Diagnostic/Therapeutic Flashcards
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medic/o
A
medicine, medical treatment
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Iatr/o; -iatry
A
medicine/physician; medical treatment
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therap/o, therapeut/o, -therapy
A
treatment
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pharmac/o, pharmaceutic/o
A
drug, medicine
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diet/o
A
food
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chirurgic/o
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surgery
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log/o; -logy
A
word, speech; study of
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nom/o; -nomy
A
law, custom; knowledge/laws of
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physi/o
A
nature, growth, function
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techn/o
A
art, skill
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erg/o; -ergasia
A
work, function
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san/o, sanit/o
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health
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hygien/o, hygiein/o
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health
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anthrop/o
A
human
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hom/o, homin/o
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human
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idi/o
A
individual, distinct
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dem/o
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people
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ethn/o
A
race, culture
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gen/o
A
hereditary, race, kind, gene
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andr/o
A
male, masculine, flower stamen
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viril/o
A
male, masculine
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gyn/o, gynec/o
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female, feminine, flower ovary
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femin/o
A
female, feminine
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ped/o
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child
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pueril/o
child
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ger/o, geront/o
elderly, old age
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presby/o
elderly, old age
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sen/o, senil/o
elderly, old age
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gnos/o, -gnosia, -gnosis
a knowing, knowledge
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etio/o, aeti/o
cause
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esthesi/o, -esthesia
sensation, feeling
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morb/o
disease
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nos/o
disease
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path/o, -pathy; -path
disease, feeling, suffering; one affected by a disease, one who treats a disease
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mort/o
death
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thanat/o, -thanasia
death
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necr/o
dead body, dead
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febr/o
fever
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pyr/o; pyret/o
fever, fire; fever
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hem/o, hemat/o; -emia, -hemia
blood; condition of blood
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poly-
many
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multi-
many
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cal/o
heat
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rubr/o
red, redness
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erythr/o
red, redness (red blood cells)
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tum/o
swelling, tumor, abnormal mass
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onc/o, -oncus
swelling, tumor, abnormal mass
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edemat/o, -edema
swelling
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troph/o, -trophy
nourishment, growth
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tabet/o
wasting
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cel/o, kel/o, -cele
hernia, protrusion
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cyt/o
cell
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cell/o, cellul/o
cell
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cancer/o; cancr/o
cancer, crab; spreading ulcer
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carcin/o
cancer, crab
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mal/o; malign/o
bad, faulty; cancerous, becoming worse
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kak/o, cac/o
bad, faulty
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phlog/o
inflammation
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dolor/o
pain
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noc/o, noxi/o
pain
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alg/o
-algia
-algesia
pain
painful condition
sense of pain
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odyn/o
-odynia
pain
painful condition
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acu/o
acut/o
needle, needlelike
sharp, pointed
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oxy/o
-oxia
sharp, quick, acid, oxygen
oxygen condition
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chrno/o
time (prolonged)
65
pur/o, purul/o
pus
66
py/o
pus
67
rhe/o
-rrhea
flow
discharge (of fluid)
68
-rhexis
rupture
69
-rrhagia, -rrhage
rhagad/o
rupture with discharge of fluid (usually blood)
tear, fissure, cleft
70
-penia
decrease, deficiency
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mega-, megal/o, -megaly
enlargement, large
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micr/o
small
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lys/o, -lysis
breakdown, dissolving
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malac/o, -malacia
soft, abnormal softening
75
-ptosis
downward, displacement, prolapse
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-ectasis, -ectasia
dilation, expansion
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schiz/o, -schisis
splitting, cleft
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stas/o, stat/o, -stasis; -stat
standing, stoppage, cause to stand
device for stopping/ceasing something
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poiet/o, -poiesis
to make, produce
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plast/o
-plast
-plasia
formed, molded
forming cell or organelle
condition of formation, growth
81
fac/o, fic/o, fact/o, fect/o
to make, cause
82
gen/o, -gen
to become, be produced
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graph/o
-graph
-graphy
writing
device for image/written record or record itself
process of recording/writing
84
grammat/o
-gram
something written/drawn
record/image of something
85
metr/o
-meter
-metry
measure, measurement
measuring instrument
process of measuring
86
-tomy
-ectomy
-tome
incision
excision
device for making an incision
87
-stomy
surgical creation of an opening (stoma)
88
-plasty
surgical reconstruction
89
-rrhaphy
surgical suturing
90
-pexy
surgical fixation
91
-tripsy
crushing
92
-scopy
-scope
examination (with device)
device to examine body
93
-desis
surgical binding, fusion
94
-centesis
surgical puncture for aspiration
95
-section
cutting
96
-clasty
surgical breaking
97
-trypesis
surgical boring/hole
98
tom/o
cut, a section
99
stom/o, stomat/o
mouth, opening
100
pex/o, -pexis
fixation, binding
101
rhaph/o
rhaphid/o
seam, suture
needle, needle-like
102
clast/o
-clast
-clasis, -clasia
broken, breaking
break of things
breaking of something
103
scop/o
to view
104
secto/o, sec/o
cut, a section
105
cis/o, -cide
kill, cut
106
tript/o
crushing, grinding
107
trepan/o, trephin/o
trypan/o
borer, drilling
borer; parasitic protozoa genus
