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a-
without
-ac
pertaining to
aden/o
gland
adip/o
fat
-al
pertaining to
-algesia
sensitivity to pain
-algia
pain
angi/o
blood vessel
ankyl/o
stiff
ante-
before
anter/o
front
anti-
against
arter/o
front
arthro
joint
articulo
joint
-ase
enzyme
ather/o
fatty plaque
aur/o
ear
auto-
self
axill/o
armpit
bi-
two
bi/o
life
-blast
immature
blephar/o
eyelid
brady-
slow
bucc/o
cheek
carcin/o
cancer
cardi/o
heart
-cele
hernia
cephal/o
head
-cide
killing
-clast
to break
colp/o
vagina
contra-
against
crani/o
skull
-crit
to separate
cyan/o
blue
eu-
good; normal
gastr/o
stomach
-genesis
forming
gest/o
pregnancy
-globin
protein
gloss/o
tongue
gluc/o
glucose, sugar
-gram
recording
hem/o
blood
hemi-
half
hepat/o
liver
hist/o
tissue
hydr/o
water
hyper-
above; excessive
hyp/o
deficient
hyster/o
uterus
-iasis
abnormal condition
infra-
below
inter-
between
intra-
within
jaund/o
yellow
kines/o
movement
lact/o
milk
-lapse
to sag
later/o
side
leuk/o
white
lip/o
fat
lith/o
stone
-lithiasis
condition of stones
-logy
study of
-lysis
to break down
macro-
large
mal-
bad
-malacia
softening
mast/o
breast
medi/o
middle
mega-
large
para
near; beside
path/o
disease
-penia
deficiency
-pepsia
digestion
per-
through
peri-
surrounding
-pexy
fixation
-phagia
eating
phleb/o
vein
-plasty
repair
-plegia
paralysis
-pnea
breathing
-poiesis
formation
poly-
many
post-
after
-prandial
meal
pre-
before
proxim/o
near
prurit/o
itching
pseudo/o
True
False
false
-ptosis
drooping; sagging
py/o
pus
pyel/o
renal pelvis
pyr/o
fever
quadric-
four
ren/o
kidney
-rrhage
excessive flow
-rrhea
flow
-sclerosis
hardening
-scope
instrument to view
semi-
half
somat/o
body
spl/o
spleen
-stasis
to stop
-stenosis
tightening
somat/o
mouth
cyst/o
urinary bladder
cyt/o
cell
-derma
skin
dipl/o
double
dors/o
back
-dynia
pain
dys-
painful; abnormal
-ectasia
dilation, stretching
-ectomy
excision
-emesis
vomiting
-emia
blood condition
encephal/o
brain
endo-
within
enter/o
small intestine
eosin/o
red
epi-
above
erythem/o
flushed; red
-esis
condition
-megaly
enlargement
morph/o
shape
my/o
muscle
necr/o
death
neo-
new
nephr/o
kidney
neur/o
nerve
odyn/o
pain
olig/o
scanty; small; few
-oma
tumor; mass
onych/o
nail
oophor/o
ovary
ophthalm/o
eye
orch/o
testis
orth/o
straight
oste/o
bone
ot/o
ear
pan-
all
-stomy
new opening
sub-
under
supra-
above
tachy-
fast
thorac/o
chest
thromb/o
clot
-tomy
cutting
tax/o
poison
trans-
across; through
-tresia
opening
tri-
three
-tripsy
to crush
ur/o
urine
varic/o
varicose veins
vascul/o
vascular
ventr/o
front
viscer/o
internal organs
vit/o
life
Author
NikkiRamirez
ID
162635
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Medical Assisting
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Updated
7/16/2012, 3:35:46 AM
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