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Medical Terminology-purple module
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -acusia | hearing |
| -acusis | hearing |
| -al | p2 |
| -algesia | pain |
| -algia | pain |
| -ary | p2 |
| -asthenia | weakness, debility |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -ceps | head |
| -cusia | hearing |
| -cusis | hearing |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectomy | excission, removal |
| -esthesia | feeling |
| -ferent | to carry |
| -glia | glue, neuroglial tissue |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -ia | condition |
| -ic | p2 |
| -ion | the act of |
| -ism | condition |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -kinesia | movement |
| -lalia | speech, babble |
| -lepsy | seizure |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -lucent | to shine, clear |
| -lysis | seperation, destruction |
| -malacia | softening |
| -mania | state of mental disorder |
| -meter | instrument for measuring |
| -metry | act of measuring |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -opaque | obscure |
| -opia | vision |
| -opsia | vision |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -ous | p2 |
| -paresis | partial paralysis |
| -pathy | disease |
| -pexy | fixation |
| -phasia | speech |
| -phobia | fear |
| -phoria | feeling |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -plexy | stroke |
| -ptosis | prolapse, downward |
| -rrhagia | bursting forth |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | discharge, flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument for examining |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -social | society |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
| -stomy | forming an opening |
| -taxia | order, coordination |
| -thymia | mind, emotion |
| -tic | p2 |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision |
| -tropia | turning |