Medical Terminology pgs. 15-21
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- Centesis
- Surgical puncture
- Clasis
- surgical fracture
- Desis
-
fixation
(bone or joint) - ectomy
- excision
- lysis
- seperation
- pexy
-
fixation
(organ) - plasty
- surgical repair
- rrhaphy
- suture
- stomy
-
forming of an opening
(mouth) - tomy
- incision
- tripsy
- crushing
- gram
- recording
- graph
- instrument for recording
- graphy
- process of recording
- meter
- intrument for measuring
- metry
- act of measuring
- scope
- instrument for examining
- scopy
- visual examination
- algia
-
pain
(along a nerve) - dynia
-
pain
(ear) - cele
- hernia
- ectasis
- dialation
- edema
- swelling
- emesis
- vomitting
- emia
- blood condition
- gen
- forming
- genesis
- forming
- iasis
-
abnormal condition
(produced by something specific) - lith
- stone
- malacia
- softening
- megaly
- enlargement
- oma
- tumor
- osis
-
abnormal condition
(used primarily with blood cells) - pathy
- disease
- penia
- decrease
- phagia
- swallowing
- phasia
- speech
- phobia
- fear
- plasia
- formation
- plasm
- formation
- plegia
- paralysis
- rrhage
- bursting(of)
- rrhagia
- busting (of)
- rrhea
- discharge
- rrhexis
- rupture
- spasm
- involuntary contraction
- stenosis
- narrowing
- toxic
- poison
- trophy
- nourishment
- intra
- within
- -a
- without
- hyper
- excessive
- ac
- pertaining to
- al
- pertaining to
- ar
- pertaining to
- ary
- pertaining to
- eal
- pertaining to
- ic
- pertaining to
- ical
- pertaining to
- ile
- pertaining to
- ior
- pertaining
- ous
- pertaining to
- tic
- pertaining to
- esis
- condition
- ia
- condition
- ism
- condition
- iatry
- specialist
- ician
- specialist
- ist
- specialist
- icle
- small
- ole
- small
- ule
- small
- hemat/o
- blood
- cephal/o
- head
- cardi/o
- heart
- mast/o
- breast
- phleb/o
- vein
- colon/o
- colon
- arthr/o
- joints
- thorac/o
- chest
- encephal/o
- brain