A LPN's 350

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Thromb-

Clot, Lump

🗑

ab-

away from, not

🗑

-plegia

paralysis

🗑

ante-

before

🗑

thel-

nipple

🗑

ex-

out, away from

🗑

lien-

spleen

🗑

tumor

swelling

🗑

vestibule-

enterance

🗑

puer-

child

🗑

sarc-

flesh

🗑

proli-

offspring

🗑

macro-

large

🗑

lal-

speech

🗑

intra-

within

🗑

inter-

between

🗑

infra-

beneath

🗑

cyro-

cold

🗑

mal-

bad

🗑

glom-

ball

🗑

tens-

stretch

🗑

spas-

pull, draw

🗑

pharmac-

drugstore

🗑

lumbo-

loins, the right and left regions of the middle section of the abdomen. Lumbar regions

🗑

ventr-

front

🗑

vert-

turn

🗑

ambi-

both

🗑

amphi-

around, on both sides

🗑

brachy-

short

🗑

capit-

head

🗑

cau-

burn

🗑

-clas

break

🗑

duct-

tube

🗑

fiss-

split

🗑

ger-

old

🗑

heter-

other

🗑

infer-

under

🗑

hom-

same

🗑

olfac-

smell

🗑

orth-

straight

🗑

gyn-

female

🗑

pachy-

thick

🗑

phrag-

fence

🗑

poster-

back part

🗑

cata-

down

🗑

platy-

flat

🗑

pseud-

false

🗑

schiz-

split

🗑

eu-

good, normal

🗑

proxim-

nearest

🗑

scol-

curved

🗑

apo-

away from

🗑

di-

twice, two

🗑

dia-

through

🗑

eury-

broad, wide

🗑

pect-

chest

🗑

necr-

dead

🗑

mi-

less

🗑

morph-

form

🗑

dis-

apart

🗑

fac-

make or do

🗑

lept-

slender

🗑

lymph-

watery fluid

🗑

mata-

beyond

🗑

-rrhag

burst forth

🗑

sta-

stand

🗑

ton-

stretch

🗑

volv-

to roll

🗑

splanchn-

internal organs

🗑

-rrhe

flow

🗑

med-

middle

🗑

xer-

dry

🗑

per-

throughout

🗑

blast-

bud, cell

🗑

cost-

rib

🗑

gram-

record

🗑

acro-

extremities

🗑

-rhexis

break, burst

🗑

carcin-

cancer

🗑

penia-

decrease

🗑

gen-

original, production

🗑

burso-

sac

🗑

ovar-

egg

🗑

-centesis

puncture

🗑

oto-

ear

🗑

bili-

bile

🗑

squam-

scale(s)

