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Word parts pertaining to disease
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| carcin/o | cancer, carcinoma |
| cyst/o, cyst/i | filled sac or pouch, cyst, bladder |
| lith | calculus, stone |
| onc/o | tumor |
| path/o | disease |
| py/o | pus |
| pyr/o , pyret/o | fever, fire |
| scler/o | hard |
| tox/o, toxic/o | poison |
| brady- | slow |
| dys- | abnormal, painful, difficult |
| mal- | bad, poor |
| pachy- | thick |
| tachy- | rapid |
| xero- | dry |
| -algia, -algesia | pain |
| -cele | hernia, localized dilation |
| -clasis, -clasia | breaking |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -odynia | pain |
| -oma | tumor (plural: -omas, -omata) |
| -pathy | any disease of |
| -rhage, -rhagia | bursting forth, profuse flow, hemorrhage (remember to double the "r" when adding this suffix to a root) |
| -rhea | flow, discharge (remember to double the "r" when adding this suffix to a root) |
| -rhexis | rupture (remember to double the "r" when adding this suffix to a root) |
| -schisis | fissure, splitting |
| dilation, dilatation | expansion, widening (may also refer to treatment) |
| ectasia, ectasis | dilation |
| edema | accumulation of fluid, swelling |
| lysis | separation, loosening, dissolving, destruction (may also refer to treatment) |
| malacia | softening |
| necrosis | death of |
| ptosis | dropping, downward displacement, prolapse |
| spasm | sudden contraction, cramp |
| stasis | suppression, stoppage (may also refer to treatment) |
| stenosis | narrowing, constriction |
| staphyl/o | grapelike cluster |
| strept/o | twisted chain |
| bacill/i, bacill/o | bacillus |
| bacteri/o | bacterium |
| myc/o | fungus, mold |
| vir/o | virus |
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