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Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hemo // hemat/o | Blood ; hemoglobin |
| Path/o | Suffering/Disease ; pathology |
| -malacia | Abnormal softening ; osteomalacia |
| -oma | tumor ; melanoma |
| -pathy | disease ; myopathy |
| -penia | deficiency ; leukopenia |
| -rrhage / -rrhagia | excessive flow ; hemorrhage/menorrhagia |
| -rrhea | flow ; diarrhea |
| pan | all ; pancytopenia |
| poly- | many ; polygraph |
| dys- | bad ; dysentery |
| Eu- | good; euphoria |
| circum- / peri- | around ; circumcision / pericardium |
| brady- | slow ; bradycardia |
| tachy- | fast; tachycardia |
| ante-/pre-/pro- | before; antepartum/precondition/probiotic |
| scler/o | hard; scleroderma |
| sten/o | narrowing; stenosis |
| -megaly | enlargement; hepatomegaly |
| -ectomy | removal; vasectomy |