Terms And Word Parts Flashcards
Eu
Good, normal
Dys
Bad, difficult, painful
Hyper
Increased
Hypo
Decreased
Pre
Before
Post
After
Peri
Surrounding
Ab
Away from
Ad
Toward
Inter
Between
Intra
Within inside
Sub
Under
Supra
Above
Cyan
Blue
Erythr
Red
Rube
Red
Leuk
White
Albino
White
Melan
Black
Poli
Grey
Purpur
Purple
Xanth
Yellow
Cirrh
Orange yellow
Path
Disease
Tonsill
Tonsil
Crani
Skull
Gastr
Stomach
Cardi
Heart
Hepat
Liver
Arteri
Artery
Ather
Plaque
Arthr
Joint
Angi
Blood or lymph vessel
Myc
Fungus
Myel
Spinal cord
My
Muscle
Py
Pus
Nat
Birth
Pyr
Fever
Pyel
Renal pelvis
Rhin
Nose
Ot
Ear
Algia
Pain
Dynia
Pain
Itis
Inflammation
Osis
Abnormal condition disease
Ostomy
Surgically creating an opening
Otomy
Surgical incision
Ectomy
Surgical removal
Plasty
Surgical repair
Um
Singular noun ending
AC
Pertaining to
Ic
Pertaining to
Malacia
Abnormal softening
Megaly
Abnormal enlargement
Necrosis
Death
Sclerosis
Hardening
Stenosis
Narrowing
Cemtsis
Remove fluid
Graphy
Process of producing a picture
Gram
Picture or record
Scopy
Visual examination
Rrhage
Burst of blood
Rrhagia
Bursting forth
Rrhaphy
Surtueing or stitching
Rreha
Discharge
Rrhexis
Rupture
Ology
Study of
Ologist
One who
Edema
Means redness and swelling
Fissure
Crack like sore
Fistula
an abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow or tubular organs.
Ileum
the third portion of the small intestine, between the jejunum and the cecum.
Ilium
the large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis.
Infection
Invasion of the body by evil stuff
Inflammation
Redness and swelling
Mucous
Lining if membrane
Mucus
a slimy substance, typically not miscible with water, secreted by mucous membranes and glands for lubrication, protection, etc.
Palpation
Feeling the area
Palpitation
Pounding heart beat
Prostate
Male gland
Prostrate
lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward.
Supination
Palms up
Suppurations
Discharging pus
Triage
(in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.
Trauma
Blunt pain or blow
Viral
Act of virus
Virile
(of a man) having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive.
Noun
Person place thing
Adjective
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
Sign
Observation
Symptom
What you feel patient
Syndrome
Name of condition
Diagnosis
Naming the condition
Prognosis
Duration of virus or prediction
Differential diagnosis
the process of differentiating between two or more conditions that share similar signs or symptoms.
Acute
Immediately
Chronic
Over time
Remission
Symtoms stop for a while
Disease
a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
Eponym
a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.
a name or noun formed after a person.
Acronym
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word