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Medical Terminology
Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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disease | -pathy |
producing,originating, causing | -genic |
epithelium | epitheli/o |
fiber | fibr/o |
muscle | my/o |
flesh,connective tissue | sarc/o |
internal organs | viscer/o |
control, stop, standing | -stasis |
study of | -logy |
one who studies and treats (specialist, physician) | -logist |
tissue | hist/o |
fat | lip/o |
malignant tumor | -sarcoma |
new | neo- |
red | erythr/o |
black | melan/o |
above,excessive | hyper- |
abnormal condition | -osis |
white | leuk/o |
green | chlor/o |
rod-shaped, striated | rhabd/o |
smooth | lei/o |
disease | path/o |
cell | -cyte |
organ | organ/o |
body | somat/o |
nerve | neur/o |
cause (of disease) | eti/o |
cell | cyt/o |
tumor.swelling | -oma |
through, complete | dia- |
knowledge | gno/o |
growth, substance, formation | -plasm |
substance or agent that produces or causes | -gen |
condition of formation, development, growth | -plasia |
after, beyond, change | meta- |
system | system/o |
nucleus | kary/o |
gland | aden/o |
painful, abnormal, difficult, labored | dys- |
color | chrom/o |
tumor, mass | onc/o |
yellow | xanth/o |
cancer | cancer/o, carcin/o |
pertaining to | -al, -ic, -ous |
blue | cyan/o |
before | pro- |
resembling | -oid |
physician, medicine (treatment) | iatr/o |
below,incomplete, deficient | hypo- |
state of | -sis |