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Medical Terminology
Prefix, Suffix, and Word Roots (Part B)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aden | gland, glandural |
| oma | tumor, a swelling |
| adenoma | non-cancerous tumor |
| anti | against |
| toxic | poison |
| antitoxic | against poison |
| ophthalmology | eye |
| ology | study of |
| ophthalmology | study of eye |
| chole | bile, gallbladder |
| cyst | bladder, bag, sac |
| ectomy | surgical removal of |
| cholecystectomy | surgical removal of gallbladder |
| endo | within, innermost |
| card | pertaining to heart |
| itis | inflammation of |
| endocarditis | inflammation of the heart lining |
| gastro | stomach |
| enter | intestine |
| gastroenteritis | inflammation of the stomach and the intestine |
| hypo | decreased, deficient, low under, less than normal |
| glyc | sugar |
| emia | blood |
| hypoglycemia | low level of blood sugar |
| septic | poison, rot, infection |
| septicemia | blood poisoning |
| olig | few, less than normal, small |
| uria | urine |
| oliguria | less than normal urine |
| bronch | air tubes in lungs |
| bronchitis | inflammation of the air tubes in the lungs |
| homo | same, like |
| geneous | kind, type |
| homogenous | same kind |
| aterio | artery |
| sclerosis | dryness or hardness |
| arteriosclerosis | hardness of an artery |
| dys | difficult, painful, bad |
| meno | monthly, menstruation |
| rrhea | flow discharge |
| dysmenorrhea | difficult monthly flow or discharge |
| angio | vessel |
| pathy | disease, abnormal condition |
| angiopathy | disease of blood vessel |
| blepharo | eyelid |
| rrhaphy | suture of, sewing up of a gap or defect |
| blepharorrhaphy | suture of an eyelid |
| urethro | urethra |
| urethrocysitis | inflammation of the urethra and bladder |
| pneumono | lung, pertaining to the lungs air |
| melan | black |
| osis | condition, state process |
| pneumonomelanosis | blackening of the lung-tissue |
| para | near, beside |
| osteo | bone |
| arthro | joint |
| paraosteoarthropathy | disease near the bone and joint |
| salpingo | tube, fallopian tube |
| oophoro | ovary, female egg cell |
| cele | swelling, tumor, hernia |
| salpingo-oophorocele | hernia of fallopian |
| idio | peculiar to an individual |
| pathic | decrease |
| thrombo | clot, thrombus |
| cyto | cell |
| penia | lack of deficieng formation |
| idiopathic thrombocytopenia | self-originating disease with a decrease in number of cells causing a clot |
| narco | sleep,numb, stupor |
| epi | upon, over, upper |
| lepsy | seizure, convulsion |
| narcoepilepsy | seizure while sleeping |
| post | after behind |
| partum | birth, labor |
| postpartum | after childbirth |
| hernio | rupture |
| rrhaphy | suture of, sewing up a rupcture |
| herniorrhaphy | suture or sewing up a rupcture |
| derma | pertaining to skin |
| cyan | blue |
| osis | condition, state, process |
| dermacyanosis | condition of blueness of skin |
| thora | thorax, chest |
| centesis | puncture |
| thoracentesis | removes fluid or air from the chest through a tube. |
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