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Chapter 1&2 Exam
Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cyan/o | Blue |
| erythr/o | Red |
| leuk/o | white |
| melan/o | black |
| poli/o | gray |
| Hyper | excessive |
| pre | Before |
| post | after |
| Homo | same |
| Hypo | under |
| prenatal | Time before Birth |
| ab | Away from |
| dys | bad difficult pain |
| inter | between, amoung |
| sub | under, less, below |
| hypo | deficient, decreased |
| intra | within, inside |
| super/supra | above, excessive |
| itis | inflammation |
| malacia | abnormal softening |
| megaly | enlargement |
| necrosis | tissue dealth |
| sclerosis | abnormal hardening |
| stenosis | abnormal narrowing |
| centesis | surgical punture to remove fluid |
| graphy | producing a picture record |
| plasty | surgical repair |
| scopy | visual examination |
| rrange or rragia | bleeding |
| rrhopy | surgical closure of wound |
| rrhea | flow or discharge of body fluids |
| rrhexis | rupture |
| AD | Toward or in the direction of |
| ADEN/O | Gland |
| Anatomy | study of body structure |
| APTERI/O | Artery |
| CONGENITAL | disease inherited at birth |
| DISTAL | Farthest from the Middle |
| DORSAL | back of the body/organ |
| END/O | inside the body |
| EX/O | Outside of Body |
| FRONTAL | Plane dividing back and front |
| GASTR/O | Stomach |
| GENETIC | Hereditary disease /disorder |
| INTERIOR | Structure closest to feet |
| LESION | pathological change of tissue due to injury/disease |
| MALACIA | abnormal softening |
| NOSOCOMIAL | Hospital- acquired infection |
| -OLOGIST | specialist |
| -OLOGY | Study of |
| -OSIS | A disease or abnormal condition |
| PHYSIOLOGY | study of body function |
| -PLASIA | Formation of a tissue/organ |
| PRONE | Position lying on a stomach |
| PROXIMAL | closest to the midline of the body |
| -RRHAPHY | to suture or stitch |
| SAGITTAL | Plane dividing right/left sides |
| Superior | Closest to head |
| SUPINE | position laying on the back |
| TRANSVERSE | Plane dividing top and bottom |
| VENTRAL | in front of the body/organ |
| arthro/o | joint |
| bi | life |
| brady | slow |
| caud/o | lower part of the tail |
| -cele | hernia, tumor,swelling |
| cephal/o | head |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| cost/o | rib |
| crani/o | skull |
| desis | to bind, tie together |
| fasci/o | face, form |
| fibr/o | ,fibrous tissue,fiber |
| hemo | blood, relating to blood |
| poly | many |
| kines/o, kinesi/o | movement |
| lysis | breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening |
| my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow |
| oste/o | bone |
| porosis | lessening in density,porous condition |
| ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o | tendon, stretch out,extend, strain |
| ton/o | tension |
| tri- | three |
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