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Medical Terminology
Melissa's Terms, Definitions, Prefix, Suffix and Roots
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Tonsillectomy | Removal of the tonsils |
| Ostromyelitis | Inflammation of bone/bone marrow |
| Hepatosplenomegly | Enlargement of liver/spleen |
| Diastolic | Relaxed |
| Epicardium | Outside the heart |
| Myocardium | Heart muscle |
| Angioma | Blood Vessel Tumor |
| Endocardium | Inside the heart |
| Systolic | Contraction |
| a-, an- | not |
| angi/o, vas/o, vascul/o | blood vessel |
| ad- | toward |
| arthr/o | joint |
| cardi/o | heart |
| derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| -algia. -dynia | pain |
| enter/o | small intestine |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| gen/o | generation, cause |
| brady- | slow |
| bi- | two |
| ante-, post- | before |
| anti-, contra- | against |
| Dysparenunia | Pain during sexual intercourse |
| xen/o | foreign |
| hem/o hemat/o | blood |
| circum-, peri- | around |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| hepat/o | liver |
| -ectomy | removal |
| hydr/o | water |
| myc/o | fungus |
| emia | blood condition |
| -cele | hernia, swelling, tumor |
| -centesis | puncture |
| -desis | binding |
| -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
| -gram | written record |
| -graphy | writing procedure |
| -graph | instrument used to produce a record |
| -ia, -ism. -osis | condition |
| -iasis | presence of |
| -iatrics | medical science |
| Pyelo | renal pelvis |
| Cyst/o | Bladder |
| -tomy | incision |
| -stomy | creation of an opening |
| Ur/o, Urin/o | Urine |
| -logy | study of |
| py/o | pus |
| pneum/o, pneumon/o | air or lungs |
| scler/o | hard |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| lith | stone |
| phag/o | eat |
| neur/o | nerve |
| necr/o | death |
| orth/o | straight |
| -icle | small |
| path/o | suffering, disease |
| Balan/o | Glans penis |
| Crypt- | hidden |
| morph/o | change |
| Hypermenorrhea | Excessive menstrual flow |
| sten/o | narrowing |
| troph/o | nourishment, development |
| ec-, ex- | out |
| ecto-, exo-, extra- | outside |
| inter- | between |
| hyper- | over |
| hypo- | under |
| PE | blockage in pulmonary circulation (Pulmonary Embolism) |
| Stomatoplasty | reconstruction of the mouth |
| Thoracostomy | Creation of the opening in the chest |
| Enterodynia | Pain in the intestines |
| -malacia | abnormal softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| -lysis | loosen, break down |
| -metry | process of measuring |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -pathy | disease |
| -old | resembling |
| -ole, -ula | small |
| mono-, uni- | one |
| micro- | small |
| oligo- | few |
| peri- | around |
| poly- | many |
| intra- | in, inside |
| -ptosis | drooping |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive flow |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -y | condition, process |
| tachy- | fast |
| trans- | through |
| sub- | beneath |
| con-, sym,- syn- | with, together |
| semi- | half |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -oma | tumor |
| pulmon/o | lungs |
| Dysentery | Dys - Bad, Enter - intestine, y-condition (Bad Intestine Condition) |
| Hepatosplenomegaly | Hepato - Liver, Spleno - Spleen, Megaly - Enlargement (Enlargement of the Liver and Spleen) |
| Angiosclerosis | Angio - vessel, scler - hard, osis - condition (hardening of a blood vessel) |
| dermatomycosis | dermato - skin, myc - fungus, osis - condition (skin condition caused by fungus) |
| Pericardium | peri - around, card - heart, ium - tissue (tissue around the heart) |
| Osteomyelitis | Osteo - bone, myel - marrow, itis - inflammation (inflammation of the bone marrow) |
| Osteocarcinoma | Osteo - bone, carcin - cancer, oma - tumor (bone cancer tumor) |
| Hypoglycemia | Hype - under, glyc - sugar, emia - blood condition (Low blood sugar) |
| Hyperplasia | Hyper - over, plas - formation, ia - condition (overformation condition) |
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