Medical Vocabulary from Lesson 2
Terms
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- amphi-,ampho
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Prefix
on both sides, around, both - ana-
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Preix
up, back, against - apo-
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Prefix
away from - cata-, cat-
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Prefix
downward, disordered - dia-, di-
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Prefix
through, across, apart - eso-
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Prefix
within, inner, inward - eu-
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Prefix
good, normal, healthy - heter-, hetero-
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Prefix
different, other, relationship to another - homo-,homeo-
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Prefix
same, likeness - meta-, met-
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Prefix
change, transformation, after, behind - para-, par-
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Prefix
alongside, around, abnormal, beyond - pro-
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Prefix
before - pros-, prosth-
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Prefix
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
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noun-forming suffix
state, condition - -ema
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noun-forming suffix
state, condition - -esis
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noun-forming suffix
state, condition, procedure - -etic
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adjective-forming suffix
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, condtion; muscular spasm - -oid,-ode,-id
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noun and adjecting-forming suffix
indicating a particular shape, form, or resenbalance: like, resembling - -oma, -omat
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noun-forming suffix
tumor, disease - -omata
- plural of -omat
- -ose
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adjective-forming suffix
used to forming names of chemical substances: full of, resembling - -ous
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adjective-forming suffix
pertaining to, characterized by, full of - -us
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noun-forming suffix
condtion, person
sometimes a malformed fetus - -ize
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Greek-derived suffix
"to make, become, cause to be, subject to, engage in" - -ate
- used to form the names of chemical substances
- -ide
- siffix used to form the names of chemical substances
- -ite
- suffix used to form the names of chemical substances
- -one
- suffix used to formt the names of chemical substances
- acr-
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Combining form
extremities (particularly the hands and feet) - ambly-
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Combining form
dull, faint - carcin-
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Combining form
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 - psued-
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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 - coli-
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prefix
refer to the colon baillus, Escherichia coli - cyst(i)-
- refer to the urinary bladder
- cholecyst-
- refer to the gallbladder