Med Term (2)

Aden/o

gland
cyt/o

cell
epitheli/o

epithelium
fibr/o

fiber
hist/o

tissue
kary/o

nucleus
lip/o

fat
my/o

muscle
neur/o

nerve
organ/o

organ
sarc/o
- flesh
- connective tissue
system/o

system
Viscer/o

internal organs
cancer/o, carcin/o

cancer (a disease characterized by the unregulated abnormal growth of new cells)
eti/o

cause (of disease)
gno/o

knowledge
iatr/o
- physician
- medicine
- treatment
lei/o

smooth
onc/o
- tumor
- mass
path/o

disease
rhabd/o
- rod-shaped
- striated
somat/o

body
dia-
- Through
- complete
dys-
- painful
- abnormal
- difficult
- labored
hyper-
- above
- excessive
hypo-
- below
- incomplete
- deficient
meta-
- after
- beyond
- change
neo-

new
pro-

before
-al, -ic, -ous

pertaining to
-cyte

cells
-gen

substance or agent that produces or causes
-genic
- producing
- originating
- causing
-logist

one who studies and treats
-logy

resembling
-oma
- tumor
- swelling
-osis

abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots.)
-pathy

disease
-plasia
- condition of formation
- development
- growth
-plasm

malignant tumor
-sis

state of
-stasis
- control
- stop
- standing

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Med Term (2)

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Med Term lecture test number one.

Updated

2012-01-23T18:24:38Z

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