Medical Terminology Chapter 1
Terms
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- -ptosis
- drooping
- -rrhage
- excessive, abnormal flow
- -rrhea
- discharge, flow
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -stenosis
- narrowing
- -therapy
- treatment
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- -centesis
- puncture to withdraw fliud
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- -ostomy
- cutting into
- -pexy
- surgical fixation
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -gram
- record or picture
- -graphy
- instrument for recording
- -meter
- instrument for measuring
- -metry
- process of measuring
- -plasia
- development, growth
- -plasm
- formation, development
- -scope
- instrument for viewing
- -scopy
- process of visually examing
- -graph
- process of recording
- aden/o
- gland
- carcin/0
- cancer
- cardi/o
- heart
- chem/o
- chemical
- cis/o
- to cut
- dermat/o
- skin
- enter/o
- small intestine
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gynec/o
- female
- path/o
- disease
- pulmon/o
- lung
- rhin/o
- nose
- ur/o
- urine
- hetero-
- different
- homo-
- same
- hyper-
- over, above
- hypo-
- under, below
- infra-
- under, beneath, below
- inter-
- among, between
- intra-
- within, inside
- macro-
- large
- micro-
- small
- neo-
- new
- pan-
- all
- para-
- beside, beyond, near
- per-
- through
- peri-
- around
- post-
- after
- pre-
- before, in front of
- pseudo-
- false
- retro-
- backward, behind
- hemat/o
- blood
- hydr/o
- water
- immun/o
- immune
- laryng/o
- voice box
- morph/o
- shape
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- ot/o
- ear
- sub-
- below, under
- super-
- above, excess
- supra-
- above
- tachy-
- rapid, fast
- trans-
- through, across
- ultra-
- beyond, excess
- bi-
- two
- hemi-
- half
- mono-
- one
- nulli-
- none
- poly-
- many
- quad-
- four
- semi-
- partial half
- tri-
- three
- uni-
- one
- -algia
- pain
- -cele
- hernia, protrusion
- -cise
- cut
- -cyte
- cell
- -dynia
- pain
- -ectasis
- dialation
- -gen
- that which produces
- -genesis
- produces, generates
- -genic
- producing, produced by
- -ia
- state, condition
- -iasis
- abnormal condition
- -ism
- state of
- -itis
- inflammation
- -logist
- one who studies
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
- destruction
- -malacia
- abnormal softening
- -megaly
- enlargement, large
- -oma
- tumor, mass
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- -pathy
- disease