Words Flashcards by Andrew Herring

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chol/e

A

bile; gall

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cholecyst/o

A

gallbladder

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col/o; colon/o

A

colon

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choledoch/o

A

bile duct

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dent/o; adont/o

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teeth

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enter/o

A

intestine

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gastro/o

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stomach

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gloss/o; lingu/o

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tongue

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or/o; stoma/o

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mouth

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ptyal/o; sial/o

A

saliva; salivary gland

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sigmoid/o

A

sigmoid colon

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carcin/o

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cancer

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nemat/o

A

blood

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litho

A

stone; calculus

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maxill/o

A

maxilla

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orth/o

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straight

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ptyal/o

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saliva

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therm/o

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heat

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tox/o; toxic/

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poison

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ab-

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away from

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epi-

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above; upon

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-ectomy

A

excision; removal

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-plasty

A

surgical repair

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-rrhaphy

A

suture

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-stomy

forming an opening

-tome

instrument to cut

-tomy

incision

-algia; -dynia

pain

-emesis

vomiting

-gram

record; writing

-graphy

process of recording

-iasis

abnormal condition

-itis

inflammation

-lith

stone; calculus

-logist

specialist

-logy

study of

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor

-osis

abnormal condition; increase

-pepsia

digestion

-phagia

swalling; eating

-rrhea

discharge; flow

-scope

instrument used to examine

-scopy

visual examination

-stenosis

narrowing; stricture

adip/o; lip/o; steat/o

fat

cutane/o; derm/o; dermat/o

skin

cyt/o

cell

hidr/; sudor/o

sweat

hydro/o

water

ichthy/o

dry; scaly

kerat/o

horny tissue; hard; cornea

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death; necrosis

pil/o; trich/o

hair

onchy/o

nail

scler/o

hardening; sclera

squam/o

scale

xer/o

dry

cyan/o

blue

erythro; erythemat/o

red

leuk/o

white

melan/o

black

xanth/o

yellow

auto-

self; own

epi-

above; on

hypo-

under; below deficient

sub-

under; below

-plasty

surgical repair

-tome

instrument to cut with

-cele

hernia; swelling

-cyte

cell

-derma

skin

-emia

blood condition

-esis

condition

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

softening

-pathy

disease

penia

decreased; deficiency

-phagia

swalling; eating

-phoresis

carrying; transmission

-rrhea

discharge; flow

-therapy

treatment

-spasm

involuntary contraction; twitching

hyper-

excessive; above normal

dys-

bad; difficult

peri-

around

proct/o

anus; rectum