Chapter 13

adren/o

adrenal glands
calc/o

calcium
crin/o

secrete
gluc/o
glyc/o
glycos/o

sugar
home/o

same
kal/i

potassium
pancreat/o

pancreas
paratyroid/o

parathyroid glands
thym/o

thymus gland
thyr/o
thyroid/o

thyroid gland
toxic/o

poison
-crine

secrete
-dipsia

thirst
-gen

origin
-toxic

poison
-uria

urine
eu-

normal
exo-

outside
hyper-

excessive
hypo-

below
poly-

many
acr/o-megaly
- extremity
- enlargement
di-ur-esis
- double
- urine
- condition
glucagon

secreted hormone by pancreatic cell
glycos-uria
- sugar
- urine
hyper-calc-emia
- excessive
- calcium
- blood
hyper-kal-emia
- excessive
- potassium
- blood
hyper-vol-emia
- excessive
- vloume
- blood
hypo-natr-emia
- below
- sodium
- blood
pan-hypo-pituitar-ism
- all
- under
- pituitary gland
- condition
virile

masculine
ex-ophthalm/o-metry
- out
- eye
- act of measuring
para-thyroid-ectomy
- near
- thyroid gland
- excision
thyroid-ectomy
- thyroid gland
- excision

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Chapter 13

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Medical Terminology

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2010-11-01T01:47:06Z

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