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What is the root word for gland?
aden/o
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What is the root word for joint?
arthr/o
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What is the root word for life?
bi/o
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What is the root word for cancerous/cancer?
carcin/o
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What is the root word for heart?
cardi/o
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What is the root word for head?
cephal/o
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What is the root word for cerebrum (largest part of the brain)?
cerebr/o
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What is the root word for to cut?
cis/o
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What is the root word for to secrete (to form and give off)?
crin/o
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What is the root word for urinary bladder; a sac or cyst (sac containing fluid)?
cyst/o
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What is the root word for cell?
cyt/o
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What is the root word for skin? (2)
derm/o dermat/o
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What is the root word for electricity?
electr/o
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What is the root word for brain?
encephal/o
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What is the root word for intestines (usually the small intestines)?
enter/o
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What is the root word for red?
erythr/o
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What is the root word for stomach?
gastr/o
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What is the root word for sugar?
glyc/o
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What is the root word for knowledge?
gnos/o
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What is the root word for woman/female?
gynec/o
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What is the root word for blood? (2)
hemat/o hem/o
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What is the root word for liver?
hepat/o
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What is the root word for treatment/doctor?
iatr/o
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What is the root word for white?
leuk/o
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What is the root word for study of?
log/o
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What is the root word for kidney? (2)
nephr/o ren/o
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What is the root word for nerve?
neur/o
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What is the root word for tumor?
onc/o
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What is the root word for eye?
ophthalm/o
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What is the root word for bone?
oste/o
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What is the root word for disease?
path/o
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What is the root word for child?
ped/o
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What is the root word for mind?
psych/o
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What is the root word for x-rays?
radi/o
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What is the root word for nose?
rhin/o
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What is the root word for flesh?
sarc/o
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What is the root word for to cut?
sect/o
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What is the root word for clot, clotting?
thromb/o
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What is the root word for urinary tract, urine?
ur/o
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What is the suffix for pertaining to? (4)
-ac (cardiac) -al (neural) -ic (gastric) -ical (neurologic)
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What is the suffix for pain?
-algia (arthralgia)
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What is the suffix for cell?
-cyte (erythrocyte)
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What is the suffix for excision, removal?
-ectomy (nephrectomy)
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What is the suffix for blood condition?
-emia (leukemia)
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What is the suffix for pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in?
-genic (carcinogenic, pathogenic, iatrogenic)
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What is the suffix for protein?
-globin (hemoglobin)
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What is the suffix for record?
-gram (electroencephalogram/EEG)
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What is the suffix for process?
-ion (excision)
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What is the suffix for specialist?
-ist (opthalmologist)
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What is the suffix for inflammation?
-itis (cystitis)
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What is the suffix for process of study?
-logy (endocrinology)
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What is the suffix for tumor, mass, swelling?
-oma (hepatoma)
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What is the suffix for process of viewing?
-opsy (biopsy)
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What is the suffix for condition, usually abnormal (slight increas in nubmers when used
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with blood cells)
-osis (nephrosis) (leukocytosis)
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What is the suffix for disease condition?
-pathy (enteropathy)
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What is the suffix for instrument to visually examine?
-scope (endoscope)
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What is the suffix for process of visually examining?
-scopy (endoscopy)
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What is the suffix for state of, condition?
-sis (prognosis)
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What is the suffix for process of cutting, incision?
-tomy (osteotomy)
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What is the suffix for process, condition?
-y (gastroenterology)
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What is the prefix for no, not, without?
a-, an- (anemia)
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What is the prefix for self, own?
aut-, auto- (autopsy)
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What is the prefix for complete, through?
dia- (diagnosis)
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What is the prefix for within?
endo- (endocrinologist)
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What is the prefix for above, upon?
epi- (epigastric) (epidermis)
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What is the prefix for out, outside of, outward?
ex-, exo- (exocrine glands)
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What is the prefix for excessive, above, more than normal?
hyper- (hyperthyroidism)
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What is the prefix for deficient, below, under, less than normal?
hypo- (hypogastric)
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What is the prefix for into, in?
in- (incision)
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What is the prefix for surrounding, around?
peri- (pericardium)
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What is the prefix for before, forward?
pro- (prostrate gland)
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What is the prefix for back, backward, again?
re- (resection)
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What is the prefix for behind?
retro- (retrocardiac)
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What is the prefix for below, under?
sub- (subhepatic)
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What is the prefix for across, through?
trans- (transhepatic)
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