chapter 2 & 3 Flashcards by Campbell Brandt

-er, -ist

One who

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-iatrician

practitioner

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-logist

One who studies; specialist

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-ac, -al, -ic, ical

Pertaining to

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-logic, -logical

Pertaining to the study of

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-iatrics, -iatry

Medical profession or treatment

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-logy

Study or science of

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cardi/o

heart

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crin/o

To secrete

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dermat/o

skin

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esthesi/o

Feeling or sensation

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Gastr/o enter/o

Stomach, intestines

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Ger/a ger/o geront/o

elderly

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gynec/o

female

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immun/o

immune

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Ne/o Nat/o

New, birth

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neur/o

nerve

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obstetr/o

midwife

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onc/o

tumor

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opthalm/o

eye

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Orth/o ped/o

Straight, child (sometimes foot)

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Ot/o laryng/o

Ear, larynx

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path/o

disease

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ped/o

child

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psych/o

mind

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radi/o

radiation

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rheumat/o

rheumatism

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rhin/o

nose

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ur/o

Urinary tract

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pathology

Study of diseases

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intensivists

Take care of patients in intensive care

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epidemiologist

Studies the prevention and control of disease

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-centesis

Surgical puncture to aspiate or remove fluid

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-ectomy

Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

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-lysis

Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

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-pexy

Surgical fixation

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-plasty

Surgical repair

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-rrhaphy

suture

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-scopy

Visual examination with a lighted

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-stomy

Formation of an opening

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-tome

An instrument used for cutting

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-tomy

incision

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-tripsy

Surgical crushing

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aden/o

gland

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angi/o

vessel

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append/o

appendix

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bi/o

Life or living

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blephar/o

eyelid

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Cerebr/o encephal/o

brain

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chir/o

hand

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col/o

Colon or large intestine

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Cutane/o, derm/a, dermat/o

skin

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faci/o

face

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hepat/o

liver

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mamm/o

breasts

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muscul/o

muscle

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myel/o

Bone marrow or spinal cord

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oste/o

bone

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pulm/o

lungs

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tonsill/o

tonsil

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trache/o

trachea

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vas/o

vessel

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-algia -dynia

pain

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-cele

hernia

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-ectasia –ectasis

Dialation

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-edema

swelling

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-emesis

vomitting

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-emia

Condition of the blood

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-ia

condition

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-itis

inflammation

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-lith

Stone or calculus

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-malacia

Soft, softening

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-mania

Excessive production

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-megaly

enlargement

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-oid

resembling

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-oma

tumor

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-osis

condition

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-pathy

disease

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-penia

defficiency

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-phobia

Abnormal fear

-ptosis

prolapse

-rrhage

Excessive bleeding

-rrhea

Flow or discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-spasm

Twitching, cramp

-stasis

Stopping, conditioning

-able, -ible

Capable of, able to

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

Pertaining to

-ase

enzyme

-eum

membrane

-ia, -ism

Condition or theory

-iac

One who suffers

-opia

vision

-ose

sugar

-ous

Pertaining to or characterized by

-y

State or condition

Adip/o

fat

amyl/o

starch

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood

lact/o

milk

lith/o

stone

Micro-

small

muc/o

mucus

prote/o

protein

pyr/o

fire

Mono- uni-

one

Bi- di -

two

Tri-

three

Quad-

four

Centi-

One hundred

Milli-

One thousandth

Diplo-

double

Hemi- semi-

Half, partly

Hyper-

Excessive, more than normal

Hypo-

Under, less than normal

Multi-, poly

many

nulli

none

Pan-

all

Primi-

first

Super, ultra-

excessive

Ab-

Away from

Ad-

toward

Ante- pre-

Before in time or in place

Circum- peri-

around

Contra-

Against or opposed

Dia-

through

Ecto-

Outside, without, away from

En-

inside

Epi-

Above, on

Hypo-

Beneath under

Inter-

between

Intra-

within

Ipsi-

same

Meso-

middle

Para-

Near, besides, or abnormal

Per-

Through or by

Post-

After, behind

Retro-

Behind, backward

Super-, supra-

Above, beyond

Sym-, syn-

Joined together

Trans-

across

Anti-, contra-

against

Brady-

slow

Dys-

Bad, difficult

Eu-

Good normal

Mal-

Bad, abnormal

Pro-

Favoring, supporting

Tachy-

fast

Ante-

before

Post-

After behind

Macro-

Large or great

Micro-

small

a-, an-

No, not, without

In- non-

Not or inside

Alb/o

white

chlor/o

green

cyan/o

blue

erythr/o

red

melan/o

black

xanth/o

yellow

cyt/o

cell

Gen/o

beginning

gram/o

To record

kinesi/o

Movement, motion

leps/o

seizure

lys/o

destruction

malac/o

-malacia

megal/o

Large, enlarged

metr/o

measure

path/o

disease

phag/o

Eat, ingest

phas/o

speech

pleg/o

Paralysis

schis/o

Split, cleft

scler/o

Hard, hardening

scop/o

To examine

troph/o

nutrition

aer/o

air

blast/o

Embryonic form

cancer/o

cancer

cephal/o

head

cry/o

cold

crypt/o

hidden

dips/o

thirst

electr/o

electricity

fibr/o

fiber

hist/o

tissue

myc/o

function

narc/o

stupor

Necr/o

dead

optic/o

vision

phon/o

voice

phot/o

light

py/o

pus

therm/o

heat

top/o

position

trache/o

trachea