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MCC Med Term Final
MCC Med Term Units 1 & 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Origin of medical terminology | Greek and Latin |
| Hippocrates | Greek physician, Father of Medicine, est. early ethical standards |
| Aristotle | diseases such as glaucoma, blindness, etc |
| Hellenistic age | warlike descriptive terms (xiphoid = sword; thyroid = shield; thorax = breastplate) |
| Importance of understanding medical terminology | interpretation of data, communication and functioning |
| epi | upon, over |
| extra | outside |
| hydro | water |
| in | not |
| macro | large |
| ortho | straight |
| per | through |
| peri | around |
| poly | many |
| post | after, behind |
| pre | before |
| pro | in front of, before |
| pseudo | false |
| retro | behind, backward |
| semi | half |
| sub | under, beneath |
| supra/super | above, over, excess |
| sym/syn | together |
| trans | across |
| ultra | beyond |
| uni | one |
| a/an | without |
| ab | away |
| ad | to, towards |
| ante | front, before |
| anti | against |
| bi | two |
| co/con | with, together, joined |
| contra | opposite |
| dys/di | bad, difficult |
| ecto | outside |
| hemi | half |
| infra | below |
| inter | between |
| intra | within |
| dia | through, across |
| endo | within, inward |
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | vessel |
| anthema | skin eruption (specified) |
| antr/o | sinus, cavity |
| blast/o | sprout, young cell |
| bronch/o | windpipe, tube |
| burs/o | sac |
| carc/o | cancer |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cephal/o | head |
| chol/o | gall, bile |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| cost/o | rib |
| crani/o | skull |
| cyst/o | sac, bladder |
| cyt | cell |
| dactyl/o | finger, toe |
| enter/o | intestine |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| hem/o; hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| hyster/o | womb, uterus |
| idio | one's own |
| leuk/o | white |
| lip/o | fat |
| lith/o | stone |
| lys/o | dissolution |
| megal/o | large |
| menin/o | membrane |
| metr/o | uterus |
| my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | marrow |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| neur/o | nerve |
| oophor/o | ovary |
| oste/o | bone |
| path/o | disease |
| pneum/o | lung, air |
| pyel/o | renal pelvis |
| py/o | pus |
| radi/o | ray |
| salping/o | fallopian tube |
| scler/o | hardening |
| splen/o | spleen |
| spondyl/o | vertebra |
| viscer/o | viscera; organ |
| algia | pain |
| cele | hernia, protrusion |
| centesis | surgical puncture |
| ectasis | dilation |
| ectomy | to cut out; surgically remove |
| emia | blood condition |
| genesis | beginning, origin |
| gram | record/writing |
| graph | instrument for recording |
| iasis | abnormal condition |
| itis | inflammation |
| malacia | softening |
| oid | like, resembling |
| oma | tumor |
| osis | increase, condition, morbid process |
| ostomy | create an opening |
| penia | deficiency, decrease |
| plasty | surgical repair |
| ptosis | to droop; falling |
| rrhagia | sudden flow |
| rrhaphy | suture |
| rrhexis | rupture |
| scopy | visual examination (with instrument) |
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