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Flash card 1& 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gen/o | Creation, cause |
| Hydr/o | Water |
| Morph/o | Change |
| Myc/o | Fungus |
| Necr/o | Death |
| Orth/o | Straight |
| Path/o | Suffering, disease |
| Phag/o | Eat |
| Plas/o | Formation |
| Py/o | Pus |
| Scler/o | Hard |
| Sten/o | Narrowing |
| Troph/o | Nourishment, development |
| Xen/o | Foreign |
| Xer/o | Dry |
| -ac | Pertaining to |
| -tic | Pertaining to |
| -ia -ism | Condition |
| -ium | Tissue, structure |
| -y | Condition, proceudre |
| -icle | Small |
| -iatric | Medical science |
| -iatrist | Specialist in medicine of |
| -ist | Special |
| -logist | Specialist in the study of |
| -logy | Study of |
| -algia | Pain |
| -cele | Hernia |
| -emia | Blood condition |
| -iasis | Presence of |
| -itis | Inflammation |
| -lysis | Loosen, breakdown |
| -malacia | Abnormal softening |
| -megaly | Enlargement |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | condition |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -ptosis | drooping |
| -rrhage | excessive flow |
| -rrhea | flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -spasm | involuntary contractions |
| -centesis | punture |
| -gram | written records |
| -graph | instrument used to produce a record |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| -metry | process of measuring |
| -scope | instrument used to look |
| -scopy | process of looking |
| -desis | binding, fixation |
| -ectomy | removal |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -plasty | reconstruction |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -stomy | creation of an opening |
| -tomy | incision |
| -a | -ae pronouncing |
| -ax | -aces pronounce |
| -ex | Pronounced -ices |
| -ix | pronounced -ices |
| -is | pronounced -es |
| -ma | Pronounced -mata |
| -on | pronounced-a |
| -um | -a |
| -us | -i |
| -y | -ies |
| a- ay- | not |
| anti | against |
| de- | down, away from |
| ante- | before |
| pre- | before |
| pro- | before, on behalf of |
| brady- | slow |
| tachy- | fast |
| post- | after |
| re- | again |
| ab- | away |
| ad- | toward |
| circum- | around |
| peri- | around |
| dia- | through |
| trans- | through |
| e-/ eh-/ ec-/ ex- | out |
| ecto-/ exo-/ extra- | outside |
| en-/ endo-/ extra- | in, inside |
| epi- | upon |
| sub- | beneath |
| inter- | between |
| bi- | two |
| hemi-/ semi- | half |
| hyper- | over |
| hypo- | under |
| macro- | large |
| micro- | small |
| mono-/ uni- | one |
| oligo- | few |
| pan- | all |
| poly-/ multi- | many |
| con-/ sym-/ syn- | with, together |
| dys- | bad |
| eu- | good |