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Med Term Ch 1
Dooley's Med Term Ch1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cyan/o | blue |
| albin/o | white |
| leuk/o | white |
| melan/o | black |
| erythr/o | red |
| purpur/o | purple |
| poli/o | gray |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| -um | noun ending |
| -osis | abnormal condition or disease |
| -algia | pain & suffering |
| -dynia | pain |
| -malacia | abnormal softening |
| -megaly | abnormal enlargement |
| -necrosis | tissue death |
| -sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
| -stenosis | abnormal narrowing |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid for diagnostic purposes |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| -graphy | process of recording a picture or record |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth, as in abnormal excessive fluid discharge or bleeding |
| -rrhaphy | to suture or stitch |
| -rrhea | abnormal flow or discharge of most body fluids; does not refer to the flow of blood |
| -rrhexis | to ruture |
| pre- | before |
| peri- | surrounding |
| post- | after |
| rhin/o | nose |
| laryng/o | larynx |
| ot/o | ear |
| arteri/o | artery |
| ather/o | plaque or fatty substance |
| arthr/o | joint |
| ileum | part of the small intestine |
| ilium | part of the hip boen |
| laceration | jagged cut |
| lesion | a change in tissue due to disease or injury |
| mucous | membranes that line body cavities |
| mucus | fluid secreted by mucous membranes |
| infection | invasion of the body by pathologic organisms |
| inflammation | localized response to injury or destruction of tissue |
| sign | evidence of disease that can be seen and measured |
| symptom | evidence of disease known only to the patient |
| diagnosis | identification of a disease/disorder |
| prognosis | prediction of a disease's outcome |
| acute | rapid onset, severe course, short duration |
| chronic | long duration; controllable but not curable |
| eponym | disease, procedure, structure named for the person who discoved it |
| acronym | word formed by using the initial letters from the major parts of a compound term |
| myc/o | fungus |
| myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
| my/o | muscle |
| -ologist | specialist |
| -ology | study of |
| -ostomy | surgically create an artificail opening |
| -otomy | surgical incision |
| palpation | to examine with the hands |
| palpitation | racing, pounding heart |
| prostate | male gland in the urinary system |
| prostrate | collapse with exhaustion |
| pyel/o- | renal pelvis |
| pyr/o | fire or fever |
| py/o | pus |
| supination | rotating the arm so that the palm is forward or upward |
| suppuration | formation or discharge of pus |
| suturing | closing a wound with stitches |
| ligation | binding or tying off blood vessels or ducts |
| triage | screening patients to determine their priority of need |
| trauma | injury |
| viral | referring to a virus |
| virile | possessing masculine traits |
| ab- | away from normal |
| ad | toward or in the direction of |
| dys- | difficult |
| eu- | normal |
| hyper- | increased or excessive |
| hypo- | decreased or deficient |
| inter- | between or among |
| intra- | within or inside |
| sub- | under, below |
| supra- | above or excessive |
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