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medical terminology
Question | Answer |
---|---|
aden/o | gland |
adip/o | fat |
albino/o | white |
carcin/o | cancer |
chlor/o | green |
chrom/o | colour |
chem/o | chemical; drug |
crypt/o | hidden |
cry/o | cold |
cutane/o | skin |
derm/o | skin |
eschar/o | scab |
hidr/o | sweat |
ichthy/o | dry scaly |
kerat/o | horny tissue, hard |
lip/o | fat |
lipid/o | fat |
mamm/o | breast |
mast/o | breast |
melan/o | black |
myco/o | fungus |
necr/o | death, necrosis |
nid/o | nest |
onc/o | tumour |
onych/o | nail |
pedicul/o | lice |
pil/o | hair |
py/o | pus |
rhytid/o | wrinkle |
scler/o | hardening |
seb/o | sebum, sebaceous |
squam/o | scale |
steat/o | fat |
sudor/o | sweat |
thel/o | nipple |
tox/o | poison |
trich/o | hair |
ungu/o | nail |
xen/o | foreign, strange |
xer/o | dry |
-al | pertaining to |
-cele | hernia, swelling |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
-esis | condition |
-graft | transplantation |
-ia | condition |
-ic | pertaining to |
-is | noun ending |
-ism | condition |
-itis | inflammation |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-malacia | softening |
-oma | tumour |
-osis | abnormal condition |
-ous | pertaining to |
-pathy | disease |
-penia | decrease, deficiency |
-phoresis | carrying, transmission |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-poiesis | formation, production |
-rrhagia | bursting forth |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | discharge, flow |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-therapy | treatment |
a, an- | without, not |
dia- | through, across |
epi- | above, upon |
hetero- | different |
homo- | same |
hyper- | excessive, above normal |
pachy- | thick |
peri- | around |
sub- | under, below |