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epi/ dur/ al
epidural
- above/ dura mater/ pertaining to
- pertaining to above the dura mater
myel/ o/ mening/ o/ cele
myelomeningocele
- spinal cord/ cv/ membranes / cv/ hernia of
- hernia of spinal cord membranes
narc/ o/ lepsy
narcolepsy
- sleep/ cv/ seizure
- seizure sleep
hemi/ paresis
hemiparesis
- half/ weakness of
- weakness of half
hyper/ kinesis
hyperkinesis
- excessive/ movement
- excessive movement OR movement excessive
an/ esthes/ ia
anesthesia
- without/ feeling/ condition of
- condition without feeling
end/ arter/ ectomy
endarterectomy
- within/ artery/ excision of
- excision of within an artery
ather/ o/ scler/ osis
atherosclerosis
- yellowish plaque/ cv/ hardening/ abnormal condition of
- abnormal condition of yellowish plaque hardening
pericardi/ o/ centesis
pericardiocentesis
- pericardium/ cv/ surgical procedure to remove fluid
- surgical procedure to remove fluid from pericardium
thromb/ o/ lysis
thrombolysis
- clot/ cv/ destruction of clot
- destruction of clot
valvul/ o/ plasty
valvuloplasty
- valve/ cv/ surgical repair of
- surgical repair of valve
vas/ o/ dilation
vasodilation
- vessel/ cv/ expanding
- expanding vessel
bronch/ o/ spasm
bronchospasm
- bronchus/ cv/ sudden contraction of
- sudden contraction of bronchus
para/ nas/ al
paranasal
- near/ nose/ pertaining to
- pertaining to near the nose
ex/ pir/ ation
expiration
- out/ breathing/ process of
- process of out breathing
a/ tel/ ectasis
atelectasis
- without/ complete/ expansion
- expansion without complete (of alveoli)
hem/ o/ thorax
hemothorax
- blood/ cv/ chest
- chest blood
a/ sphyxia
asphyxia
- without/ pulse
- without pulse OR pulse without
coagul/ o/ pathy
coagulopathy
- clotting/ cv/ disease of
- disease of clotting
platelet/ pheresis
plateletpheresis
- platelet/ removal
- removal of platelet
erythr/ o/ poiesis
erythropoiesis
- red/ cv/ formation
- formation of red
aut/ o/ immune
autoimmune
- self/ cv/ protection
- protection self
lymphaden/ itis
lymphadenitis
- lymph node/ inflammation of
- inflammation of lymph node
ana/ phylaxis
anaphylaxis
- again/ protection
- protection again
inter/ stitial
interstitial
- between/ pertaining to standing
- pertaining to standing between
oste/ o/ malac/ ia
osteomalacia
- bone/ cv/ softening/ condition of
- condition of softening bone
de/ calc/ i/ fication
decalcification
- less/ calcium/ cv/ process of making
- process of making less calcium
spondyl/ o/ listhesis
spondylolisthesis
- vertebra/ cv/ slipping
- slipping vertebra
arthr/ o/ desis
arthrodesis
- joint/ cv/ to bind
- to bind joint
epi/ derm/ o/ lysis
epidermolysis
- upon/ skin/ cv/ destruction of
- destruction upon the skin
myos/ itis
myositis
- muscle/ inflammation of
- inflammation of muscle
rhabdomy/ oma
rhabdomyoma
- skeletal muscle/ tumor of
- tumor of skeletal muscle
electr/ o/ cautery
electrocautery
- electricity/ cv/ burn
- burn (with) electricity
sub/ ungu/ al
subungual
- below/ nail/ / pertaining to
- pertaining to below the nail
leiomy/ o/ sarc/ oma
leiomyosarcoma
- smooth muscle/ cv/ flesh/ tumor of
- tumor of smooth muscle flesh
an/ hidr/ osis
anhidrosis
- without/ sweat/ abnormal conditon of
- abnormal condition without sweat
trich/ o/ myc/ osis
trichomycosis
- hair/ cv/ fungus/ abnormal condition of
- abnormal condition of hair fungus
lip/ o/ suction
liposuction
- fat/ cv/ aspirate out
- aspirate out fat
hyper/ kal/ emia
hyperkalemia
- excessive/ potassium/ blood condition of
- blood condition of excessive potassium
gluc/ agon
glucagon
- sugar/ to assemble
- to assemble sugar
ster/ oid
steroid
- solid structure/ resembling
- resembling a solid structure
epi/ nephr/ ine
epinephrine
- above/ kidney/ a substance
- a substance above kidney
tri/ iod/ o/ thyron/ ine
triiodothryonine
- three/ iodine/ cv/ thyroid gland/ a substance
- a substance three iodine of thyroid gland
hypo/ phys/ ectomy
hypophysectomy
- below/ growing/ excision of
- excision of below growing

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MA 161

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Final Review Med Terms

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2011-08-11T05:47:51Z

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