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Elena (HCP 102)
Term | Definition |
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-Algia | Pain, painful condition |
Dys- | Bad, difficult or painful |
-ectomy | surgical removal, cutting out, excision |
Hyper- | excessive, increased |
Hypo- | decreased, deficient |
-itis | inflammation |
-osis | abnormal condition, disease |
-ostomy | the surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface |
-otomy | cutting, surgical incision |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-rrhage | bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge |
-rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
-rrhea | flow or discharge |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
aden/o | gland |
adip/o | fat |
anter/o | before, front |
caud/o | lower part of the body. tail |
cephal\o | head |
cyt/o | cell |
exo- | out of, outside, away from |
end-, endo- | in, within, inside |
hist/o, histi/o | tissue |
-otogist | specialist |
-ology | the science or study of |
path/o, -pathy | disease, suffering, feeling, emotion |
plas/i, plas/o. -plasia | development, growth, formation |
poster/o | behind, toward the back |
-stasis, -static | control, maintenance of a constant level |