
soft
inner part - mucos/o
- mucous membrane
- mut/a
- genetic change
- mutagen/o
- causing genetic change
- onc/o
- tumor
- papill/o
- nipple-like
- pharmac/o
-
chemical
drug - plas/o
- formation
- ple/o
-
many
more - polyp/o
- polyp
- radi/o
-
rays
x-rays - sarc/o
-
flesh
connective tissue - scirrh/o
- hard
- xer/o
- dry
- -blastoma
- immature tumor
- -genesis
- formation
- -oma
-
mass
tumor - -plasia
-
formation
growth - -plasm
-
formation
growth - -suppression
- to stop
- -therapy
- treatment
- ana-
- backward
- apo-
-
off
away - brachy-
- near
- epi-
- upon
- meta-
-
beyond
change - tele-
- far