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Health care
music therapy HC medical terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A, an- | absent, without |
| bio- | life |
| Brady- | slow |
| dys- | bad, difficult, painful |
| macro- | large |
| meta- | small, very small |
| multi- | many |
| myel/o- | spinal cord, bone marrow |
| neo- | new |
| neur/o- | nerves |
| nulli- | none |
| oligo- | small, little, scanty |
| peri- | around about |
| phas/o- | speech |
| phleb/o- | vein |
| plas/o- | formation, change |
| post- | after |
| pre- | before |
| primi- | first |
| pyret/o- | fever |
| secudni- | second |
| sub, hypo- | below, under |
| supra, super- | above, over |
| syn- | together |
| tachy- | fast |
| thrombus- | blood clot |
| topos, top/o- | place or location |
| xanth/o- | yellow |
| algesia | sense of pain |
| amni/o, amniot/o | fetal sac |
| angi/o | vessel |
| arteri/o | artery |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| bronch/I, bronch/o | bronchus |
| cardio | heart |
| core, core/o | pupil |
| crescence | to grow |
| cycl/o | ciliary body |
| dactyl/o | fingers |
| dipl/o | paired, double |
| edema | fluid accumulation in tissues |
| embolism | obstruction of blood vessel |
| embolus | foreign particle in blood stream |
| esthesia | feeling, sensation |
| gravid/a | with child |
| gyn/o, gynec/o | woman |
| hyster/o | uterus |
| ir, irid/o | iris |
| lacrim/o | tear |
| laryng/o | voice box |
| mamm/o | breast, mammary gland |
| mast/o | breast |
| men/o | menses, menstruation |
| ment/o | chin |
| metr/o | uterus |
| nas/o | nose |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| para | bear, bring forth |
| path/o | disease |
| pharyng/o | throat |
| pleur/o | covering of the lung |
| pyro | fire, heat |
| pyret/o | fever |
| retin/o | retina |
| scler/o | sclera (white of eye) |
| thorac/o | thorax, bony chest cage |
| trach/e | trachea |
| trache/o | windpipe |
| -ary | of or pertaining to |
| -atrophy | undernourished, wasting |
| -blast | embryonic; immature cell in process of developing |
| -centesis | puncture a cavity and remove fluid |
| -drome | running along |
| -dynia | pain, painful |
| -emia | blood |
| -ia | condition |
| -mania | madness |
| -opsy | appearance, sight |
| -orexia | appetite |
| -orrhexis | rupture, bursting apart |
| -pathy | disease |
| -plasm | thing formed |
| -poly | many, too much |
| -ptosis | hanging, drooping |
| -stasis | standing, location, place |
| -sym, syn | together |
| -tripsy | rubbing, crushing |
| chor/o | green |
| circum- | around |
| ecto, exo | outer side |
| end/o | inner, within |
| epi | over, surrounding |
| erythr/o | red |
| gen/o | combining form to denote originating or production |
| infra- | below, beneath |
| melan/o | black |
| meso/ | middle |
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