Medical Terminology Flashcards
Understanding medical terms (64 cards)
1
Q
Card/Cardio
A
Heart
2
Q
Cyst
A
Bladder
3
Q
Hepat
A
Liver
4
Q
Hema/Hemat
A
Blood
5
Q
My/Myo
A
Muscle
6
Q
Pector/thoraco
A
Chest
7
Q
Neuro
A
Nerve
8
Q
Pneumo
A
Lungs
9
Q
Ocu
A
Eyes
10
Q
Derma
A
Skin
11
Q
Mast
A
Breast
12
Q
Osteo
A
Bone
13
Q
Esophago
A
Esophagus
14
Q
Neph/Nephro
A
Kidney
15
Q
Oto
A
Ear
16
Q
Cervic
A
Neck
17
Q
Cephalo
A
Head
18
Q
Broncho
A
Bronchus/Bronchial
19
Q
Cyano
A
Blue
20
Q
A/An
A
Without
21
Q
Aut
A
Self
22
Q
Bi
A
Two
23
Q
Brady
A
Slow
24
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Dia
A
Through
25
Endo
Within
26
Exo
Out
27
Hyper
Too much/Above
28
Hypo
Too little/Below
29
Inter
Between
30
Intra
Inside/Into
31
Media
Middle
32
Norma
Normal
33
Pre
Prior to
34
Peri
Around
35
Post
After
36
Pro
Before
37
Retro
Behind
38
Semi
Half
39
Trans
side to side
40
Hemi
One sided/Half
41
- Cyte/Cyto
Cell
42
- Spasm
Involuntary muscular contraction
43
- Stasis
Stopping or Ceasing
44
- Stenosis
Constricting or narrowing
45
- Toxic
Poisonous
46
- Uria
Dealing with urine
47
- Centesis
Sterile procedure to remove fluid from a body cavity
48
- Ectomy
Surgical Removal Of
49
- Graphy
Diagnostic procedure/Obtaining images
50
- Gram/Graph
Written recording used for diagnostics
51
- Plasty
Reconstructive procedure
52
- Scopy
Visualizing an organ with an instrument
53
- Stomy
Surgical opening
54
- Otomy
To cut
55
- Algia
Pain
56
- Dynia
Pertaining to pain
57
- Emesis
Vomiting
58
- Ism
Indicates a condition of
59
- Itis
Inflammation or Infection
60
- Megaly
Abnormal enlargement
61
- Osis
Abnormal condition or state of
62
- Opathy
Disease or Dysfunction
63
- Rrhea
Excessive flow of a bodily discharge
64
- Rrhage
Abnormally excessive flow of
