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medical terms 1

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greek and latin medical language is made up of two languages:
eponym a word formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented what's being described. sometimes a disease is named after the first victim
acronym means "to make a name with the ends", making a word out of the first letters of each word describing the thing. like MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)
greece, rome the foundations of western medicine were in ancient _______ and ______.
Hippocrates the father of western medicine
latin the global language of the scientific revolution
health care each medical word is a description of some aspect of ________ _______.
ultima the last syllable of a word, meaning "last"
penult "almost the last", second to last syllable of a word
antepenult third to last syllable of a word
root foundation or subject of the term
suffix ending that gives essential meaning to the term
prefix added to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root
arthr/o root that means "joint"
cardi/o root that means "heart"
enter/o root that means "small intestine"
gastr/o root that means "stomach"
hepat/o root that means "liver"
neur/o root that means "nerve"
hem/o root that means "blood"
hemat/o root that means "blood" (not hemo)
my/o root that means "muscle"
muscul/o root that means "muscle" (not myo)
angi/o root that means "vessel"
vas/o root that means "vessel" (not angio nor vasculo)
vascul/o root that means "vessel" (not angio nor vaso)
derm/o root that means "skin"
dermat/o root that means skin
cutane/o root that means skin"
pneum/o or pneumon/o roots that mean "lung"
pulmon/o alt root for "lung
gen/o root that means "creation/cause"
hydr/o root that means "water"
morph/o root that means "change"
myc/o root that means fungus
necr/o root that means death
orth/o root that means straight
path//o root that means suffering/disease
phag/o root that means eat
plas/o root that means formation
py/o root that means pus
scler/o root that means hard
sten/o root that means narrowing
troph/o root that means nourishment/development
xen/o root that means foreign
-ac suffix: pertaining to
-al suffix: pertaining to
-ar suffix: pertaining to
-ary suffix: pertaining to
-eal suffix: pertaining to
-ic suffix: pertaining to
-tic suffix: pertaining to
-ous suffix: pertaining to
-ia suffix: condition
-ism suffix: condition
-ium suffix: tissue/structure
-y suffix: condition/procedure
dimunitive when added to a root, suffixes that transform a term's meaning to a smaller version of the root
-icle suffix: small
-ole suffix: small
-ule suffix: small
-ula suffix: small
complex suffix suffixes with more parts, can be referred to as compound or combination suffixes because they can be formed from other suffixes
-iatrics or -iatry suffix: pediatrics
-iatrist suffix meaning specialist in medicine of
-ist suffix meaning specialist
-logist suffix meaning specialist in the study of
-logy suffix meaning study of
-algia/-dynia suffix meaning pain
-cele suffix meaning hernia
-emia suffix meaning blood condition
-iasis suffix meaning presence of
-itis suffix meaning inflammation
-lysis suffix meaning loosen/break down
-malacia suffix meaning abnormal softening
-megaly suffix meaning enlargement
-oid suffix meaning resembling
-oma suffix meaning tumor
-osis suffix meaning condition
-pathy suffix meaning disease
-penia suffix meaning deficiency
-ptosis suffix meaning drooping
-rrhage/-rrhagia suffix meaning excessive flow
-rrhea suffix meaning flow
-rrhexis suffix meaning rupture
-spasm suffix meaning involuntary contraction
-centesis suffix meaning puncture
-gram suffix meaning written record
-graph suffix meaning instrument used to produce a record
-graphy suffix meaning writing procedure
-meter suffix meaning instrument used to measure
-metry suffix meaning process of measuring
-scope suffix meaning instrument used to look
-scopy suffix meaning process of looking
-desis suffix meaning binding/fixation
-ectomy suffix meaning removal
-pexy suffix meaning surgical fixation
-plasty suffix meaning reconstruction
-rrhaphy suffix meaning suture
-stomy suffix meaning creation of an opening
-tomy suffix meaning incision
-ae plural for -a
-aces plural for -ax
-ices plural for -ex and -ix
-es plural for -is
-mata plural for -ma
-a plural for -on and -um
-i plural for -us
-ies plural for -y
a- or an- prefix for not
anti- or contra- prefix for against
de- prefix for down, away from
ante- or pre- prefix meaning before
pro- prefix for before/on behalf of
brady- prefix for slow
tachy- prefix for fast
post- prefix for after
re- prefix for again
ab- prefix for away
ad- prefix for toward
circum- and peri- prefix for around
dia- and trans- prefix for through
e-/ec-/ex- prefixes for out
ecto-/exo-/extra- prefixes for outside
en-/endo-/intra- prefixes for in/inside
epi- prefix for upon
sub- prefix for beneath
inter- prefix for between
bi- prefix for two
hemi- and semi- prefixes for half
hyper- prefix for over
hypo- prefix for under
macro- prefix for large
micro- prefix for small
mono- or uni- prefix for one
oligo- prefix for few
pan- prefix for all
poly- or multi- prefix for many
con-/syn-/sym prefixes for with/together
dys- prefix for bad
eu- prefix for good
combining vowel vowel that makes it easier to combine a root with other word parts when needed
combining form a combination of a root with a combining vowel
splenomegaly enlargement of the spleen
hepatosplenomegaly enlargement of the liver and spleen
suffix, prefix, root order in which to interpret a term
read the word first step to interpret
say the word second step to interpret
break the word into parts third step to interpret
translate the parts fourth step to interpret
reassemble the pieces into a statement fifth step to interpret
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