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Medical Terminology More GI system
Question | Answer |
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-extasis, -ectasia | stretching, dilation |
-emesis | vomiting |
-lysis | destruction, breakdown |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phagia | eating swallowing |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-pstosis | drooping; sagging; protruding |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage -rrhagia | bursting forth |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-spasm | involuntary contraction of muscles |
-stasis | stopping; contrilling |
-stenosis | tightening, stricture, narrowing |
-tresia | opening |