🗑

mening-

membrane

🗑

cec-

blind,passage

🗑

macul-

spot

🗑

-pexy

suspenion

🗑

onco-

tumor

🗑

or-

mouth

🗑

sub-

under

🗑

spiro-

coil

🗑

lacrim-

tear

🗑

viscero-

organ

🗑

lact-

milk

🗑

onych-

nail, claw

🗑

thorac-

chest

🗑

pyle-

gate, opening

🗑

vesic-

bladder

🗑

sphenic-

wedge

🗑

myel-

marrow, spinal cord

🗑

ant-

against

🗑

myco-

fungus

🗑

hallux

great toe

🗑

physio-

nature

🗑

bucco-

cheek

🗑

palpebr-

eye lid

🗑

-plasia

developement

🗑

rug-

wrinkle, fold, crease

🗑

aur-

ear

🗑

acousti-

hearing

🗑

colpo-

hollow, vagina

🗑

phon-

voice, sound

🗑

leio-

smooth

🗑

cor-

heart

🗑

ren-

kidney

🗑

orchi-

testis

🗑

encephal-

brain

🗑

thalm-

inner chamber

🗑

plexus-

braid

🗑

cilia-

eye lash

🗑

dendr-

tree, branching

🗑

phleb-

vein

🗑

pilo-

hair

🗑

histo-

tissue

🗑

stoma-

mouth

🗑

tympan-

ear drum

🗑

umbilic-

navel

🗑

salpingo-

tube

🗑

gastr-

stomach

🗑

cardi-

heart

🗑

megal-

enlarge

🗑

itis-

inflammation

🗑

dermat-

skin

🗑

plast-

surgical repir

🗑

cerebr-

brain

🗑

path-

disease

🗑

-ectomy

surgical removal

🗑

enter-

intestines

🗑

osis-

any condition

🗑

otomy-

incision, cut into

🗑

aden-

gland

🗑

angi-

vessle

🗑

-oma

tumor

🗑

nephr-

kidney

🗑

hepat-

liver

🗑

arthr-

joint

🗑

blephar-

eye lid

🗑

ologist-

specialist

🗑

rhin-

nose

🗑

gingiv-

gums

🗑

-malacia

soft

🗑

-ology

study of

🗑

spasm

involuntary contraction

🗑

-algia

pain

🗑

crani-

skull

🗑

end/o

inside, within

🗑

hemi-

half

🗑

oid-

🗑

hyper-

above, more than normal

🗑

cyst-

sac

🗑

chole-

bile

🗑

hypo-

observe

🗑

hyster-

uterus

🗑

ostomy-

create an opening

🗑

para-

bedside or beyond

🗑

lysis-

loosening, destruction

🗑

cervic-

neck

🗑

chondr-

cartilage

🗑

cyan-

blue

🗑

hem/hemat-

blood

🗑

ost-

bone

🗑

psycho-

mind

🗑

lip/o

fat

🗑

my-

muscle

🗑

lith-

stone

🗑

ophthalm-

eye

🗑

proct-

anus

🗑

retro-

backwards, past

🗑

trip-

rub, friction

🗑

strept-

twist

🗑

desis-

binding

🗑

mani-

madness

🗑

glosso-

tongue

🗑

trophy-

developement

🗑

supra-

above

🗑

ptosis-

fallig, drooping

🗑

dyn-

pain

🗑

mast-

breast

🗑

rraphy-

suture

🗑

dent-

teeth

🗑

cephal-

head

🗑

auto-

self

🗑

epi-

upon

🗑

hydro-

water

🗑

lobo-

section

🗑

emesis-

vomiting

🗑

contra-

against, counter

🗑

iasis-

condition, formation

🗑

trans-

through, across, beyond

🗑

brady-

slow

🗑

ectasis-

expantion

🗑

cyt-

cell

🗑

odont-

tooth

🗑

leuk-

white

🗑

esthesia-

sensation

🗑

cantho-

angle at the end of the eyelid

🗑

steno-

narrow, contracted

🗑

cheil-

lip

🗑

cele-

hernia, tumor, swelling

🗑

benign

mild, not cancerous

🗑

semen

seed

🗑

celio-

abdomen

🗑

erythro-

red

🗑

vaso-

vessle

🗑

melan-

black

🗑

cauda-

tail

🗑

lingua-

tongue

🗑

myring-

eardrum

🗑

spondyl-

spinal column

🗑

tarso-

frame work of the eyelid

🗑

cheir-

hand

🗑

calc-

heel, stone

🗑

cine-

move

🗑

digit-

finger, toe

🗑

dors-

back

🗑

gangli-

swelling

🗑

gemin-

twin, double

🗑

grad-

walk, take steps

🗑

gran-

grain, particle

🗑

labi-

lip

🗑

micr-

small

🗑

peps-

digest

