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HLTH125 Ch.4
diseases and disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| iatr(o) | physician or treatment |
| idi(o) | individual |
| nos(o) | disease |
| lith(o) | stone or calculus |
| -cele | hernia |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| -ia | condition |
| -iasis | condition |
| -mania | excessive preoccupation |
| -maniac | a person who shows excessive preoccupation |
| -osis | condition |
| -phobia | abnormal fear |
| -ptosis | prolapse (sagging) |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ive | pertaining to |
| -tic | pertaining to |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -eum | membrane |
| -ium | membrane |
| -ia | condition or theory |
| -ism | condition or theory |
| -iac | one who suffers |
| -opia | vision |
| -ose | sugar |
| -ous | pertaining to or characterized by |
| -y | state or condition |
| gen(o) | beginning, origin |
| -gen | that which generates |
| -genic | produced by or in |
| -genesis | producing or forming |
| leps(o) | seizure |
| log(o) | knowledge or words |
| -lysin | that which destroys |
| -lysis | process of destroying |
| -lytic | capable of destroying |
| megal(o) | large, enlarged |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| metr(o) | means measure, uterine tissue |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| -metry | process of measuring |
| phag(o) | means eat, ingest |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -phagic | eating, swallowing |
| -phagy | eating, swallowing |
| phas(0) | speech |
| -phasia | speech |
| plas(0) | means formation, development |
| -plasia | means formation, development |
| -plasma | substance of cells |
| pleg(0) | means paralysis |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| schis(o), shiz(o), schist(o) | mean split, cleft |
| -schisis | mean split, cleft |
| scler(o) | means hard |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| scop(o) | means to examine, to view |
| -scope | instrument used fro viewing |
| -scopy | process of visually examining |
| troph(o) | means nutrition |
| -trophy, -trophic | means nutrition |
| chor(o) | green |
| erythro | red |
| melano | black |
| xantho | yellow |
| histo | tissue |
| lacto | milk |
| sepso | infection |
| septi | infection |
| septo | infection |
| myco | fungus |
| staphylo | grapelike cluster; uvula |
| strepto | twisted |
| iatrogenic disorder | unfavorable response to medical treatment |
| nosocomial infections | hospital acquired infections |
| kleptomaina | uncontrollable and recurrent urge to steal |
| hysteria | disturbed condition of the uterus |
| adenopathy | enlargement of a gland |
| hemolysin | substance that causes hemolysis |
| hemolyze | to destroy red blood cells and cause them to release hemoglobin |
| hemolysis | destruction of red blood cells |
| carcinogenesis | production or origin of cancer |
| biopsy | examination of tissue from the living body |
| virulance | the power of a microorganism to cause disease |
| antiseptic | inhibits growth of microorganisms, without killing them |
| bacteriostatic | means inhibiting the growth of bacteria |
| bacterialcidal | means killing bacteria |
| streptococci | common way of saying steptococcalpharyingitis, step throat |
| botulism | food poisoning caused by a toxin, clostridium botulinum |
| fungi | microorganisms that feed by absorbing organic molecules from their surroundings |
| protozoa | simplest organism of the animal kingdom |
| malaria and trichomoniasis | caused by protozoa |
| trichonmonaisis | human protozoal infection, std |
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