Lesson 2 for Medical vocab
Terms
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- amphi, ampho-
- on both sides, around, both
- ana-
- up, back, against
- apo-
- away from
- cata- (cat before a vowel or h)
- downward, disordered
- dia-
- through, across, apart
- eso-
- within, inner, inward
- eu-
- good, normal, healthy
- heter, hetero-
- different, other, relationship to another
- homo, homeo-
- same, likeness
- meta-
- change, transformation, after, behind
- para-
- alongside, around, abnormal, beyond
- pro-
- before
- pros, prosth-
- in place of
- -al
- adjective forming suffix, pertaining to, located in
- -ase
- names of enzymes
- -asia, -asis
- noun forming suffix, state, condition
- -ema
- noun forming, state, condition
- -esis
- noun forming, state, condition, procedure
- -etic
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adjective forming, often from nouns ending in -esis,
pertaining to - -ics, -tics
- noun forming, indicates particular science or study
- -ism
- noun forming, state, condition, quality
- -ismus
- noun forming, state, condition, muscular spasm
- -old, -ode, -id
- noun and adjective forming, indicating a particular shape, form, or resemblance
- oma
- noun forming, usually tumor, occasionally disease
- -ose
- adjective forming, used to form names of chemical substances, full of, resembling
- -ous
- adjective forming, pertaining to, characterized by, full of
- -us
- noun forming, condition, person (sometimes malformed fetus)
- -ize
- greek derived suffix meaning to make, become, cause to be, subject to
- coli-
- refers to colon bacillus E. coli
- cyst-
- refers to urinary bladder
- cholecyst-
- refers to gallbladder
- acr-
- highest point, extremities
- ambly-
- dull, faint
- carcin-
- carcinoma, cancer
- -cel-
- hernia, tumor, swelling
- cheir-, chir-
- hand
- chol(e)-
- bile, gall
- col(i)-, colon-
- colon
- cyan-
- blue
- cyst(i)-, -cystis
- bladder, cyst
- diplo-
- double, twin
- enter-
- small intestine
- erg-
- action, work
- gastr-
- stomach
- hem-, hemat-, -em-
- blood
- hepar-, hepat-
- liver
- lip-
- fat
- macr-
- abnormally large or long
- mega-, megal-
- abnormally large or long
- melan-
- dark, black
- micr-
- abnormally small
- nyct-
- night
- odyn-
- pain
- onc-
- tumor
- pachy-
- thick
- pseud
- false
- py-
- pus
- sarc-
- flesh, soft tissue
- spasm-
- spasm, involuntary muscle contraction
- splen-
- spleen
- stom-, stomat-
- mouth, opening