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med-term#1
terms from chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| -centesis | punture |
| -ectomy | excision,removal |
| -stomy | forming an opening (mouth) |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision,cut into |
| -desis | binding,fusion,fixation (of bone or joint) |
| -pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -clasis | break,fracture |
| -lysis | seperate,destruct,loosening |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| -algia ,-dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia,swelling |
| -ectasis | dilation,expansion |
| -emia | blood condition,relationship |
| -gen (instrument or agent) | forming, producing, origin |
| -genesis -genesis (process) | forming, producing, origin |
| -gram | record, a writing |
| -graph | instrument forrecording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -iasis | abnormal condition |
| -itis | inflamation |
| -lith | stone, calculus |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | instrument for measuring |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor, swelling, mass |
| -osis | abnormal condition, increase(used mostly with blood cells) |
| -para (parous) | to bear (offspring) |
| -paresis | partial paralysis |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | decrease, deficiency |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -phasia (plasm) | speech |
| -philia | attraction for |
| -phobia | fear |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -poiesis | formation, production |
| -ptosis | prolapse, drooping downward displacement |
| -rrhage -rrhagia | bursting forth |
| -rrhea | discharge, flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument to view or examine |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
| -stasis | standing still |
| -stenosis | narrowing, stricture |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| -toxic | poison |
| a, an | not, without |
| ab | away from |
| ad | toward |
| ana | up, apart |
| ante | before, forward |
| anti | against |
| auto | self, own |
| bi | two |
| brady | slow |
| cata | down |
| con | with, together |
| contra | against, opposite |
| de | down, lack of |
| dia | through, complete |
| dys | bad, painful, difficult |
| ec, ecto | out, outside |
| en, endo | in, within |
| epi | up, upon, on, above |
| eu | good, well |
| ex | out, away from |
| hemi | half |
| hyper | excessive, above |
| htpo | deficient, under |
| in | not, in |
| infra | beneath |
| inter | between |
| intra | within, in |
| macro | large |
| mal | bad |
| meta | change, beyond, between |
| micro | small |
| pan | all |
| para | near, beside, abnormal, apart, from |
| per | throough |
| peri | surrounding |
| poly | many, much |
| post | after, behind |
| pre | before, in front of |
| pro | before, forward |
| pseudo | false |
| re | back, again |
| retro | behind, backward |
| sub | under |
| supra | above, upper |
| syn, sym | together, with |
| tachy | fast |
| trans | across, through |
| ultra | beyond, excess |
| uni | one |
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