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Flashcards - Week 1
Medical Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| angi/o | blood vessel |
| arthr/o | joint |
| derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| enter/o | small intestine |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| gen/o | generation, cause |
| hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| hydr/o | water |
| morph/o | change |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| myc/o | fungus |
| necr/o | death |
| neur/o | nerve |
| orth/o | straight |
| path/o | suffering, disease |
| phag/o | eat |
| plas/o | formation |
| pneum/o, pneumon/o, pulmon/o | lung |
| py/o | pus |
| scler/o | hard |
| sten/o | narrowing |
| troph/o | nourishment, development |
| vas/o, vascul/o | blood vessel |
| xen/o | foreign |
| ab- | away |
| ad- | toward |
| ante-, pre- | before |
| brady- | slow |
| circum- | around |
| contra- | against |
| dia- | through |
| -ia,-ism | condition |
| -ium | tissue,structure |
| -y | condition,procedure |
| -icle,-ole,-ule,-ula | small |
| -iatrics,-iatry | specialist in the medicine of |
| -algia,-dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -iasis | presence of |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -lysis | loosen, breakdown |
| -malacia | abnormal softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | condition |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -ptosis | drooping |
| -rrhage,-rragia | excessive flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -rrhea | flow |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction |
| -centesis | puncture |
| -gram | written record |
| -graph | instrument to make record |
| -graphy | writing procedure |
| -meter | instrument to measure |
| -metry | the process of measuring |
| -scope | instrument to look |
| -scopy | process of looking |
| -tic | pertaining to |
| macro- | large |
| micro- | small |
| mono- | one |
| oligo- | few |
| pan- | all |
| poly- | many |
| dys- | bad |
| eu- | good |
| con-, syn-, sym- | with, together |
| hyper- | over |
| hypo- | under |
| kyph- | bent |
| lord- | bent backwards |
| scoll- | crooked |
| post- | after |
| -desis | binding, fixation |
| -ectomy | removal |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -plasty | reconstruction |
| -rraphy | suture |
| -stomy | creating of an opening |
| -tomy | incision |
| -centisis | puncture |
| epidermis | outer most layer of skin |
| dermis | deeper layer of skin |
| adip/o-, lip/o-, steat/o- | fat |
| cutane/o-, derm/o-, dermat/o- | skin |
| pil/o-, trich/o- | hair |
| hidr/o- | sweat |
| squam/o- | scale |
| onych/o-, ungu/o- | nail |
| seb/o-, sebace/o- | oil |
| crypt/o- | hidden |
| kerat/o- | hard, horny |
| xer/o- | dry |
| xanth/o- | yellow |
| erythr/o- | red |
| leuk/o-, alb/o- | white |
| melan/o- | black |
| anhydrosis | lack of sweating |
| comedo | a hair follicle plugged with sebum (blackhead/whitehead) |
| cyanhydrosis | blue sweat |
| dermatalgia | skin pain |
| dermatolysis | loose skin |
| erythema | redness |
| hemathidrosis | sweating blood |
| hidroplesis | formation of sweat |
| hyperhydrosis | excessive sweating |
| hyperkerotosis | excessive growth of horny skin |
| hypermelanosis | excessive melanin in skin |
| hypohidrosis | diminished sweating |
| hypomelanosis | diminished melanin in skin |
| hypopigmentation | diminished pigment in skin |
| leukoderma | white skin |
| macerate | to soften the skin |
| onychophagia | eating or biting nails |
| pruritus | an itch |
| rhytidermia | wrinkled skin |
| sebopoiesis | formation of sebum |
| urticaria | swollen raised itchy areas of the skin |
| xerosis | condition of dryness |
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