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Medical Terminology
Term | Definition |
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brady | slow |
anti | against, opposite of |
leuk/o | white |
epi | upon, over, above |
algia | condition of pain |
ism | condition |
combining vowel | O |
ectomy | surgical removel |
eponyms | terms derived from famous people |
sub | under, beneath, below |
gastro | stomach |
hemi | half |
neo | new |
arthr/o | joint |
trans | across |
penia | deficiency or abnormal reduction in number |
stomy | surgical creation |
oma | tumor |
constructed terms | terms form from individual word parts |
logy | study or science of |
prefix | word part that comes to the beginning |
suffix | word part that is attached to the end of a word |
root | provides the main meaning of the word stating |
scope | viewing instrument |
hyper | excessive, abnormally high, above |
epigastric region | region above the stomach |