Medical Terminology Flashcards
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Angi/o
A
blood vessels
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Bar/o
A
pressure or weight
3
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Brady‐
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Slow or low
4
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Cardi/o
A
heart
5
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Coagul/o
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blood clotting
6
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Coron/o
A
heart’s coronary arteries
7
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‐emia
A
condition of the blood, such as anemia (low red blood cell count) or leukemia (blood cancer)
8
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Hem/o
A
blood
9
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-megaly
A
enlarged organ
10
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Mi/o
A
muscles
11
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Palpit/o
A
irregular heartbeats
12
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‐plasty
A
Surgical repair
13
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Scler/o
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hardness or sclerosis (thickening or hardening of a tissue or organ)
14
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‐stenosis
A
Narrowing of a body passage
15
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Tachy‐
A
Fast
16
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Thromb
A
blood clot
17
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Vas/o
A
blood vessels
18
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Ven/o
A
veins
19
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Aspir/o, aspirat/o
A
inhale
20
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Bronch/o
A
bronchi
21
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Bronchi/o
A
bronchioles
22
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‐capnia, capn/o
A
carbon dioxide levels in the body
23
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Laryng/o
A
larynx
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Nas/o
A
nose
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Osm/o, ‐osmia
sense of smell
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Ox/o, ‐oxia
oxygen levels in the body
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Phon/o, phonia
sound or the voice
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Phren/o
diaphragm
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–pnea
breathing or respiration
30
Pneum/o, pneumon/o
lungs
31
Pulmon/o
lungs or pulmonary system
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Respir/o, respirat/o
breathing or respiration
33
Rhin/o
nose
34
Spir/o
breathing or respiration
35
Steth/o
chest or chest wall
36
Xen/o
foreign or strange
