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Ites - Muc/o
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -ites | dropsy or drooping |
| -itis | inflamed or inflammation; glossitis- inflmation of the toungue |
| -ity | state of; sterility- a state of being barren |
| -ize | state of or acts like; cauterize- state of burning |
| jejuno- | to empty (2nd part of small intestine); jeujunum- to emby the second part of the samll intestine |
| junctiv/o- | joing or to join; conjuctivitis- inflamtion of the portion that joines together the eyelid and ocular parts |
| kali- | potassium; kalipenia- decrease of potasium |
| kary/o- | nucleus; karyokinesis- nucleus/movement or motion |
| kel/o- | scar; keloid- reseembling a scar, a rasied hard reddened scar |
| kerat/o- | cornea or horny; kerataomalacia- refering to the softening of the cornea |
| ket/o- | sour or acid; ketosis- conditon of being sour or acid |
| kil/o- | one thousand; kilogram- a thousand grams |
| kine- | movement or motion; kinetic- condition of movement |
| kraur/o- | dryness; kraurosis- condition of dryness |
| kypho- | hunchback; kyphosis- conditon of being hunchback |
| labio- | lip; labioma- lip tumor |
| labrynitho- | maze; labrynithitis- inflammation of maze |
| lacer/o- | to tear; lacerate- refering to a tear |
| lacrimo- | tearing or tear; lacrimal- refering to a tear or tearing |
| lact/o- | milk; lactose- sugar milk |
| lamin/o- | thin flat plate or layer; laminectomy- removal of a thin flat plate or layer |
| lap/i- | stone; lapis- refering to a stone |
| -lapse | falling or slippage; prolapse- before something falls and slips, meaning the normal before hand |
| laryngo- | voice box; laryngitis- inflmmation of the voice box |
| lat- | side; lateral- refering to the side |
| lax- | to loosen or loosening; relaxation- process of loosening up |
| lei/o- | smooth; leiomyoma- smooth muscle tumor |
| lent/o- | freckle |
| lepr/o- | scaly; leprosy- the process of getting scaly growths |
| -lepsy | seizure or convulsion; epilepsy- process of creating seizures |
| lepto- | thin or slender; leptomorphic- refers to thin or slend shape |
| leuk/o- | white; leukapheresis- seperating white blood cells |
| levat/o- | lift up; levator- one who lifts up |
| libid/o- | desire |
| lichen/i- | plant, its a type of moss |
| lieno- | spleen; lienitis- inflamtion of the spleen |
| liga- | to bind; ligament- a state of binding bone to bone |
| lingu- | tongue; bilingual- pertains to knowing two tongues |
| lip/o- | fat; lipoma- fat tumor |
| -listhesis | slippage; spondylolisthesis- condition where the veterbrae are slipping |
| liter | liter |
| lith/o- | stone, calculus or rock; nephrolith- kidney stones |
| lob/o- | lobe; lobectomy- procedure of cutting out usually a lung |
| lord/o- | swawyback (to bend); lordosis- conditon of swayback |
| lumb/o- | loin; lumbar- loin |
| lump- | small mass; lumpectomy- removal of a small mass |
| luna- | moon or crescent-shaped |
| lupus | wolf |
| lute/o- | yellow; luteal- yellow body like a corpus luteum |
| lux- | to dislocate; subluxation- refering to a dislocate |
| lymph/o- | watery; lymphoma- welling of the tumor with watery fluid |
| -lysis | destruction, breakdown, declinging; autolysis- self destruction |
| macer/o- | to make soft; maceration- process of making soft |
| macro- | large or huge; macrophage- large or huge eaters |
| macul/o- | large spot or flat skin freckle; macula lutea- yellow large skin freckle |
| magni- | large or greater; magnification- to make bigger |
| mal- | bad, harm, injury; malignant- refering to a harmful injury |
| malac/o- | soft or softening; osteromalacia- pertaiing to the softening of bones |
| mall/e/olus | little hammer; malleolus- small hammer |
| malle/o- | hammer; malleus- middle ear bone |
| mamm/o- | breast; mammary- refers to the breast |
| man/o- | hand; manual- pertaining to the hand |
| mand/i- | chew or chewer; mandible- the part of your body that chews |
| -mania | madness; kleptomaniac- madness of stealing |
| masset/o- | chewer or to chew; masseter- one who chews |
| masseur | male massager; masseur- giving massages |
| mast/o- | breast; mastectomy- removal of breasts |
| mastic/o- | to chew or chwing; mastication- process of chewing |
| -mata | multiple; carcinomata- multiple crab-like growths |
| maxill/o- | upper jaw; maxillary- referring to the jaw |
| measles | rubella, reddish or red |
| meat/o- | opening; meatus- refering to an opening |
| medi- | middle; median- refering to middle |
| mega- | great or big; megacolon- great or big large intestine |
| megalo- | huge or large; hepatomegally- creation of huge liver |
| mei/o and mio- | lesser, smaller, fewer and constrict; meiosis- to make smaller by splitting |
| mel- | sweet, honey, cheek, limb; melitis, inflammation of the cheek. |
| melan/o- | black; melanoma- skin cancer caused by a black tumor |
| men/o- | monthly or month; menopause- monthlies |
| mening/o- | membrane; menigitis- inflammation of the CNS membrane |
| menisc/o- | cresecnt- knee cartilage that is in the shape of half moon or c |
| ment/o- | mind; mental- pertains to mind |
| -mentum | chin; antementum- before the chin |
| mes/o- | middle; mesoderm- the middle layer of skin |
| meta- | beyond or change; metastasis- changing from standing cancer or spreading of cancer |
| -meter | measurement; spirometer- a breath measurement |
| metr/a- | uterus or womb, endometritis- inflmation within the womb |
| -metry | measurement procedure; optometry- a measuring process of vison |
| micro- | small; microglossia- refering to a small tongue |
| mictur/o- | to make water or urinate; micturition- proces of making water or urinate |
| milli- | one-thousandth |
| minimus- | smallest; minimum- refers to smallest |
| minute- | small |
| -mitr/e | head band or mitre box; mitral- refering to a head band |
| molo- | to mill or grind; molar- refer to mill or grinding |
| mon/o- | one; monocucleosis- condition of one nucleous |
| morpho- | shape; amorphous- wihtout shape or form |
| mort/o- | death; mortal- refering to death |
| -motor | movement or motion; oculomotor- eye movement |
| muc/o- | slime; mucoid- resembles slime |
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