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What is the meaning of adenitis (ad-e-ni-tis)?
Because itis is the suffix meaning inflammation and aden means gland, adenitis means inflammation of the glands.
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What is adenoma (ad-e-no-ma)?
Because the suffix oma means tumor or mass and aden means gland, adenoma means tumor of a gland.
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what is the meaning of adenopathy (ad-e-nop-a-the)?
Because the suffix pathy means disease condition, and aden means gland, adenopathy means a disease or condition in the glad.
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what do all medical terms have?
A suffix
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Which element begins at appears at the beginning of a medical term?
A prefix
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Hemat/o/logy?
- Hemat=Blood, Logy=process of study
- hematology= study of blood
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What are the important elements of word analysis?
- Root=foundation of the term
- Suffix=word ending
- Prefix=word beginning
- Combining Vowel=usually o that links the root to the suffix or the root to another root aiding in pronunciation.
- Combining Form=Combination of the root word and the combining vowel
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What are three general rules when it comes to medical terminology?
- 1. Read the meaning of the medical term from the suffix back to the beginning of the term then across.
- 2.drop the combining vowel before a suffix beginning with a vowel. Ex. Gastritis not Gastroitis
- 3. Keep the combining vowel between two roots. Ex. gastroenterology not gastrenterology
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Combining Forms of Aden/o?
Gland
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Combining Forms of arthr/o?
Joint
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Combining Forms of bi/o?
Life
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Combining Forms of Carcin/o?
Cancerous,cancer
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Combining Forms of Cardi/o?
Heart
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Combining Forms of Cephal/o? (se-fal-ik)
head
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Combining Forms of Cerebr/o?
Brain
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Combining Forms of cis/o?
to cut
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Combining Forms of crin/o?
to secrete ( to form and give off)
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Combining Forms of Encephal/o?
brain
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Enter?
Intestines usually small
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iatr/o
treatment, physican
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Combining Forms of log/o
study of
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Ophthalm/o (of-thal-mo)
eye
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Suffixes meaning pertaining to are?
-ac, -al, -ic, -ical
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Suffix ectomy
excision, removal
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Suffix -emia
blood condition
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Suffix -genic
Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in
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Suffix -itis
inflammation
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Suffix -logy
Process of study
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Suffix -oma
tumor, mass, swelling
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Suffix -opsy
Process of veiwing
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Suffix -osis
Condition usually abnormal (Slight increas in numbers when used with blood cells
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Suffix -pathy
disease, condition
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Suffix -scope
instrument to visually examine
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Suffix -scopy
process of visually examing
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Suffix -sis
state of, condition
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Suffix - tomy
process of cutting, incision
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Suffix -y
process, condition
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a-,an Prefix meaning
not,no, without
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auto, aut Prefix meaning
own, self
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dia- Prefix meaning
complete, through
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endo-Prefix meaning
within
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epi-Prefix meaning
above, upon
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trans-Prefix meaning
across
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sub- Prefix meaning
below
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retro-Prefix meaning
behind
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re- Prefix meaning
back, backward, again
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pro-Prefix meaning
before, forward
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peri-Prefix meaning
surrounding, around
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in-Prefix meaning
into, in
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hypo-Prefix meaning
below,under,less then normal
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hyper-Prefix meaning
excessive,above, more than normal
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ex- exo-Prefix meaning
out, outside of, outward
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when - is above a vowel the sound is
long exactly like its name.
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when ~ marking is above a vowel it indicates.
a short sound
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