Medical Terminology - Latin prefix/suffix
Terms
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- kerato-
- horny
- leuko-
- white
- lipo-
- fat
- maculo-
- stain
- melano-
- black
- myco-
- fungus
- onycho-
- nail
- papulo-
- pimple
- pilo-
- hair
- pyo-
- pus
- sclero-
- hard
- seb-
- oil
- squamo-
- scale-like
- steato-
- fat
- tricho-
- hair
- xero-
- dry
- vesico-
- blister
- ventr-
- belly
- viscero-
- organ
- adipo-
- fat
- caus-
- burn
- chromo-
- color
- cryo-
- cold
- cyano-
- blue
- dermato- or dermo-
- skin
- diaphoro-
- profuse sweating
- erythemo-
- flush
- erythemato-
- redness
- hidro-
- sweat
- histo-
- tissue
- ichthy-
- dry
- myo-
- muscle
- -tome
- instrument used to cut
- -blast
- immature
- -clasia
- to surgically break
- -desis
- fuse
- -kinesia
- movement
- -malacia
- softening
- -physis
- to grow
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -porosis
- porous
- -scopy
- visually examine
- -atrophy
- development
- -centesis
- to withdrawl fluid
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- -ostomy
- surgically create an opening
- -otomy
- cutting into
- -pexy
- surgical fixation
- -rrhaphy
- suture
- -gram
- record or picture
- -metry
- process of measuring
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -phasia
- speech
- -penia
- deficiency
- -phoria
- feeling
- -plasia
- growth
- -plasm
- formation
- -plegia
- paralysis
- -stenosis
- narrowing
- -stasis
- stopping
- -stalsis
- contraction
- -sis
- condition
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -rrhea
- flow
- -rrhage
- excessive
- -ptosis
- drooping
- -pnea
- breathing
- -lith
- stone
- -lysis
- destruction
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -oma
- tumor
- -osis
- abnormal condition
- -paresis
- weakness
- -algia
- pain
- -cele
- hernia
- -coccus
- berry-shaped
- -cyte
- cell
- -dynia
- pain
- -ectasis
- enlargement
- -ectopia
- displacement
- -emia
- condition of blood
- -genic
- producing
- -iasis
- abnormal condition
- ankylo-
- crooked/bent
- kypho-
- crooked/bent
- steno-
- narrow
- brachy-
- short
- ortho-
- straight
- edem-
- swelling
- ecto-
- outside
- dys-
- painful
- dent-
- tooth
- cirrho-
- yellow
- erythro-
- red
- encephalo-
- brain
- endo-
- inside/within
- entero-
- intestine
- epi-
- above/upper
- genu-
- knee
- pan-
- all
- para-
- beside
- peri-
- around
- phleb-
- vein
- pleur-
- lung
- phrenic
- diaphram
- pneumo-
- lung
- poly-
- many
- post-
- behind
- pre-
- before
- pro-
- forward
- procto-
- rectum
- pseudo-
- false
- pyelo-
- kidney
- retro-
- backward
- rhin-
- nose
- salpingo-
- tube
- semin-
- seed
- sub-
- below
- super- or supra-
- above
- stric-
- narrowing
- tachy-
- rapid
- thel-
- nipple
- therm-
- heat
- thrombo-
- clot
- trans-
- across
- vas-
- vessel
- vesic-
- bladder or sac
- -gen
- beginning, producing
- -pathy
- disease
- -phagia
- eating/swallowing
- -crine
- secrete within
- -dactyl
- finger/toe
- -duct
- opening
- -olysis
- breakdown
- -graph
- picture
- prone position
- lying face down
- lithotomy position
- a supine position with buttocks at the end of the operating table, the hips and knees being fully flexed with feet strapped in position.
- Babinski sign
- negative plantar response
- papilledema
- edema of optic disk due to increased cranial pressure
- nystagmus
- involuntary rhythmic movement of the eyeballs
- Romberg sign
- is positive when unsteadiness occurs upon closing eyes while standing; alternating opening and closing eyes in this position
- Homans sign
- pain in calf when ankle is gently dorsiflexed; indicates DVT
- Natrecor
- given for CHF and SOB; vasodilator
- malaise
- general discomfort or uneasiness feeling
- anorexia
- decreased appetite
- dysmenorrhea
- painful menstruation
- dyspareunia
- painful sex
- menorrhagia
- hypermenorrhea; prolonged or profuse menses
- menometrorrhagia
- excessive bleeding during menses or irregular between menses
- achalasia
- failure to relax
- atelectasis
- decreased air in lung due to loss of lung volume.
- telangiectasia
- lesion on the skin from dilated capillary
- introitus
- entrance into a canal
- blepharoplasty
- correct of eyelid defect
- chondromalacia patellae
- note spelling
- hematochezia
- passage of bloody stool
- melena
- passage of dark-colored stool
- oligohydramnios
- insufficient amniotic fluid