10 Chapter - Medical Terminology
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| alges/o | sensitivity to pain
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| angi/o | vessel (blood)
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| caus/o | burn, burning
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| cephal/o | head
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| cerebell/o | cerebellum (posterior part of the brain)
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| cerebr/o | cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
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| comat/o | deep sleep
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| crani/o | skull
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| cry/o | cold
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| dur/o | dura mater
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| encephal/o | brain
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| esthesi/o | nervous sensation
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| gli/o | glial cells; neuroglial cells (supportive tissue of nervous system)
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| hydr/o | water, fluid
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| kines/o | movement
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| kinesis/o | movement
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| lept/o | thin, slender
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| lex/o | word, phrase
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| mening/o | meninges (membrane covering the spinal cord and brain)
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| meningi/o | meninges (membrane covering the spinal cord and brain)
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| my/o | muscle
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| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow
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| narc/o | numbness, stupor, sleep
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| neur/o | nerve
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| olig/o | scanty
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| pont/o | pons (a part of the brain)
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| radicul/o | nerve root
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| spin/o | spine, backbone
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| syncop/o | to cut off, cut short, faint
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| tax/o | order, coordination
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| thalam/o | thalamus
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| thec/o | sheath
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| troph/o | nourishment, development
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| vag/o | vagus nerve
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| a- | no, not, without
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| an- | no, not, without
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| dys- | bad, painful, difficult
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| epi- | above, upon, on
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| hemi- | half
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| hyper- | above, excessive, more than normal
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| hypo- | deficient, below, less than normal, under
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| intra- | within, into
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| micro- | small
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| para- | near, beside, abnormal, apart from, along the side of
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| polio- | gray matter, of the brain or spinal cord
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| poly- | many, much
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| quadri- | four
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| sub- | under, below
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| algesia | sensitivity to pain
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| -algia | pain
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| -blast | embryonic, immature cell
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| -cele | hernia
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| -esthesia | nervous sensation
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| -gram | record
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -ine | pertaining to
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -kinesia | movement
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| -kinesis | movement
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| -kinetic | movement
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| -lepsy | seizure
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| -oma | tumor, mass, swelling, fluid collection
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| -ose | full of, pertaining to, sugar
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| -paresis | weakness
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| -pathy | disease condition, emotion
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| -phagia | eating, swallowing
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| -phasia | speech
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| -plegia | paralysis, palsy
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| -ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse, protrude
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| -sclerosis | hardening
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| -sthenia | strength
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| -tomy | process of cutting
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| -trophy | nourishment, development (condition of)
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