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Agia

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pain, suffering

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Dys

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Bad, Difficult, or painful

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Ectomy

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Surgical removal, cutting out

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Hyper

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Excessive, increased

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Hypo

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Deficient , decreased

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Itis

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Inflammation

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osis

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abnormal condition, disease

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Ostomy

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the surgical creation of an Artificial opening to the body surface

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otomy

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cutting surgical incision

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Platsty

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Surgical repair

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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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rrhea

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flow or discharge

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rrhexis

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rupture

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sclerosis

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abnormal hadening

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word root

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contains the basic meaning of the term.in medical terminology, this word party usually, but not always, indicates the involved body part. for example, the word root meaning stomach is GASTR-

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combining form

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The combining form of the word root gastr is gastr/o

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suffixes as noun endings

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-a, -um, -y, -e, -us

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suffixes meaning “pertaining to”

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  • ac
  • eal
  • for
  • al
  • ical
  • ory
  • an
  • ial
  • ous
  • ar
  • ic
  • tic
  • ary
  • ine
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suffixes meaning “abnormal condition”

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  • ago
  • iasis
  • osis
  • esis
  • ion
  • ia
  • ism
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prefixes describing direction, quantity, size, and amount

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ab- away from, negative absent 
dextr/o right side
ex- out of, outside, away from
Marco- large, abnormal 
mega-, megal/o large, great
pre- before 
ad- toward, to, in the direction of
sinistr/o left side 
in- in, into, not, without 
micr/o, micro- small 
olig/o scanty, few
post- after, behind
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Infection and inflammation

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Although the suffix “ -itis” means inflammation
meningitis (mening means the meninges and -itis means inflammation)
tendinitis (tendin means tendon and -itis means inflammation)
An infection is the invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism

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Examples of “do not use” Abbreviations

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MS - can mean either morphine sulfate or magnesium sulfate
QD & QOD - mean daily and every other day, respectively; sometimes mistaken for each other
U - means unit, sometimes mistaken for 0 or 4.

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Adip/o

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Fat

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Anter/o

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Front

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gland

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Aden/o

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-ologist

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specialist

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ology

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study of

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cyt/o

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cell

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cephal/o

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head

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caud/o

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lower part of the body

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exo-

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out of

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endo-

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within

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poster/o

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back

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-path/o

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disease, suffering emotion

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hist/o

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tissue

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above the stomach

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epigastric region

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belly button area

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umbilical region

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below the ribs

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hypochondriac

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below the stomach

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hypogastric region

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hip bone area

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Umbilical region

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