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Medical Billing- Lesson 5 Flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crani/o/ | Skull |
| cyst/o/ | sac of fluid, bladder |
| gastr/o/ | stomach |
| gloss/o/ | tongue |
| hist/o/ | tissue |
| lith/o/ | stone |
| myel/o/ | bone marrow, spinal cord |
| oste/o/ | bone |
| pulmon/o/ | lung |
| splen/o/ | spleen |
| thorac/o/ | chest |
| cyt/o/ | cell |
| duct/o/ | carry |
| glyc/o/ | sugar |
| hem/o/, hemat/o/ | blood |
| hydr/o/ | water, fluid |
| muc/o/ | mucus |
| neur/o/ | nerve |
| path/o/ | disease |
| ren/o/ | kidney |
| tens/o/ | pressure |
| thromb/o/ | clot |
| derm/o/, dermat/o/ | skin |
| enter/o/ | small intestine |
| gen/o/ | giving rise to, creating |
| hepat/o/ | liver |
| leuk/o/ | white |
| my/o/ | muscle |
| norm/o/ | proper, rule |
| ped/o/ | child, infant, foot |
| secti/o/ | cut into |
| therm/o/ | heat |
| ven/o/ | vein |
| acro/o/ | extremity, tip |
| aden/o/ | gland |
| arthr/o/ | joint |
| cardi/o/ | heart, upper part of stomach |
| append/o/, appendic/o/ | appendix |
| arteri/o/ | artery |
| bi/o/ | living thing, life |
| col/o/, colon/o/ | large intestine, colon |