Medical Terminology Lessons nine-ten
Terms
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~to secrete
~Example: endo/crine - glands that secrete - -ize
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~to do; to act in a specified way
~example: liquitize -
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~a process, action or condition
~example: liquidation
~~action or processcombination of ize, and ation/// example: crystalization - helio-
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~pun; light
~heliothempy-treatment by exposing to sun rays:
~heliosis-sunstroke - hypno-
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~sleep
~hypnotic-inducing sleep - sinus-
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~hollow space; cavity
~paranasal/sinus- air cavities in cranial bones communicating with hasal cavity - tarso-
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~ankle; instep
~tarsus-ankle regoin(bone) tarsuls - pod-
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~foot
~podiatrist- foot specialist - malign-
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~bad; harmful
~malignant- become progressively worse; resulting in death - ism
- ~example: organism
- -an; -ian
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~belonging to or having some relation to; on beliaving in
~example: Christian, thechnician - -ite
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~a part of the body or organ
~example: dendrite - -ance; - ancy
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~a state or organ
~examples: attendance - ment-
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~the mind
~mental- pertaining to the mind - part-
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~labor/bring forth/giving birth
~parturition-act or process of giving birth - scler(a)-
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~hard-white of eye
~sclorasis- a hardening at the tissue/ sclera- hard white tissue covering of eyeball - sept-
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~dividing wall or membrane
~septum- nasalsseptum partition seperating the naval cavities - post-
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~after/behind
~pastpartum- acurring after childbirth/pusterior- situated in the back part - pre-
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~before/in front of
~prenatal- occring before birth - pneum-
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~lungs; air
~pneumatic- pertaining to lungs or air - phage-
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~to eat, swallowing
~phagocyte- cells that eat microorganisms, other cells, or foriegn bodies
~phagocytosis- engulfing a microorganism