Quick and Easy MT Ch 2 Writing Terms with Suffixes and Combining Forms
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| -er | one who
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| -ist | one who
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| -iatrician | practitioner
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| -logist | one who studies, specialist
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| -ac | pertaining to
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| -al | pertaining to
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| -ic | pertaining to
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| -logic | pertaining to
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| -logical | pertaining to
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| -iatrics | medical profession or treatment
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| -iatry | medical profession or treatment
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| -logy | study or science of
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| cardi/o | heart
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| crin/o | to secrete
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| dermat/o | skin
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| esthesi/o | feeling or sensation
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| gastro/o | stomach
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| enter/o | intestines, small intestine
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| ger/a | elderly
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| ger/o | elderly
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| geront/o | elderly
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| gynec/o | female
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| immun/o | immune
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| ne/o | new
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| nat/o | birth
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| neur/o | nerve
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| obstetr/o | midwife
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| onc/o | tumor
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| ophthalm/o | eye
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| orth/o | straight
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| ped/o | child, sometimes foot
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| ot/o | ear
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| laryng/o | larynx
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| path/o | disease
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| psych/o | mind
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| radi/o | radiation (sometimes radius)
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| rheumat/o | rheumatism
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| rhin/o | nose
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| ur/o | urinary tract (sometimes urine)
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| -centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid
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| -ectomy | excision - surgical removal or cutting out
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| -lysis | process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
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| -pexy | surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)
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| -plasty | surgical repair
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| -rrhaphy | suture (uniting a wound by stitches)
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| -scopy | visual examination with a lighted instrument
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| -stomy | formation of an opening
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| -tome | an instrument used for cutting
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| -tomy | incision (cutting into tissue)
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| -tripsy | surgical crushing
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| aden/o | gland
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| angi/o | vessel
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| append/o | appendix
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| appendic/o | appendix
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| bi/o | life or living
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| blephar/o | eyelid
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| cerebr/o | brain
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| encephal/o | brain
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| chir/o | hand
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| col/o | colon (or large intestine)
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| cutane/o | skin
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| derm/a | skin
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| dermat/o | skin
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| faci/o | face
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| hepat/o | liver
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| mamm/o | breast
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| mast/o | breast
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| muscul/o | muscle
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| my/o | muscle
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| myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord
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| oste/o | bone
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| pulm/o | lungs
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| pulmon/o | lungs
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| pneum/o | lungs, sometimes air or gas
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| pneumon/o | lungs
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| vas/o | vessel
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| tonsill/o | tonsil
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| trache/o | trachea (windpipe)
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| -algia | pain
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| -dynia | pain
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| -cele | hernia
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| -ectasia | dilation or stretching of a structure or part
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| -ectasis | dilation or stretching of a structure or part
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| -edema | swelling
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| -emesis | vomiting
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| -emia | condition of the blood
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| -ia | condition
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| -iasis | condition
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -lith | stone or calculus
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| -malacia | soft, softening
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| -mania | excessive preoccupation
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -oid | resembling
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| -oma | tumor
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| -osis | condition
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | deficiency
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| -phobia | abnormal fear
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| -ptosis | prolapse (sagging)
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| -rrhage | excessive bleeding (hemorrhage)
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| -rrhagia | excessive bleeding (hemorrhage)
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| -rrhea | flow or discharge
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -spasm | twitching, cramp
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| -stasis | stopping, controlling
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| -able | capable or, able to
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| -ible | capable or, able to
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| -an | pertaining to
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| -ar | pertaining to
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| -ary | pertaining to
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| -ive | pertaining to
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| -tic | pertaining to
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| -ase | enzyme
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| -eum | membrane
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| -ium | membrane
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| -iac | one who suffers
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| -opia | vision
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| -ose | sugar
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| -ous | pertaining to or characterized by
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| -y | state or condition
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| amyl/o | starch
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| glyc/o | sugar
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| hemat/o | blood
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| lact/o | milk
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| lip/o | fat
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| lith/o | stone
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| micro- | small
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| muc/o | mucus
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| prote/o | protein
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| protein/o | protein
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| pyr/o | fire
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