Beginning Flashcards by Taja Peterson

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Aden

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gland

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Arthr

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Joint

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Bi

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Life

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Carcin

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cancerous

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Cardi

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Heart

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Cephal

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Head

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Cerebr

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largest part of brain

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Cis

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to cut

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Crin

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to secrete

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Cyst

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Urinary bladder or sac or cyst

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Cyt

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Cell

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Skin

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derm or dermat

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intestines

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enter

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electrical

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electr

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brain

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encephal

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red

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erythr

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stomach

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gastr

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sugar

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gly

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gnos

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knowledge

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female or woman

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gynec

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blood

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hemat or hem

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liver

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hepa

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treatment or physician

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iatr

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white

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leuk

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log

stufy of

nephr

kidney

onc

Tumor

Orphthalm

eye

oste

bone

Path

disease

ped

Child

psych

mind

radi

x rays

ren

kidney

sarc

flesh

sect

to cut

thromb

clot/clotting

ur

urinary tract

suffix for pertaining to

-ac or -al or -ic- or -ical

suffix for pain

-algia

suffix for cell

-cyte

suffix meaning to remove or excision

-ectomy

suffix meaning blood condition

-emia

suffixes meaning produced by

-genic

suffix meaning protein

-globin

suffix meaning record

-grams

suffix meaning process

-ion

what does the suffix -ist mean?

specialist

what does the suffix -itis mean?

inflammation

what does the suffix -logy mean?

process of study

what does the suffix -oma mean?

tumor, mass, swelling

what does the suffix -opsy mean?

process of viewing

what does the suffix -osis mean?

abnormal condition

-pathy

disease condition

what does the suffix -scope mean?

instrument to visually examine

what does the suffix -scopy mean?

process of visually examining

what does the suffix -sis mean?

state of, condition

what does the suffix -tomy mean?

process of cutting

what does the suffix -y mean?

process, condition

prefixes: -a, an-

no, not, without

aut-, auto-

self or own

dia-

complete, through

endo-

within

epi-

above, upon

ex- exo-

out, outside of, outward

hyper-

excessive, above-normal

hypo-

deficient, below-normal

in-

into, in

peri-

surrounding, around

pro-

before, forward

re-

back, backward, again

retro-

behind

prefix for below or under

sub-

prefix for across, through

trans-