Chap 1; Terns Flashcards
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Arthr/o
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Joint
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Aden/o
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Gland
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Bi/o
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Life
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Carcin/o
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Cancerous, cancer
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Cardi/o
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Heart
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Cephal/o
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Head
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Cerebr/o
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Cerebrum ( largest part of the brain)
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Cis/o
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To cut
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Crin/o
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To secrete (to form and give off)
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Cyst/o
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Urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
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Cyt/o
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Cell
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Derm/o
Dermat/o
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Skin
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Electr/o
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Electricity
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Encephal/o
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Brain
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Enter/o
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Intestines (usually the small intestine)
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erythr/o
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Red
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gastr/o
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Stomach
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glyc/o
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Sugar
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gnos/o
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Knowledge
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gynec/o
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Woman, female
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hemat/o
hem/o
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Blood
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hepat/o
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Liver
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iatr/o
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Treatment, physician
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Leuk/o
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White
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log/o
Study of
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nephr/o
Kidney
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neur/o
Nerve
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onc/o
tumor
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ophthalm/o
Eye
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oste/o
Bone
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path/o
Disease
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ped/o
Child
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psych/o
mind
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radi/o
x-rays
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ren/o
kidney
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rhin/o
nose
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sarc/o
flesh
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sect/o
to cut
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thromb/o
clot, clotting
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ur/o
urinary tract, urine
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- ac
| - al
pertaining to
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-algia
pain
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-ctye
cell
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-ectomy
excision, removal
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-emia
blood condition
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-genic
pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
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-globin
protein
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-gram
record
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-ic, -ical
pertaining to
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-ion
process
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-ist
specialist
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--itis
inflammation
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-logy
process of study
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-oma
tumor, mass, swelling
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-opsy
process of viewing
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-osis
condition, usually abnormal
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-pathy
disease condition
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-scope
instrument to visually examine
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-scopy
process of visually examining
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-sis
state of; condition
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-tomy
process of cutting, incision
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-y
process, condition
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a-
| an-
no, not, without
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aut-
| auto-
self, own
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dia-
complete, through
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-endo
within
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epi-
above, upon
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ex-
| exo-
out, outside of, outward
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hyper-
excessive, above, more then normal
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hypo-
deficient, below, under, less then normal
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in-
into, in
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peri-
surrounding, around
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pro-
before, forward
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re-
back, backward, again
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retro-
behind
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sub-
below, under
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trans-
across, through
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word beginnings are called
prefixs
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word endings are called
suffix
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the foundation of a word is known as the
root
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a letter linking a suffix and a root, or linking two roots, in a term is the
combing vowel