Lesson 2 Terms
Terms
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- amphi-, ampho-
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On both sides, around, both - ana-
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Up, back, against - apo-
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Away from - cata-(cat-)
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Downward, disordered - dia-(di-)
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Through, across, apart - eso-
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Within, inner, inward - eu-
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Good, normal, healthy - heter-, hetero
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Different, other, relationship to another - homo-, homeo-
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Same, likeness - meta- (met-)
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Change, transformation, after, behind - para- (par-)
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Alongside, around, abnormal, beyond - pro-
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Before - pros-, prosth-
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In place of - -al
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Pertaining to, located in - -ase
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Enzyme name - -asia, -asis
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State, condition - -ema
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State, condition, - -emat-
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State, condition - -esis
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Sate, condition, procedure - -etic
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Pertaining to - -ics, -tics
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Indicates a particular science or study; science or study of - -ism
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State, condition, quality - -ismus
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State, condition, muscular spasm - -oid, -ode, -id
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Indicates a particular shape, form, or resemblance; like, resembling - -oma
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Usually tumor; occasionally diseaes - -omat- (plural -omata-)
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Usually tumor; occasionally diseases - -ose
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Form names of chemical substances: full of, resembling - -ous
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Pertaining to, characterized by, full of - tics
- Plural form of -ics
- -us
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Condition, person (sometimes a malformed fetus) - -ize
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To make, become, cause to be, subject to, engage in - -ate
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Chemical Substance - -ide
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Chemical Substance - -ite
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Chemical Substance - -one
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Chemical Substance - coli-
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Prefix or Combining Form
Refer to the colon bacillus, E. coli - cyst(i)-
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Urinary bladder - cholecyst-
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Gallbladder - acr-
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extremities (usually hands and feet) - ambly-
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dull, faint - carcin-
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carcinoma, cancer - -cel-
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hernia, tumor, swelling - cheir-, chir-
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hand - chol(e)-
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bile, gall - col(i)-, colon-
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colon - cyan-
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blue - cyst(i)-, -cystis
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bladder, cyst - diplo-
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double, twin - enter-
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(small) intestine - erg-
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action, work - gastr-
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stomach - hem-, hemat-, -em-
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blood - hepar-, hepat-
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liver - lip-
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fat - macr-
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(abnormally) large or long - mega-, megal-
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(abnormally) large or long - melan-
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dark, black - micr-
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(abnormally) small - nyct-
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night - odyn-
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pain - onc-
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tumor - pachy-
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thick - pseud-
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false - py-
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pus - sarc-
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flesh, soft tissue - spasm-
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spasm, involuntary muscular contraction - splen-
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spleen - stom-, stomat-
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mouth, opening