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Intro-Cardiac
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| angio | vessel/dutc |
| arterio | artery |
| endo | within |
| arthro | joint |
| hem/hemato | blood |
| athero | fatty plaque |
| cardio | heart |
| myo | muscle |
| peri | around |
| colo | large intestine |
| cranio | skull |
| dermato | skin |
| gastro | stomach |
| small intestine | entero |
| liver | hepato |
| voice box | laryngo |
| stone | litho |
| gall/bile | chole |
| bladder | cysto |
| kidney | nephro |
| fungus | myco |
| spinal cord/bone marrow | myelo |
| gray | polio |
| nato | birth/born |
| pre | before |
| post | after |
| neuro | nerve |
| bone | osteo |
| con | together/with |
| disease | patho |
| pus | pyo |
| pyro | hot/fever/fire |
| rhino | nose |
| red | erythro |
| leuko | white |
| melano | black |
| blue | cyano |
| dia | through |
| pro | forward/in front of |
| hyper | excessive |
| burso | little sac |
| chiro | hand |
| wrist | carpo |
| tarso | ankle |
| beyond | meta |
| costo | rib |
| chondro | cartilage |
| between | inter |
| within | intra |
| under | sub |
| cephalo | head |
| brain | encephalo |
| vertebrae | spondylo/vertebro |
| crooked/bent/stiff | ankylo |
| syn | together/with |
| cervico | neck |
| chest | thoraco |
| foot | pod/ped |
| straight | ortho |
| X-ray | radio |
| hump | kypho |
| scolio | crooked |
| lower back | lumbo |
| bent backwards | lordo |
| to the side | latero |
| breastbone | sterno |
| clavico | collar bone |
| scapulo | shoulder blade |
| poly | many |
| rhabdo | rod/wand/skeletal |
| leio | smooth |
| mono | one |
| para | near/beside |
| hemi | half (one side) |
| half (partial) | semi |
| hydro | water |
| ab | away |
| ad | toward |
| knee | genu |
| stretch | extenso |
| bend | flexo |
| ability | habilito |
| back/again | re |
| kinesio | movement |
| slow | brady |
| bad/painful/difficult | dys |
| gonio | angle |
| corono | crown/heart |
| tachy | fast |
| A/An | not, without |
| athero | fatty plaque |
| vein | phlebo/veno |
| narrowing | stenosis |
| to hold back | Isch |
| thrombo | clot |
| Pan | all/every |
| systol | to contract |
| diastol | to expand |
| palpitato | to move/beat rapidly/throb |
| palpato | to stroke/touch |
| vasculo | vessel |
| tenso | pressure/force |
| anti | against |
| far/distant | tele |
| throwing in/inserted | embolo |
| wall | septo |
| oxy | oxygen |
| de | down/away |
| sono | sound |
| sound | echo/sono |
| sphygmo | pulse |
| stetho | chest |
| pectoro | chest |
| outer edges | periphero |
| pulmono | lungs |
| varico | dilated vessel |
| ec/ecto | outside/out |
| ex | away |
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