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

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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

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Amount of antibody needed

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Vegeta

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Growth

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Tamponade

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Plug up

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Sphygmo

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Pulse

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Palpita

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Trembling or quivering

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Petechia

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Small, red spots on skin

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Phoresis

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Movement of particles

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Atrium

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Large vessel leading from the heart

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Ventricle

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“Little belly”

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Mitr

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Type of hat with a crease in the center

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Coagul

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Clot

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Aden

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Gland

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Ather

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Plaque

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Angi

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Vessel

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Biconcave disc

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Bent inward twice

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Cuspid

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Pointed end

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Diastolic

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Heart is relaxed

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Stenoic

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Full or partial blockage

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Systolic

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Heart is contracted

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Intercalated discs

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Discs that hold the heart muscles together

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Ization

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Placing something into a vessel

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Ectomy

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Cutting out of

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Ectasia

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Dilation

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Ptosis

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Drooping

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Centesis

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Puncture

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Ose

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Having that quality

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Pan

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All

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Inter

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Between, among

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Endo

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Inside

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Poly

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Many

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Hypo

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Too little

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Eu

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Good

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Tachy

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Fast

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Alveol

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Small hollow space

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Ausculta

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Listening carefully

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Bronch

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Tubes joining trachea to the bronchioles

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Choncha

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Shell

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Carina

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Place where the trachea divides into two primary bronchi

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Chylo

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Lymph fluid

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Coni

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Dust

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Cost

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Rib

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Adenoid

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Collection of immune tissue at top of oral cavity

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Glott

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Vocal chords

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Nebul

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Clouds

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Nares

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Nostril

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Phren

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Diaphragm

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Phon

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Sound

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Pnea

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Respiration

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Py

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Pus

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Stern

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Breast bone

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Tuss

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Cough

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Ptysis

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Spitting

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Spir

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Breath

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Trach

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Tune between pharynx and lungs

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DPT

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Vaccine

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Ate

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Shaped like

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Cele

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Hernia

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Centesis

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Punture

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Emia

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Present in blood

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Malacia

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Softening due to disease

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Plegia

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Inability to move