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Medical Terminology

  1. minimus-
    smallest
  2. -logy
    the study of
  3. necro-
    dead
  4. oligo-
    few; scanty; little
  5. ortho-
    straight; normal; correct
  6. oxy-
    quick; sharp; acute
  7. pronus-; prono-
    face down
  8. sclero-
    hard
  9. sinistro-
    left
  10. stasis-
    stop
  11. steno-
    narrow
  12. stalsis
    contract
  13. tele-;tel;telo-
    end; far away
  14. trachy-
    rough
  15. Xero-
    dry
  16. angi
    vessel
  17. -oma
    swollen
  18. lymph
    watery
  19. erythro/ruber/rhod
    red
  20. albus/leuc/leuk
    white
  21. fulvus
    brown
  22. cyano/livid
    blue
  23. melano/nigra
    black
  24. glauco/sinerous/polio
    gray
  25. cirrho/flavus/xanth/luteo
    yellow
  26. eosin
    rose
  27. coccideus/crimson
    scarlet
  28. violaceus
    violet
  29. citreum
    lemon
  30. rosaceus
    pink
  31. ambi-
    both
  32. amphi
    on both sides
  33. dextro-
    right of
  34. epi-
    upon
  35. latero-
    side of
  36. retro-
    after
  37. sinistro
    left of
  38. ar-
    without, not, or lack of
  39. -cele
    hernia, swelling, tumor, protrusion,
  40. -dynia
    pain
  41. -ectasis
    dilation
  42. -emia
    blood
  43. -iasis
    condition or disease
  44. -gen
    producing/beginning
  45. melacia
    softening
  46. -megaly
    enlargement
  47. -oid
    resemble
  48. -oma
    tumor or swelling
  49. osis
    abnormal condition
  50. -penia
    disease. deficiency
  51. -phasia
    speech
  52. -plegia
    paralysis
  53. -ptosis
    prolapse, falling, drooping
  54. rrhexis
    rupture
  55. -desis
    bind/fixate
  56. celio/laparo/ventro. abdomino
    belly
  57. andro/gyneco
    man
  58. cheilo/labio
    lip
  59. cholesys-
    gallbladder
  60. choledoch-
    common bile duct
  61. duoden-
    twelve
  62. glosso-linguo
    tongue
  63. hystero/metro/utero
    uterus
  64. oophora-
    ovary
  65. opthalmo-
    eye
  66. orchido/testo
    testicle
  67. pan/creato
    all fleshy
  68. phlebo/veno
    vein
  69. procto
    rectum/anus
  70. salping/doch/duct
    tube
  71. spondyl
    vertebra
  72. stomato-
    mouth
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Medical Terminology
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chapter 1 and 2 of medical terminology
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