Lesson 2 Flashcards
Terms
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- amphi-, ampho-
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Prefix
on both sides, around, both - ana-
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up, back, against - apo-
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away from - cata- (cat- before a vowel or h)
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downward, disordered - dia- (di- before a vowel)
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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- before a vowel or h)
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change, transformation, after, behind - para- (often par- before a vowel)
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alongside, around, abnormal, beyond - pro-
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Prefix
before - pros-, prosth-
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in place of - -al
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Adjective forming suffix
pertaining to, located in - -ase
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Noun forming suffix
forms names of enzymes - -asia, -asis(rare)
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Noun forming suffix
state, condition - -ema
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Noun forming suffix
state, condition.
The combining form of nouns ending in -ema is -emat- - -esis
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Noun forming suffix
state, condition, procedure - -etic
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Adjective forming suffix often from nouns ending in -esis.
Pertaining to - -ics, -tics
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Noun forming suffix
science or study of - -ism
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Noun forming suffix
state, condition, quality - -ismus
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Noun forming suffix
state, condition; muscular spasm - -oid, (rarely) -ode, -id
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Adjective and noun forming suffix
like, resembling - -oma
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Noun forming suffix
usually tumor; occasionally disease. The combining form of nouns ending in -oma is -omat-; the plural often is -omata - -ose
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Adjective forming suffix
also used to form names of chemical substances: full of, resembling - -ous
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Adjective forming suffix
pertaining to, characterized by, full of - -tics
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Noun forming suffix
science or study of - -us
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Noun forming suffix
condition, person - -ize
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Verb forming suffix
to make, become, cause to be, subject to, engage in - acr-
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Combining form
[highest point] extremities (particularly the hands and feet) - ambly-
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Combining form
dull, faint - carcin-
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Combining form
[crab] carcinoma, cancer - -cel-
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hernia, tumor, swelling - cheir-, chir-
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Combining form
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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Combining form
mouth, opening - -ate
- suffix that forms names of chemical substances
- -ide
- suffix that forms names of chemical substances
- -ite
- suffix that forms names of chemical substances
- -one
- suffix that forms names of chemical substances
- coli-
- usually refers to the colon bacillus
- cyst(i)-
- usually refers to the urinary bladder
- cholecyst-
- refers to the gallbladder