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Chapter 1

TermDefinition
gen/o creation
hydr/o water
morph/o change
myc/o fungus
necr/o death
orth/o straight
path/o diseases/suffering
phag/o eat
plas/o formation
py/o pus
scler/o hard
troph/o development
xen/o foreign
-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -tic, -ous pertaining to
-ia, -ism condition
-ium tissue, structure
-y condition, procedure
-icle, -ole, -ule, -ula small
iatrics, -iatry medical science
-iatrist, -ist specialist in the medicine of; specalist
-logist, - logy specialist in the study of; study of
-algia, -dynia pain
-cele hernia
-emia blood condition
-iasis presence of
-itis inflammation
-lysis breakdown
-malacia abnormal softening
-megaly enlargement
-oid resembling
-oma tumor
-osis condition
-pathy disease
-penia deficiency
-ptosis drooping
-rrhage, -rrhagia excessive flow
-rrhea flow
-spasm involuntary contractions
-centesis puncture
-gram written record
-graph instrument used to produce a record
-graphy process of recording
-meter instrument used to measure
-metry process of measuring
-scope instrument used to look
-scopy process of looking
-desis binding
-ectomy removal
-pexy surgical fixation
-plasty reconstruction
-rraphy suture
-stomy creation of an opening
-tomy incision
sing: -a, -ax, -ex, -ix, -is, -ma plural: -ae, -aces, -ices, -ices, -es, -mata
sing: -on, -um, -us, -y plural: -a, -a, -i, -ies
a-, an- not
anti-, contra- against
de- down; away from
ante-, pre- before
pre- before
pro- before; on behalf of
brady- slow
tachy- fast
post- after
re- again
ab- away
ad- toward
circum-, peri- around
dia-,trans- through
e-, ec-, ex- out
ecto-, exo-, extra- outside
en-, endo-, intra-, inside
epi- upon
inter- between
bi- two
hemi-, semi- half
hyper- over
hypo- under
macro- large
micro- small
oligo- few
pan- all
poly-, multi- many
con-, syn-, sym- with; together
dys- bad
eu- good
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