Medical Terminology (suffixes, prefixes, and Abbrevs)
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| -ar | pertaining to
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| -ation | process (of)
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| -blast | embryonic cell
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| -cyte | cell
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| -edema | swelling
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -gen | forming, producing, origin
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| -genesis | forming, producing, origin
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | decrease, deficiency
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| -phage | swallowing, eating
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| -phagia | swallowing, eating
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| -phil | attraction for
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| -philia | attraction for
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| -phobia | fear
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| -phoresis | carrying, transmission
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| -globin | protein
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| -graft | transplantation
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -ine | pertaining to
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| -logy | study of
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| -lysis | separation, desctruction, loosening
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| -oid | resembling
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| -oma | tumour
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| -osis | abnormal condition, increase
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| -phylaxis | protection
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| -plasia | formation, growth
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| -plasm | formation, growth
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| -poiesis | formation, production
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| -rrhagia | bursting forth (of)
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| -stasis | standing still
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| -tic | pertaining to
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| -toxic | pertaining to poison
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| a-, an- | without, not
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| allo- | other, differing from the normal
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| ana- | against, up, back
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| aniso- | unequal, dissimilar
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| auto- | self, own
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| hypo- | under, below, deficient
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| im- | not
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| iso- | same equal
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| macro- | large
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| micro- | small
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| mono- | one
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| poly- | many, much
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| A, B, AB, O | Blood types in ABO blood group
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| AB, Ab, ab | antibody, abortion
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| AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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| ALL | acute lymphocytic leukemia
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| AML | acute myelogenous leukemia
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| APC | antigen-presenting cell
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| APTT | activated partial thromboplastin time
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| baso | basophil
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| BMT | bone marrow transplant
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| CBC | complete blood count
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| CLL | chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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| CML | chronic myelogenous leukemia
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| DIC | disseminated intravascular coagulation
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| diff | differential count (white blood cells)
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| DVT | deep vein thrombosis; deep venous thrombosis
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| EBV | Epstein-Barr virus
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| eos | eosinophil
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| ESR | erythrocyte sedimentation rate
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| GVHD | graft-versus-host disease
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| GVHR | graft-versus-host reaction
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| Hb, Hgb | hemoglobin
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| HDN | hemolytic disease of the newborn
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| HIV | human immunodeficiency virus
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| lgs | immunoglobulins
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| lymphos | lymphocytes
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| MNL | mononuclear leukocytes
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| NK cell | natural killer cell
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| PA | pernicious anemia
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| PCP | Pneumocystis pneumonia; primary care physician
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| PMN | polymorphonuclear
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| PMNL, poly | polymorphonuclear leukocyte
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| PT | prothrombin time, physical therapy
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| PTT | partial thromboplastin time
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| RA | right atrium, rheumatoid arthritis
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| RBC, rbc | red blood cell
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| segs | segmented neutrophils
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| SLE | systemic lupus erythematosus
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| WBC, wbc | white blood cell
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| PCV | packed cell volume
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