Chapter 1- Intro to Med Term Flashcards
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Slcerosis-
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Abnormal hardening
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-ectomy
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Surgical removal, cutting out
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-centesis
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A surgical puncture to remove fluid for diagnostic purposes or to remove excess fluid
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Word Root
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Indicates the involved body part
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-algia
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Pain, suffering
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Cyan/o
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Blue
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Prefix
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Location, time, number, and status
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-necrosis
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Tissue death
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-malacia
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Abnormal softening
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-stenosis
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Abnormal narrowing
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Oste/o
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Bone
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Poli/o
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Gray
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-scopy
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Visual examination
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Myel/o
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Spinal Cord
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-rrhage
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Bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge
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-rrhaphy
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Surgical suturing
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Suffixes meaning “Pertaining to”
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- ac
- al
- an
- ar
- ary
- eal
- ical
- ial
- ic
- ine
- ior
- ory
- ous
- tic
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Suffixes meaning “abnormal condition”
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- ago
- esis
- ia
- iasis
- ion
- ism
- osis
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hypo-
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Deficient, decreased
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hyper-
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Excessive, increased
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-rrhea
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Flow or discharge
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Suffixes as noun endings
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- a
- e
- um
- us
- y
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-otomy
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Cutting, surgical incision
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-itis
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Inflammation
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my/o
Muscle
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arthr/o
Joint
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-ostomy
The surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface
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Suffix
Procedure, condition, disorder, or disease
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-plasty
Surgical repair
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-megaly
Enlargement
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neur/o
Nerve
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erythr/o
Red
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leuk/o
White
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-rrhexis
Rupture
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-osis
Abnormal condition, disease
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dys-
Bad, difficult, or painful
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-dynia
Pain
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-graphy
Producing a picture or record
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-gram
Picture or record
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melan/o
Black
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myc/o
Fungus
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-ologist
Specialist
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-ology
The study of
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pyel/o
Renal pelvis(part of the kidney)
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py/o
Pus
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pyr/o
Fever or fire
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-a plural
-ae
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-ex or -ix plural
-ices
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-is plural
-es
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-itis plural
-ides
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-nx plural
-ges
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-on plural
-a
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-us plural
-i
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ad-
Toward
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ab-
Away from
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Sinister/o
Left side
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dextr/o
Right side
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ex-
Out of, outside, away from
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in-
In, into, not, without
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macro-
Large, abnormal size, long
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micr/o, micro-
small
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mega-, megal/o
Large, great
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olig/o
Scanty, few
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pre-
Before
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post-
After, behind
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eu-
Good, normal, well or easy
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inter-
Between or among
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intra-
Within or inside
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sub-
under, less, below
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super-, supra-
Above or excessive
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peri-
Surrounding
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-al
Pertaining to
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-derma
Skin
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vir
Virus or poison
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Sign
Objective evidence of disease.
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Diagnosis
Identification of a disease.
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Acute Condition
As a rapid onset, severe course, and a relatively short duration.
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Disease
Condition in which one or more body parts are not functioning normally.
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Symptom
Subjective evidence of a disease.
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Differential Diagnosis
An attempt to determine Which one of several possible diseases is causing the signs and symptoms.
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Chronic
A condition that has a long duration. Although such diseases can be controlled, they can rarely be cured.
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Eponym
A disease, structure, operation, or procedure named after the person who discovered or described it.
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Syndrome
A set of signs and symptoms that occur together as part of a specific disease process.
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Prognosis
A prediction of the probable cause and outcome of a disease.
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Remission
The temporary, partial, or complete disappearance of the symptoms of as disease.
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Acronym
A word formed from the initial letter of the major parts of a compound term.
