Medical terminology a living language
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| A-or an- | show 🗑
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| show | Before or in front of
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| Anti- | show 🗑
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| show | Self
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| Brady- | show 🗑
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| Contra- | show 🗑
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| Dia- | show 🗑
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| dys- | show 🗑
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| end- or endo- | show 🗑
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| epi- | show 🗑
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| show | normal or good
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| ex- | show 🗑
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| show | different
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| show | water
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| show | excessive or above normal or above
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| show | deficient or below normal or below
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| in- | show 🗑
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| infra- | show 🗑
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| inter- | show 🗑
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| show | within or inside
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| ipsi- | show 🗑
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| show | large
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| meta- | show 🗑
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| show | small
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| neo- | show 🗑
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| par- or para- | show 🗑
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| per- | show 🗑
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| show | around
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| show | many
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| post- | show 🗑
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| show | before or in front of
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| pseudo- | show 🗑
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| retro- | show 🗑
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| show | together
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| show | rapid or fast
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| trans- | show 🗑
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| show | beyond or excess
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| show | two or double or twice
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| show | half
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| show | one
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| show | many
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| show | none
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| show | four
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| show | partial or half
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| show | three
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| show | joint
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| carcin/o | show 🗑
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| show | heart
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| chem/o | show 🗑
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| dermat/o | show 🗑
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| enter/o | show 🗑
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| gastr/o | show 🗑
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| show | liver
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| immun/o | show 🗑
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| morph/o | show 🗑
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| muscul/o | show 🗑
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| show | kidney
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| neur/o | show 🗑
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| show | eye
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| oste/o | show 🗑
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| show | ear
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| show | pharynx (commonly called throat)
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| show | lung
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| rhin/o | show 🗑
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| therm/o | show 🗑
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| tonsill/o | show 🗑
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| show | vertebra (a bone of the spinal column)
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| -algia | show 🗑
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| -cele | show 🗑
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| show | cut
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| -cyte | show 🗑
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| -derma | show 🗑
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| -dynia | show 🗑
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| -edema | show 🗑
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| show | blood condition (add this suffix creates a noun)
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| show | relating to blood (add this suffix creates an adjective)
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| show | that which produces (add sfx creates a noun such as carcinogen)
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| -genesis | show 🗑
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| -genic | show 🗑
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| show | knowing
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| -ia | show 🗑
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| show | state of
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| -ion | show 🗑
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| show | inflammation (a response to injury or infection)
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| show | process of
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| -ize | show 🗑
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| -logist | show 🗑
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| show | study of
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| show | separation or destruction (creates a noun for example hemolysis)
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| show | separating or destructing (creates an adjective for example hemolytic)
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| show | softening
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| show | enlargement large
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| show | tumor or mass
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| show | view of
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| -osis | show 🗑
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| -pathy | show 🗑
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| show | abnormal fear or aversion
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| show | paralysis
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| -porosis | show 🗑
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| show | drooping
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| show | profuse fluid discharge or excessive discharge
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| -rrhea | show 🗑
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| show | rupture
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| show | hardening
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| -stasis | show 🗑
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| show | narrowing
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| -therapy | show 🗑
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| show | development or nourishment
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| -um | show 🗑
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| -uria | show 🗑
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| -centesis | show 🗑
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| -ectomy | show 🗑
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| show | surgical construction of a mouth or outlet drainage/insertion of a tube.
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| show | incision Incision means cutting into.
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| -pexy | show 🗑
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| show | surgical repair or reshaping by surgery
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| show | suturing Suturing means stitching.
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| -tripsy | show 🗑
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| -gram | show 🗑
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| -graphy | show 🗑
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| show | instrument for measuring
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| -metry | show 🗑
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| -scope | show 🗑
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| -scopy | show 🗑
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| show | cutting instrument
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| constructed terms | show 🗑
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| show | - words of Greek or Latin origin
- modern terms
-named for function, such as brain scan, skin graft and blood test
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| show | terms that are named after the person who first identified the condition, described the procedure or devised the object. They usually, but not always, begin with a capital letter.
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| show | abbreviations that are pronounceable words formed from the first letter of several terms
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| show | - combining vowels are usually "o"
- they function in making a long medical term easier to pronounce
- they are only used between a word root and suffix if the suffix begins in a consonant
- they are always used between two word roots
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| -ac | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| -an | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| show | pertaining to
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| -atic | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| show | pertaining to
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| -ic | show 🗑
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| -ical | show 🗑
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| -ile | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| -ior | show 🗑
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| -ory | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| show | pertaining to
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| -tic | show 🗑
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| show | pain
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| show |
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| 3. -dynia | show 🗑
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| show | excision
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| 5. -gen | show 🗑
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| show | producing (adding this suffix creates an adjective)
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| 7. -gram | show 🗑
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| 8. -ia | show 🗑
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| 9. -itis | show 🗑
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| 10. -logist | show 🗑
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| 11. -logy | show 🗑
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| show | enlargement
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| show | instrument for measuring
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| show | tumor or mass
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| show | incision
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| show | disease
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| 17. -pexy | show 🗑
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| 18. -plasty | show 🗑
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| show | drooping
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| 20. -scope | show 🗑
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| 21. -scopy | show 🗑
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| 22. -rrhaphy | show 🗑
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| show | discharge or flow
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| 24. -therapy | show 🗑
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