Medical Terminology: Digestive System
Terms
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adamantin/o
L* amel/- - enamel
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alve/o
alveol/o - alveolus (the socket of a tooth)
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appendic/-
append/- - appendix
- ather/o
- yellowish plaque, fatty substance
- bromat/o
- food
- bucc/o
- cheek
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cheil/o
L* labi/- - lip
- col/o
- colon
- dentin/o
- dentin
- duoden/o
- duodenum
- enter/o
- intestines (when used in combination with col/o refers to the small intestines)
- epiplo/o
- omentum
- esophag/o
- esophagus
- gastr/o
- stomach
- stomach/o
- stomach
- gnath/o
- jaw
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gloss/o
L* lingu/- - tongue
- hepat/o
- liver
- ile/o
- ileum
- jejun/o
- jejunum
- mandibul/o
- mandible (lower jaw)
- maxill/o
- maxilla
- ment/o
- chin
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odont/o
L* dent/- - tooth
- chyl/o
- chyle
- chym/o
- chyme (gastric pulp)
- coll/o
- glue, jelly, gelatin
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copr/o
scat/o
L* fec/-
L* fecal/-
L* sterc/-
L* stercor/- - feces
- acr/o
- extremities, height, tip
- all/o
- other, another, divergent, alternating
- anomal/o
- irregular
- anter/o
- before, front, in front
- a/tel/o
- incomplete
- dextr/-
- right
- dors/o
- back
- extern/o
- outside
- heter/o
- different, other
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hom/o
home/o
homoi/o - same, unchanging
- infer/o
- below
- intern/o
- inside
- mes/o
- middle
- opisth/o
- behind, back, recession
- poster/o
- behind
- proxim/-
- nearest
- sinistr/-
- left
- lev/-
- left, counter-clockwise
- super/o
- above
- tel/o
- distant, at a distance
- tele/
- end
- ventr/o
- front
- -clasis, -clas/ia
- act of breaking up
- -clysis
- irrigation (washing)
- -esthes/ia
- sensation, sensitivity
- -esthet/ic
- pertaining to sensation
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-phag/ia
-phagy - act of eating, swallowing, biting
- -poiesis
- formation
- poiet/ic
- pertaining to formation
- -schisis
- splitting
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-trips/y
-tripsis - act of crushing, rubbing; friction
- -os/tom/y
- act of creating an opening between / a passage between (two roots preceding)
- acroesthesia
- sensitivity of the extremities
- alveoclasia
- act of breaking up the alveolus
- anomalocyte
- irregularly-shaped cell
- caudocephalad
- moving in a direction from the tail to the head
- cheilophagia
- act of biting the lips (one's own)
- chylopoiesis
- formation of chyle
- coloclysis
- irrigation of the colon
- gnathoplasty
- surgical repair of the jaw
- heteroserotherapy
- treatment by means of different serums
- lithotripsy
- act of surgically crushing the stone
- maxillomandibular
- pertaining to the maxilla and the mandible
- mesarteritis
- inflammation of the midle of the artery
- odontoschisis
- splitting of the tooth
- posteroexternal
- pertaining to behind and outside
- sinistral
- pertaining to the left
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typhl/o
L* cec/- - cecum
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- rect/-
- rectum