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1
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Crin/o

A

to secrete

2
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ur/o

A

urinary tract (sometime urine)

3
Q

rheumat/o

A

rheumatism

4
Q

trache/o

A

trachea or windpipe

5
Q

obstetr/o

A

midwife

6
Q

bi/o

A

life or living

7
Q

ped/o

A

child or sometimes foot

8
Q

blephar/o

A

eyelid

9
Q

onc/o

A

tumor

10
Q

cerebr/o

A

brain

11
Q

encephal/o

A

brain

12
Q

prote/o

A

protein

13
Q

chir/o

A

hand

14
Q

col/o

A

colon or large intestines

15
Q

ophthalm/o

A

eye

16
Q

vas/o

A

vessel; vas deferen

17
Q

amly/o

A

starch

18
Q

orth/o

A

straight

19
Q

neur/o

A

nerve

20
Q

radi/o

A

radiation or radius

21
Q

muc/o

A

mucus

22
Q

faci/o

A

face

23
Q

enter/o

A

intestines

24
Q

esthesi/o

A

feeling or sensation

25
Q

aden/o

A

gland

26
Q

gynec/o

A

female

27
Q

ger/a, ger/o, geront/o

A

eldery

28
Q

adip/o, lip/o

A

fat

29
Q

lith/o

A

stone

30
Q

nat/o

A

birth

31
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cutane/o, derm/o, derm/a, dermat/o

A

skin

32
Q

ot/o

A

ear

33
Q

pyr/o

A

fire

34
Q

myel/o

A

brain or spinal cord

35
Q

-ia, -ism

A

condition, theory

36
Q

-eum, -ium

A

membrane

37
Q

-ia, -iasis

A

condition

38
Q

-oid (forms adj and nouns)

A

resembling

39
Q

-algia, -dynia

A

pain

40
Q

-lysis

A

process of loosing, freeing, or destroying

41
Q

-y

A

state or condition

42
Q

-ptosis

A

prolapse or sagging

43
Q

-penia

A

deficiency

44
Q

-tomy

A

incision

45
Q

-oma

A

tumor

46
Q

-rrhexis

A

rupture

47
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-malacia

A

soft, softening

48
Q

-emesis

A

vomitting

49
Q

-ectasia, -ectasis

A

enlarging, stretching or dilatation

50
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-able, -ible

A

capable of, able to

51
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-cele

A

hernia, or protrusion

52
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-er, -ist

A

one who

53
Q

-stasis

A

stopping or controlling

54
Q

-osis

A

condition (often abnormal)

55
Q

-tripsy

A

surgical crushing

56
Q

-iatrics, -iatry

A

medical profression or treatment

57
Q

-rrhea

A

flow or discharge

58
Q

-tome

A

an instrument used for cutting

59
Q

-logic, -logical

A

pertaining to the study of

60
Q

-iac

A

one who suffers

61
Q

-pexy

A

a surgical fixation (in a fixed position)

62
Q

-emia

A

condition of the blood

63
Q

-opia

A

vision

64
Q

-ose

A

sugar

65
Q

-rrhaphy

A

suture

66
Q

-stomy

A

formation of an opening

67
Q

-iatrician

A

practioner

68
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-ous

A

pertaining to or characterized by

69
Q

-mania

A

excessive preoccupation

70
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-ac, -an, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ive, -tic

A

pertaining to

71
Q

-logist

A

one who studies or specializes

72
Q

-rrhage, -rrhagia

A

excessive bleeding or hemorrhaging

73
Q

OB

A

obstetrics

74
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pleg/o

A

paralysis

75
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gen/o

A

beginning, origin

76
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phag/o

A

eat, ingest

77
Q

chlor/o

A

green

78
Q

dips/o

A

thirst

79
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phon/o

A

voice

80
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cry/o

A

cold

81
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leps/o

A

seizure

82
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top/o

A

position, place

83
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scop/o

A

to examine or view

84
Q

xanth/o

A

yellow

85
Q

troph/o

A

nutrition

86
Q

aer/o

A

air

87
Q

blast/o

A

embryonic form

88
Q

phas/o

A

speech

89
Q

myc/o

A

fungus

90
Q

schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o

A

split, cleft

91
Q

megal/o

A

enlarged or large

92
Q

cyan/o

A

blue

93
Q

crypt/o

A

hidden

94
Q

melan/o

A

black

95
Q

alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o, leuc/o

A

white

96
Q

optic/o, opt/o

A

vision

97
Q

metr/o (sometimes metr/i)

A

measure or uterine tissue

98
Q

scler/o

A

hard

99
Q

necr/o

A

dead

100
Q

py/o

A

pus

101
Q

nacr/o

A

stupor

102
Q

malac/o

A

soft, softening

103
Q

per-

A

through or by

104
Q

sym- syn-

A

joined or together

105
Q

a-, an-

A

no, not, without

106
Q

eu-

A

good, normal

107
Q

inter-

A

between

108
Q

super- supra-

A

above, beyond

109
Q

dia-

A

through

110
Q

ab-

A

away from

111
Q

intra-

A

within

112
Q

super- ultra

A

excessive

113
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ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra-

A

out, away from, without

114
Q

para-

A

near, beside, abnormal

115
Q

ad-

A

toward

116
Q

ipsi-

A

same

117
Q

pan-

A

all

118
Q

in-

A

not or inside (in)

119
Q

nulli-

A

none

120
Q

-gram

A

record

121
Q

gram/o

A

to record

122
Q

-graph

A

instructument for recording

123
Q

-lysin

A

that which destroys

124
Q

-phasia

A

process of speech

125
Q

-genic

A

produced in or by

126
Q

therapeut/o

A

treatment

127
Q

tom/o

A

to cut

128
Q

plast/o

A

repair

129
Q

algesi/o

A

senstivity to pain

130
Q

fluor/o

A

emitting or reflecting light

131
Q

CT, CAT

A

computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, or computed axial tomography

132
Q

PET

A

positron emission tomography

133
Q

CPT

A

Current Procedural Terminology

134
Q

ICD

A

International Classification of Diseases

135
Q

wnl

A

within normal limits

136
Q

MRI

A

magnetic resonance imaging

137
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febrile

A

pertaining to a fever