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VETT118
week1-Conditional/Structural Suffixes
Term | Definition |
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-algia/-dynia Arthralgia/Arthrodynia | pain joint pain |
-ia Hyperglycemia | state or condition elevated blood glucose |
-ion Infarction | action,process, state condition of blood flow obstruction |
-itis Hepatitis | inflammation inflammation of the liver |
-ive congestive | preforms or tends towards tends towards accumulation of fluids |
-malacia Osteomalacia | abnormal softening softening of the bones |
-megaly Cardiomegaly | enlargement enlargement of the heart |
-osis cardiosis | abnormal condition abnormal condition of the heart |
-pathy Enteropathy | disease disease of the small intestine |
-sclerosis Ateriosclerosis | abnormal hardening abnormal hardening of the arteries |
-um Pericardium | structure structure surrounding the heart |
-us Tarsus | the joint "thing" between the tibia and fibula and metatarsal bones |