🗑

pleur-

chest cavity, rib or side

🗑

mamm-

breast

🗑

colla-

glue

🗑

later-

side

🗑

rachi-

spinal colum

🗑

phob-

fear

🗑

phot-

light

🗑

dys-

bad, out of order

🗑

cut-

skin

🗑

en-

🗑

peri-

about, around

🗑

pro-

in front of before

🗑

mechano-

machine

🗑

dynam-

power

🗑

osmo-

odor

🗑

traumat-

wound

🗑

trich

hair

🗑

maxill-

upper jaw bone

🗑

an/a

without, not

🗑

phak-

lens

🗑

pre-

infront of, before

🗑

strict-

drawn tight

🗑

turbin-

shaped like a top

🗑

ameb-

change

🗑

semi-

half

🗑

neo-

new

🗑

hormone

excite

🗑

therm-

heat

🗑

syn/sym

together

🗑

vuls-

twitch,or pull

🗑

post-

after

🗑

metr-

uteris

🗑

tegument-

covering, skin

🗑

pan-

all

🗑

poly-

many

🗑

ramus-

branch

🗑

neuro-

nerve

🗑

arter-

artery

🗑

appendic-

appendix

🗑

thyro-

thyroid

🗑

splen-

spleen

🗑

ovario-

ovary

🗑

adreno-

adrenal gland

🗑

basi-

base

🗑

pelvis-

pelvis

🗑

vena-

vein

🗑

urethra-

urethra, a small tubular structure extending the lenghth of the penis that transports urine from the bladder, and seman when ejaculated to the outside of the body (urethritis, inflammation of the urethra)

🗑

utero-

uterus

🗑

bronch-

bronch, (left and right side: bronchi)

🗑

pharyng-

pharynx, passageway for air from nasal cavity to larynx and food from mouth to esophagus. Serves both the respiratoty and digestive systms; the throat

🗑

duodeno-

duodenum

🗑

ureter-

ureter, tube that carries urine from the kidney

🗑

sacro-

sacrum, located below the lumbar vertebrea, is the fourth segment of the spinal column. This single, triangular-shape bone is a result of the fusion of the five individual sacral bones of the child.

🗑

laryng-

larynx,the enlarged upper end of the trachea below the root of the tongue; the voice box

🗑

col-

colon

🗑

esophag-

esophagus, a muscle canal 24cm long, extending from the pharynx to the stomach

🗑

bi-

two

🗑

tri-

three

🗑

ile-

ileum, lowest part of the intestine

🗑

ili-

ilium, hip bone

🗑

lig-

ligament

🗑

therap-

therapy

🗑

helio-

sun

🗑

astr-

star-shaped

🗑

-asthenia

weakness

🗑

fascia-

sheet, band

🗑

iso-

equal

🗑

tarso-

ankle

🗑

-tope

place

🗑

pod-

foot

🗑

malign-

bad, harmful

🗑

adnexa-

ties, connection

🗑

ocul-

eye

🗑

lapr-

abdominal wall

🗑

dacry-

tear

🗑

ment-

mind

🗑

part-

labor, bring forth

🗑

sclera-

hard

🗑

somato-

body

🗑

trachel-

neck

🗑

sinus-

hollow space

🗑

hypno-

sleep

🗑

sept-

wall, fence

🗑

scirr-

hard

🗑

antr-

cavity, chamber

🗑

-crine

to secrete

🗑

dura-

hard

🗑

pneum-

lung, air

🗑

phage-

to eat

🗑

phren-

friend

🗑

corne-

horny

🗑

plak-

plate

🗑

iris-

rainbow

🗑

kerat-

horny

🗑

pulmo-

lung

🗑

ptyal

saliva

🗑

alveol-

cavity

🗑

oophor-

ovary

🗑

oment-

covering

🗑

sedat-

quiet, calm

🗑

furca-

fork-shaped

🗑

radic-

root

🗑

radi-

ray

🗑

fistul-

a pipe, narrow passage

🗑

edema-

swelling

🗑

dactyl

finger, toe

🗑

metabol-

change

🗑

pariet

wall

🗑

ependym-

wrapping

🗑

gravid-

pregnant

🗑

aer-

air

🗑

glyco-

sweet

🗑

-scop

observe

🗑

sacro-

sacrum

🗑

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