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aden

gland
arthr

joint
bi

life
carcin

cancer
cardi

heart
cephal

head
cerebr

cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
cis

to cut
crin

to secrete (to form and give off)
cyst

urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst
cyt

cell
derm

skin
dermat

skin
electr

electricity
encephal

brain
enter

intestines (usually small)
erythr

red
gastr

stomach
glyc

sugar
gnos

knowledge
gynec

woman, female
hemat

blood
hem

blood
hepat

liver
iatr

treatment, physician
leuk

white
log

study of
nephr

kidney
neur

nerve
onc

tumor
ophthalm

eye
oste

bone
path

disease
ped

child
psych

mind
radi

x-rays
ren

kidney
rhin

nose
sarc

flesh
sect

to cut
thromb

clot, clotting
ur

urinary tract, urine
ac
- pertaining to
- s
al
- pertaining to
- s
algia
- pain
- s
cyte
- cell
- s
ectomy
- excision, removal
- s
emia
- blood condition
- s
genic
- pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
- s
globin
- protein
- s
gram
- record
- s
ic; ical
- pertaining to
- s
ion
- process
- s
ist
- specialist
- s
itis
- inflammation
- s
logy
- process of study
- s
oma
- tumor, mass, swelling
- s
opsy
- process of viewing
- s
osis
- condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)
- s
pathy
- disease condition
- s
scope
- instrument to visually examine
- s
scopy
- process of visually examining
- s
sis
- state of; condition
- s
tomy
- process of cutting, incision
- s
y
- process, condition
- s
a, an
- no, not, without
- p
aut, auto
- self, own
- p
dia
- complete, through
- p
endo
- within
- p
epi
- within
- p
ex, exo
- out, outside of, outward
- p
hyper
- excessive, above, more than normal
- p
hypo
- dificiant, below, under, less than normal
- p
in
- into, in
- p
peri
- surrounding, around
- p
pro
- before, forward
- p
re
- back, backward, again
- p
retro
- behind
- p
sub
- below, under
- p
trans
- across, through
- p

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Medical terminology

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medical terminology module 1

Updated

2013-09-30T02:17:19Z

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