Chapter 2 Body Structure Flashcards by Michelle O

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Cancer/carcin/o

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Cancer, a disease characterized by the unregulated, abnormal growth of new cells

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Eti/o

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Cause (of disease)

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Gno/o

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Knowledge

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Iatr/o

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Physician, medicine, treatment

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Lei/o

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Smooth

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Onc/o

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Tumor, mass

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Path/o

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Disease

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Rhabd/o

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Rod shaped, striated

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Somat/o

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Body

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Dia

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Through, conplete

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Dys

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Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored to

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Hyper

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Above, excessive

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Hypo

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Below, incomplete, deficient, under

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Meta

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Change, after, beyond

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Neo

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New

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Pro

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Before

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Chlor/o

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Green

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Xanth/o

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Yellow

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Leuk

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White

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Chrom/o

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Color

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Erythro/o

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Red

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Melan/o

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Black

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Cyan/o

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Blue

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Al, ic, ous

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Pertaining to

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Cyte

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Cell

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Gen

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Agent that produces or causes

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Genic

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Producing or causing, originating

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Logist

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One who studies and treats

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Megaly

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Irregular enlargement

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Oid

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Resembling

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Oma

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Tumor, swelling

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Osis

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Abnormal condition

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Pathy

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Disease

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Plasia

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Condition of formation, development, growth

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Plasm

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Growth, substance, formation

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Sarcoma

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Malignant tumor

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Sis

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State of

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Stasis

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Control, stop, standing

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Cytogenic

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Producing cells

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Cytoid

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Resembling a cell

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Cytology

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Study of cells

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Cytoplasm

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Cell substance

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Dysplasia

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Abnormal development

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Epithelial

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Pertaining to epithelium

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Erythrocyte

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Red blood cells

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Erthrocytosis

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Increase in number of red blood cells

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Histrology

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Study of tissue

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Hyperplasia

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Excessive development

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Hypolasia

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Incomplete development

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Karyocyte

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Cell within a nucleus

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Karyoplasm

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Substance of a nucleus

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Leukocyte

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White blood cell

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Leukocytosis

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Increase in the number of white blood cells

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Lipoid

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Resembling fat

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Myopathy

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Disease of the muscle

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Neuroid

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Resembling a nerve

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Organomegaly

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Enlargement of an organ

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Somatic

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Pertaining to the body

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Somatogenic

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Originating in the body

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Somatopathy

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Disease of the body

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Somatoplasm

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Body substance

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Systemic

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Pertaining to a body system, or the body as a whole

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Visceral

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Pertaining to internal organs