Prefixes Flashcards by Savannah Worthen

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Baro

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Pressure

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Pluri

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Several

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Mega

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Large

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Semi

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Half

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Isch

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Keep back

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A

A

Not or not normal

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Arrhythmia

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Not normal rhythm

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Brady

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Slow

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Tachy

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Fast

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ECG

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Electrocardiogram - looking for electoral activity

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ECHO

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ECG with sound waves

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TEE

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Transesophageal echocardiogram

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AML

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Acute Myloid Leukemia

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CML

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Chronic myloid leukemia

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MI

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Myocardial infarction

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IVC

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Inferior vena cava

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SVC

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Superior vena cava

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IV

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Inferior vena, intravenous, interventricular

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ALL

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Actress lymphoblastic leukemia

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CLL

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Chronic Lymphoblastic Leukemia

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Apheresis

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Separation of blood
Components

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Gurgita

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Flood

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Phylaxis

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Safeguard/protection

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Poikilo

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Take on many shapes

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Titer

Amount of antibody needed

Vegeta

Growth

Tamponade

Plug up

Sphygmo

Pulse

Palpita

Trembling or quivering

Petechia

Small, red spots on skin

Phoresis

Movement of particles

Atrium

Large vessel leading from the heart

Ventricle

“Little belly”

Mitr

Type of hat with a crease in the center

Coagul

Clot

Aden

Gland

Ather

Plaque

Angi

Vessel

Biconcave disc

Bent inward twice

Cuspid

Pointed end

Diastolic

Heart is relaxed

Stenoic

Full or partial blockage

Systolic

Heart is contracted

Intercalated discs

Discs that hold the heart muscles together

Ization

Placing something into a vessel

Ectomy

Cutting out of

Ectasia

Dilation

Ptosis

Drooping

Centesis

Puncture

Ose

Having that quality

Pan

All

Inter

Between, among

Endo

Inside

Poly

Many

Hypo

Too little

Eu

Good

Tachy

Fast

Alveol

Small hollow space

Ausculta

Listening carefully

Bronch

Tubes joining trachea to the bronchioles

Choncha

Shell

Carina

Place where the trachea divides into two primary bronchi

Chylo

Lymph fluid

Coni

Dust

Cost

Rib

Adenoid

Collection of immune tissue at top of oral cavity

Glott

Vocal chords

Nebul

Clouds

Nares

Nostril

Phren

Diaphragm

Phon

Sound

Pnea

Respiration

Py

Pus

Stern

Breast bone

Tuss

Cough

Ptysis

Spitting

Spir

Breath

Trach

Tune between pharynx and lungs

DPT

Vaccine

Ate

Shaped like

Cele

Hernia

Centesis

Punture

Emia

Present in blood

Malacia

Softening due to disease

Plegia

Inability to move