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Medical Terminology Midterm

  1. -cele
    hernia
  2. my/o
    muscle
  3. ic
    pertaining to
  4. -ectomy
    excision, to remove
  5. mal
    bad, poor
  6. an
    without
  7. trophy
    development
  8. nat/o
    birth
  9. al
    pertaining to
  10. -iasis
    condition, usually infestation
  11. gloss/o
    tongue
  12. melan/o
    black
  13. -megaly
    enlarged
  14. leuk/o
    white
  15. -osis
    condition
  16. -pathy
    disease
  17. ac
    pertaining to
  18. -logist
    person who studies
  19. -centesis
    surgical puncture
  20. dys
    difficult, painful
  21. neur/o
    nerves
  22. oid
    resembling
  23. cerebr/o
    cerebrum
  24. genesis
    to generate
  25. phagia
    eat, swallow
  26. chol/e
    gall, bile
  27. -gram
    picture
  28. lith
    stones, calculus
  29. spin/o
    spinal
  30. cyst/o
    bladder, sac
  31. pepsia
    digestion
  32. -tropic
    affecting
  33. -plasm
    growth of tissue
  34. -algia
    pain
  35. -metry
    process of measuring
  36. -phobia
    fear
  37. -cyte
    cell
  38. -logy
    study of
  39. cyt/o
    cell
  40. ceph/o
    head
  41. son/o
    sound
  42. hemat
    blood
  43. et/i
    cause
  44. blast
    immature, embryonic
  45. psych/o
    mind
  46. -penia
    low number
  47. etiology
    study of the CAUSE of disease
  48. syndrome
    complete picture of disease; cannot be fixed
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Medical Terminology Midterm
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