Intro to Medical Language
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| Eponym | something named for the person who discovered or invented it
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| Acronym | word made up of the first letters of each of the words that make up a phrase
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| Ultima | is the last syllable.
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| Penult | is the second-to-last syllable.
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| Antepenult | the one that is just before the penult (ante means before)
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| Root | foundation or subject of a term
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| Suffix | ending that gives essential meaning to the term
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| Prefix | added to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root
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| gen/o | creation, cause
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| hydr/o | water
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| morph/o | change
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| myc/o | fungus
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| necr/o | death
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| orth/o | straight
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| path/o | suffering, disease
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| phag/o | eat
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| plas/o | formation
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| py/o | pus
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| scler/o | hard
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| sten/o | narrowing
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| troph/o | nourishment, development
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| xen/o | foreign
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| -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic , -tic, -ous | pertaining to
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| -ia, -ism | condition
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| -ium | tissue, structure
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| -y | condition, procedure
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| -icle, -ole, -ule, -ula | small
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| tom/o | to cut
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| -e, e-, ec-, ex- | out
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| -ectomy | to cut out, removal
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| hem/o, hemat/o | blood
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| angi/o, vas/o, vascul/o | vessel
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| -ist | speacialist
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| -logy | study of
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| -logist | specialist in the study of
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| -iatrics, -iatry | medical science
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| -iatrist | specialist in medicine of
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| -algia, -dynia | pain
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| -cele | hernia (bulging of tissue into an area where it doesn't belong
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| -emia | blood condition
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| -iasis | presence of
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| -itis | inflammation
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| -lysis | loosen, break down
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| -malacia | abnormal softening
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| -oid | resmebling
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| -oma | tumor
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| -osis | condition
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| -pathy | disease
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| -penia | deficiency
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| -ptosis | drooping
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| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive flow
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| -rrhea | flow
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| -rrhexis | rupture
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| -spasm | involuntary contraction
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| -centesis | punture
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| -gram | written record
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| -graph | instrument used to produce a record
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| -meter | instrument used to measure
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| -metry | process of measuring
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| -scope | instrument used to look
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| -scopy | process of looking
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| -desis | binding, fixation
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| -pexy | surgical fixation
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| -plasty | reconstruction
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| -rrhaphy | suture
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| -stomy | creation of an opening
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| -tomy | incision
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| a-, an- | not
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| anti-, contra- | against
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| de- | down, away from
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| ante-, pre- | before
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| pro- | before, on behalf of
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| brady- | slow
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| tachy- | fast
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| post- | after
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| re- | again
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| ab- | away
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| ad- | toward
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| circum-, peri- | around
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| dia-, trans- | through
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| ecto-, exo-, extra- | outside
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| en-, endo-, intra- | in, inside
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| epi- | upon
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| sub- | beneath
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| inter- | between
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| bi- | two
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| hemi-, semi- | half
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| hyper- | over
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| hypo- | under
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| macro- | large
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| micro- | small
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| mono-, uni- | one
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| oligo- | few
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| pain- | all
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| poly-, multi- | many
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| con-, syn-, sym- | with, together
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| dys- | bad
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| eu- | good
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| peri- | around
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