Lab 1 - Med Terms Flashcards by Allie Fetzer

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Carcin/o

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Cancer

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Gastr/o

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Stomach

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Cyst/o

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Urinary bladder

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Derm/o

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Skin

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Enter/o

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Intestines

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Erythr/o

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Red

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Gloss/o

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Tongue

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Hemat/o

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Blood

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Leuk/o

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White

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Aden/o

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Gland

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Cephal/o

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Head

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Nephr/o

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Kidney

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Onc/o

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Tumor; bulk; volume

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Oste/o

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Bone

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Ot/o

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Ear

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Path/o

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Disease

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Rhin/o

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Nose

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Disc/o

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Separation; taking apart

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-algia

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Pain

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-cide

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Killing, destroying

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-cle

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Little

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-cyte

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Cell

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-dyne

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Pain

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-ectomy

A

Surgical operation; removal of a body part; resection; excision

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-lith

A

Stone; calculus

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-lysis

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Destruction; separation

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-malacia

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Softening

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-megaly

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Enlargement; million

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-oid

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Resemblance to

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-ology

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Study of

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-ostomy

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Surgical creation of an artificial opening

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-penia

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Deficiency

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-phasia

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Speech

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-phobia

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Exaggerated fear; sensitivity

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-pnea

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Respiration; breathing

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-rrhage

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Burst forth

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-rrhea

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Flowing; discharge

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-scopy

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Use of instrument for viewing

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-spasm

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Involuntary contraction

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-stasis

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Stop; stand

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-stenosis

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Abnormal narrowing in a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure

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-trophy

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Nourishment; development

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-uria

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Urine

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A-

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Without; not; separation; away from

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Ad-

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Toward; in the direction of

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Ab-

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Away

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Ambi-

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Both sides; both of 2

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Ante-

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In front of something

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Antero-

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Situated in front

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Anti-

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Against or opposed to another

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Auto-

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Self

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Bi-

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Twice; double

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Brady-

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Slow

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Circum-

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Around another

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Contra-

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Against

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Dia-

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Through; during; across

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Dorso-

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Back

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Dys-

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Bad; difficult

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Endo-

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Inside; within

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Epi-

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On; upon

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Hemi-

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One-half

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Hyper-

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Extreme; beyond normal

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Hypo-

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Below normal

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Inter-

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Between; among

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Intra-

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Within

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Latero-

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Lateral

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Medi-

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Middle

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Peri-

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Surrounding; around another

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Poly-

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Plurality of something

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Postero-

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Posterior

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Pre-

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Before another

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Retro-

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Backward; behind

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Sub-

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Beneath

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Super-

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In excess; above; superior

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Syn-

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Similarity

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Tachy-

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Fast; irregularly fast

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Trans-

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Moving; situated across or through

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Semi-

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One-half; partly

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Alb-

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White or pale

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Chloro-

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Green

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Cirrho-

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Yellow

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Cyano-

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Blue

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Melano-

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Black

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Purpuro-

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Purple

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Neur/o

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Nerves and the nervous system

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-otomy

A

To cut

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Supra-

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Above; excessive