Medical Terminology (1) Flashcards
(64 cards)
1
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cardio/o
A
heart
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dermat/o
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skin
3
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esthesi/o
A
feeling or sensation
4
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gynec/o
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female
5
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immune/o
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immune
6
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ne/o, nat/o
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new, birth
7
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opthalim/o
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eye
8
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path/o
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disease
9
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radi/o
A
radiation or radius
10
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ur/o
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urinary tract or urine
11
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-centisis
A
surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid
12
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-ectomy
A
excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
13
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-lysis
A
process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
14
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-pexy
A
surgical fixation (securing in a fixed position)
15
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-plasty
A
surgical repair
16
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-rrhaphy
A
suture (fusing a wound by stitches)
17
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-scopy
A
visual examination with the use of a lighted instrumentation
18
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-stomy
A
creation of an opening
19
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-tome
A
an instrument used for cutting
20
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-tomy
A
incision (cutting into tissue)
21
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-tripsy
A
surgical crushing, breaking, or pulverizing.
22
Q
aden/o
A
gland
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angi/o
A
vessel
24
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bi/o
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life or living
25
biephar/o
eyelid
26
cerebr/o
brain
27
encephal/o
brain
28
col/o
colon or large intestine
29
faci/o
face
30
hepat/o
liver
31
mamm/o
breast
32
mast/o
breast
33
muscul/o
muscle
34
my/o
muscle
35
myel/o
bone marrow or spinal cord
36
oste/o
bone
37
pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o
lungs
38
tonsil/o
tonsil
39
trache/o
trachea (windpipe)
40
vas/o
vessel
41
-algia, -dynia
pain
42
-cele
hernia (results when organ pushes through the organ or muscle that contains it)
43
-ectasia, -ectasis
dilation
44
-edema
swelling
45
-emesis
vomiting
46
-emia
condition of the blood
47
-ia, -iasis
condition
48
-itis
inflammation
49
-ith
stone or calculus
Example: Fecalith is a hard mass consisting of feces
50
-malacia
soft. softening
51
-mania
excessive preoccupation
52
-megaly
enlargement
53
-oid
resembling
54
-oma
tumor
55
-osis
condition (usually an abnormal condition, occasionally refers to an increase)
56
-pathy
disease
57
-penia
deficiency
58
-phobia
abnormal fear
59
-ptosis
prolapse (sagging)
60
-rrhage, -rrhagia
excessive bleeding
61
-rrhea
flow or discharge
62
-rrhexis
rupture
63
-spasm
cramp, twitching
64
-stasis
stopping, controlling
