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medicine
prefixes, sufixes, rootwords
Question | Answer |
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itis | inflammation |
cardi | heart |
osteo | bone |
lapar | abdomen. abdominal wall |
dys | difficult, bad, painful |
hemat | blood |
ology | study of |
ologist | doctor |
malacia | softening of tissue |
gastro | stomach |
pnea | breath |
otomy | to cut |
bradycardia | abnormally slow heartbeat |
laryngitis | inflammation of the larynx |
dysuria | difficult/painful urination |
thoracentesis | puncture of chest wall with needle to obtain fluid from pleural cavity for diagnostic purposes, drain pleural effusions, or expand lungs. |
osteoarthritis | wear amd tear arthritis |
Nephrosis | any abnormal condition of the kidney |
Gastralgia | pain in the stomach |
Hepatitis | inflammation of liver |
Arteriostenosis | abnormal narrowing of artery or arteries |