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Terms to represent the names of diseases or disorders?
Patho/logies
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Cancer or a Cancer/ous tumor?
Carcin/oma
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CF that means tumor?
onc(o)
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a benign tumor made up of blood vessels or lymph vessels?
angi/oma
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Ophthalm/itis is inflammation of the?
eye
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Appendic/itis is inflammation of the?
appendix
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Otitis means inflammation of the ?
ear
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Tonsillitis means inflammation of the?
Tonsils
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Mast/itis is inflammation of the?
breast
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Oste/itis is inflammation of the ?
bone
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Neuritis is inflammation of the?
nerve
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Canerco, carcino
cancer
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CF
Litho
stone or calculus
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-emia
condition of the blood
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-ia, -iasis
condition
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-lith
stone or calculus
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-mania
excessive preoccupation
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suffix
-m aniac
a person who shows excessive proccupation
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-osis
condition (often an abnormal condition; sometimes an increase)
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-phobia
abnormal fear
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suffix
-ptosis
prolapse (sagging)
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What does adenitis the inflammation of?
gland
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dermatitis is inflammation of the?
skin
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A protrusion of all or part of an organ through an abnormal opening?
hernia
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Herniation of part of the brain through an opening in the skull is referred to as?
Encephalocele
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This term means any persistent and irrational fear of something.
Phobia
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The suffix, -ptosis means prolapse or?
sagging
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Ptosis has two meanings, one can be that of the suffix, the other sometimes means the prolapse of one or both ?
eyelids
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A suffix that means excessive preoccupation?
-mania
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a disorder characterized by escessive preocupation with seeing or setting fires?
pyromania
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This condition is so named because ancient greeks believed that hysterical women suffered from a disturbed condition of the uterus. What is it?
Hysteria
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A nervous condition or disorder that is not caused by a demonstrable structural change.
Neurosis
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Path(o) and the corresponding suffix -pathy mean?
disease
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any disease of a gland; enlargement of a gland
adenopathy
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Any disease of the eye
Ophthalmopathy
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the suffix -emia means a condition of the
blood
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abnormal stones formed in body tissues
(usually associated with the urinary tract or the gallbladder or its ducts)
Calculi
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pertaining to a nerve or the nerves?
Neural
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pertaining to the breasts
mammary
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pertaining to the brain
cerebral
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pertaining to the eyelid
blepharal
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pertaining to something that causes division or dissension
divisive
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one affected with a compulsion to set fires
pyromaniac
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opt(o) means vision. what does the sufix -opia mean?
vision
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both -able and -ible are used to mean?
Capable
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both -eum and -ium mean?
membrane
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a membrane that lines the abdominal and pelvic cavities?
peritoneum
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Enzymes are often named by changing -ose to ?
-ase
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The CF lact(o) means milk, the sugar in milk is known as lactose. What do you call the enzyme that acts on lactose?
Lact(o) + -ase
Lactase
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suffix that means, pertaining to or characterized by.
-ous
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the suffixes -pathy and -y mean
condition
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CF
gen(o)
beginning, origin
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CF
log(o)
knowledge or words
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CF
lys(o)
destruction, dissolving
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meal(o)
large, enlarged
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metr(o)
measure, uterine tissue
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plas(o)
formation, development
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schis(o) , schiz(o) ,schist(o)
split, cleft
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-gen
that which generates
-genic (produced by or in) -genesis (producing or forming)
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kinesia, -kinesis
movement, motion
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Suffix
-logy
study or science of
-logist (one who studies)
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suffix
-lysin
that which destroys
-lysis (process of destroying)
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suffix
megaly
enlargement
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suffix
-meter
instrument used to measure
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suffix
-phagia, -phagic, -phagy
eating, swallowing
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-plasty
surgical repair
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-schisis
split, cleft
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suffix
-sclerosis
hardening, hard
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suffix
-scopy
process of visually examining
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suffix
-trophic, -trophy
nutrition
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a substance that produces cancer is called a?
carcenogen
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a cell that can ingest and destroy particulate substances such as bacteria
phagocyte
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