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Medical Term.

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Term
Definition
Arth/o   Joint  
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Cardi/o   Heart  
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Enter/o   Small Intestine  
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Gatsr/o   Stomach  
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Hepat/o   Liver  
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Neur/o   Nerve  
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Hem/o   Blood  
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Hemat/o   Blood  
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My/o   Muscle  
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Muscul/o   Muscle  
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Angi/o   Vessel  
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Vaso   Vessel  
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Vascul/o   VesseL  
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Derm/o   Skin  
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Dermato   Skin  
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Cutaneo   Skin  
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Pneum/o   Lung  
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Pulmon/o   Lung  
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Path/o   Disease  
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Gen/o   Creation  
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Sten/o   Narrowing  
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Myc/o   Fungus  
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Scler/o   Hard  
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Root   The basic meaning to a term  
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Combining Vowel   Adds a root to a root or a root to a suffix  
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Suffix   If the suffix begins a vowel, do not use a combing vowel  
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Direction Read   Rear to Front  
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Combing Form   A root plus a combing vowel  
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Prefix   Adds addition meaning to the beginning of a term  
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-ac   Pertaining to  
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-al   Pertaining to  
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-ary   Pertaining to  
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-ous   Pertaining to  
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-ic   Pertaining to  
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-ar   Pertaining to  
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-eal   Pertaining to  
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-ia   Condition of  
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osis   Condition of  
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-ism   Condition of  
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-icle   Small  
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-ole   Small  
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-ule   Small  
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-algia   Pain  
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-dynia   Pain  
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-itis   Inflammation  
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-emia   Blood Condition  
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-lysis   Loosen or Breakdown  
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-megaly   Enlargement  
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-penia   Deficiency  
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-rrhage   Excessive Flow  
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-spasm   Involuntary Contraction  
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-graph   Instrument used to produce a record  
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-scope   Instrument used to look  
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-scopy   Process of looking  
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-ectomy   Removal  
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-plasty   Reconstruction  
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-stomy   Creation of an opening  
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-tomy   Incision or cut  
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a-   Not  
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anti-   Against  
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brady-   Slow  
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Tachy   Fast  
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peri   Around  
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trans-   Through  
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intra, endo-   Inside  
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Epi   Upon  
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Sub   Beneath  
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inter-   Between  
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hyper-   Over  
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hypo-   Under  
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oligo-   Few  
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dys-   Bad, Difficult, Painful  
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poly-   Many  
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extra-   Outside  
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dia-   Trough  
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de-   Down, Away  
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