MED TERM

4 September 2022
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INTRA
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which means within.
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PNEUMONO
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which means lung.
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ULTRA
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which means beyond.
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MICRO
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which means small.
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SCOPO
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which means to view or examine.
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SILICO
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which pertains to silicon carbon particles found in the dust of the volcano.
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VOLCANO
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means to vent or erupt.
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CONIO
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pertains to dust.
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OSIS
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means a medical condition or disease.
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MYOS
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means a medical condition or disease.
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OSTEON
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which means bone.
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ARTERIO
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meaning artery.
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Y
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is the process of.
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TOM
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is to cut.
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ANA
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means to move up or apart.
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ANTE
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means before or in front of.
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ANTI
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means against.
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NEO
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means new. A neoplasm is a new growth.
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OLIGO
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means few or scanty or little.
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ORTHO
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means straight, normal or correct.
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OXY
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means sharp or quick or acute.
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POLY
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referred to as meaning many or much.
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PRONUS
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means face-down.
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PSEUDO
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means false.
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SCLERO
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means hard.
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SCOLIO
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means twisted or crooked.
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SINISTRO
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means left.
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STASIS
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means to stop.
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STENO
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means a narrowing.
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STALSIS
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means to contract.
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TACHY
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means fast or swift.
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TELE, TELO or TEL
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means the end or something far away.
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THERMO
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means heat or warm.
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TRACHY
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means rough.
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XERO
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would be dry skin
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OS, ORAL and STOMO
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mean mouth.
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MESO
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means middle or mid.
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Microglossia
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would be a small tongue.
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MINIMUS
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means smallest.
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MULTI and POLY
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pertain to many or much.
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NECRO
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means dead or dying.
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LAT or LATUS
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means broad or to the side.
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LONGUS
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means long.
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MACRO
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means large or an abnormally large size.
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Macrochiria
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means large hands.
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MAGNI
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means large or great.
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MALACO
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means soft.
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MAL
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means bad.
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MEDI
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means middle.
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MEGA
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means great.
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MEGALO
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means huge.
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CIRCUM
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would be circumduction.
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PERI
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pericardium.
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EC
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ectopic pregnancy.
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EX
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exangia, a vessel dilation or dilation out.
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DIA
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diameter, to measure across
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PER
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in permeate, which means an opening through.
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ENDO
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would be endocrine glands.
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PAR
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like parotid, near the ear.
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SUPER, or superior
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which would be one who is above.
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SUPRA
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which also means above, like the suprarenals, above the kidneys.
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ALGIA
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which means pain.
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CELE
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which is a hernia or a protrusion or a rupturing - occasionally it's used to mean a swelling or even a tumor.
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DYNIA
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which means pain.
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ECTASIS
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means the dilation of something.
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ECT
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is out, and ectasis usually means dilating outward.
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EMIA
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pertains to the blood or referring to the blood.
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GEN
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means to produce or the beginning of something.
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GRAM
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means a recording or a writing.
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GRAPH
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means an instrument.
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GRAPHY
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is the process of using the instrument to make the writing or the recording.
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Current medical vocabulary includes terms built from
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Greek and Latin word parts. eponyms, the person name. acronyms, form by the first letter of each word. terms from modern language
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All medical terms in the text are divided into two categories
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terms built from word parts terms not built from word parts
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Analyze and Define Building Medical Terms
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arthritis= inflammation of a joint intravenous= pertaining to within a vein osteitis= inflammation of the bone osteoarthritis= inflammation of the bone and joint subhepatic= pertaining to under the liver osteopathy= disease of the bone arthropathy= disease of the joint hepatitis= inflammation of the liver
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ITIS
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an inflammation
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PATHY
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is the process of having disease