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Medical Terminology Chapter 2
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| -itis | inflammation |
| cephal/o | head |
| mast/o | breast |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| -algia | pain |
| colon/o | colon |
| -centesis | puncture |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| thorac/o | chest |
| -tomy | incision |
| enter/o | intestine |
| encephal/o | brain |
| -stomy | forming an opening (mouth) |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| phleb/o | vein |
| mening/o | meninges |
| -desis | binding, fixation (bone/joint) |
| -pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
| -rraphy | suture |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| my/o | muscle |
| -clasis | break, fracture |
| -lysis | separation,loosening,destruction |
| -tripsy | crushing |
| lith/o | stone, calculus |
| -cele | hernia, swelling |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectasis | dilation, expansion |
| bronchi/o, bronch/o | bronchus |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| hyper | excessive |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -gen, -genesis | forming, producing, origin |
| carcin/o | cancer |
| -gram | record, a writing |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -iasis | abnormal condidtion (specified) |
| -itis | inflammation |
| chol/e | bile, gall |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -meter | instrument for measuring |
| -metry | act of measuring |
| -oid | resembling |
| -oma | tumor |
| aden/o | gland |
| lip/o | fat |
| -osis | abnormal condition, increase (blood cells) |
| -para | to bear (offspring) |
| -paresis | partial paralysis |
| -pathy | disease |
| -penia | decrease, deficiency |
| -phagia | eating, swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -philia | attraction for |
| -phobia | fear |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -poiesis | formation, production |
| hem/o | blood |
| claustr/o | confined place |
| -ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | bursting forth |
| -rrhea | discharge, flow |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument to view |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
| -stasis | standing still |
| -stenosis | narrowing, stricture |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| angi/o | vessel |
| proct/o | anus/rectum |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| arteri/o | artery |
| thyr/o | thyroid |
| ten/o | tendons |
| peri- | around |
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