LO 2.2 Flashcards
(68 cards)
1
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Suffix: algia
A
pain
2
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Suffix: arche
A
beginning
3
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Suffix: asthenia
A
weakness
4
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Suffix: blast
A
formative cell
5
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Suffix: cele
A
hernia, swelling, tumour, protrusion
6
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Suffix: cidal
A
to kill or destroy
7
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Suffix: cyte
A
cell
8
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Suffix: cytosis
A
abnormal increase in about of cells
9
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Suffix: dipsia
A
thirsty
10
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Suffix: dynia
A
painful
11
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Suffix: emesis
A
vomiting
12
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Suffix: emia
A
blood condition
13
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Suffix: esthesia
A
sensation
14
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Suffix: genic
A
origin, beginning, formation
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Suffix: itis
A
inflammation
16
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Suffix: malacia
A
softening
17
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Suffix: mania
A
maddness, obsession
18
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Suffix: megaly
A
enlargement
19
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Suffix: oma
A
tumour, swelling
20
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Suffix: paresis
A
slight paralysis
21
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Suffix: pathy
A
disease condition
22
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Suffix: penia
A
lack of, deficient
23
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Suffix: phobia
A
abnormal fear of
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Suffix: plegia
A
paralysis
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Suffix: pnea
air, breath
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Suffix: ptosis
drooping, sagging, downward displacement
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Suffix: ptysis
spitting
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Suffix: rrhage
rupture, profuse flow
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Suffix: rrhagia
rupture, profuse flow
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Suffix: rrhea
to flow, discharge
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Suffix: rrhexis
rupture
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Suffix: sclerosis
hardening
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Suffix: spasm
involuntary contraction
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Suffix: stasis
stopping or controlling flow (of fluid)
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Suffix: staxis
bursting forth, hemorrhage
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Suffix: stenosis
narrowing
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Suffix: taxia
coordination, order, arrangement
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Suffix: therapy
treatment
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Suffix: thorax
chest
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Suffix: tocia
labour, childbirth
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Suffix: trophy
nourishment
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Suffix: tropia
to turn
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Suffix: uria
urination, urine
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Suffix: xerosis
dryness
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Suffix: centesis
aspiration or puncture to remove liquid
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Suffix: clasis
to crush or break surgically
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Suffix: cleisis
closure
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Suffix: desis
binding, fixation
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Suffix: ectasis
Suffix: ectasia
dilation, expansion
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Suffix: ectomy
removal, excision
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Suffix: lysis
Suffix: lytic
break down; release; set free
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Suffix: pexy
surgical fixation
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Suffix: plasty
surgical repair or correction
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Suffix: rrhaphy
suture, repair
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Suffix: scope
instrument for viewing
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Suffix: scopy
visual examination with an instrument
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Suffix: stomy
to create a more of less permanent opening
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Suffix: tome
instrument for cutting
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Suffix: tomy
incision into; to incise
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Suffix: tripsy
to surgically crush or break
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Suffix: coccus
Suffix: cocci
spherical or ovoid bacterium
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Suffix: crine
to secrete
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Suffix: crit
to seperate
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Suffix: gram
record or tracing
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Suffix: graph
instrument for recording or tracing
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Suffix: metre
instrument to measure
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Suffix: phil
love, attraction
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Suffix: phoresis
transmission, to carry
