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Intro To Medical Terminology

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The suffix begins with a vowel.   Do not use a combining vowel.  
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The suffix begins with a consonant.   Use a combining vowel.  
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Two root words are combined.   Use a combining vowel.  
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Gland   Aden/o  
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Cancer   Carcin/o  
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Heart   Cardi/o  
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Chemical   Chem/o  
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To Cut   Cis/o  
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Skin   Dermat/o  
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Small Intestine   Enter/o  
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Stomach   Gastr/o  
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Female   Gynec/o  
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Blood   Hemat/o  
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Water   Hydr/o  
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Immune   Immun/o  
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Voice Box   Laryng/o  
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Shape   Morph/o  
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Kidney   Nephr/o  
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Nerve   Neur/o  
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Eye   Ophthalm/o  
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Ear   Ot/o  
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Disease   Path/o  
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Lung   Pulmon/o  
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Nose   Rhin/o  
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Urine   Ur/o  
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Without   A-  
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Without   An-  
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Before   Ante-  
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Against   Anti-  
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Self   Auto-  
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Slow   Brady-  
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Painful   Dys-  
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Within   Endo-  
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Upon   Epi-  
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Normal   Eu-  
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Different   Hetero-  
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Same   Homo-  
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Over, Above   Hyper-  
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Under, Below   Hypo-  
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Between   Inter-  
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Inside   Intra-  
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Large   Macro-  
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Small   Micro-  
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New   Neo-  
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All   Pan-  
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Beside, Beyond, Near   Para-  
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Through   Per-  
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Around   Peri-  
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After   Post-  
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Before   Pre-  
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Backward, Behind   Retro-  
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Below   Sub  
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Above   Super-  
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Above   Supra-  
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Fast   Tachy-  
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Through   Trans-  
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Two   Bi-  
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Half   Hemi-  
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One   Mono-  
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Many   Multi-  
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None   Nulli-  
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Many   Poly-  
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Four   Quad-  
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Partial, Half   Semi-  
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Three   Tri-  
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One   Uni-  
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Pain   -Algia  
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Hernia   -Cele  
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Cut   -Cis  
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Cell   -Cyte  
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Pain   -Dynia  
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Dilation   -Ectasis  
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That which produces   -gen  
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Produces, generates   -genesis  
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Producing, produced by   -genic  
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State, condition   -ia  
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Abnormal condition   -iasis  
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State of   -ism  
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Inflammation   -itis  
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One who studies   -logist  
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Study of   -logy  
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Destruction   -lysis  
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Abnormal Softening   -malacia  
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Enlargement   -megaly  
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Tumor Mass   -oma  
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Abnormal Condition   -osis  
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Disease   -pathy  
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Development   -plasia  
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Formation, Development   -plasm  
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Drooping   -ptosis  
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Excessive, Abnormal Flow   -rrhage  
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Discharge, Flow   -rrhea  
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Rupture   -rrhexis  
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Hardening   -sclerosis  
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Narrowing   -stenosis  
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Treatment   -therapy  
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Development   -trophy  
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