Medical Terms

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Dys-

Bad, difficult, painful

hyper-

excessive, increased

hypo-

deficient, decreased

hepat/o

liver

-algia

pain, duffering

-ectomy

surgical removal

-osis

abnormal condition

-malacia

abnormal softening

-itis

inflammation

necrosis

tissue death

-rrhage

bleeding, bursting forth

-ostomy

surgical creation of an opening

-otomy

surgical incsision

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

surgical sutering

-scopy

visual examination

-rhexis

rupture

-stenosis

abnormal narrowing

-sclerosis

abnormal hardening

rrhea

flow or discharge

cardiac

pertaining to the head

gastrosis

abnormal stomach condition

myorrhexis

rupture of the muscle

gastralgia

stomach pain

myoplasty

surgical muscle repair

corono

crown, coronary

adip/o

fat

adreno

gland

home/o

constant

cephal/o

relating to the head

endo-

within

epi-

above

cyt/o

cell

exo

out of

hist/o

tissue

path/o

pertaining to

-stasis

control

-stasis

control

-ac

disease/suffering/and emotion

retro-

behind

epigastric

above the stomach

umbilicus

belly button

hypochondriac

below the ribs

hypogastric

under the stomach

illiac

hipbone

dys-

bad, difficult, painful

inter-

between, among

hypo-

deficient, decreased

hyper-

excessive, increased

intra-

within, inside

supra-

above, excessive

pre-

before

poly-

many

peri-

surrounding

sub-

under, less, below

-itis

inflammation

-algia

pain, suffering

-graphy

process of producing a picture or record

-centisis

surgical puncture to remove fluid

-ectomy

surgical removal

-plasty

surgical repair

-malacia

abnormal softening

-dynia

pain

-necrosis

tissue death

-oma

tumor or neoplasm

-sclerosis

abnormal hardening

-otomy

cutting, surgical inscision

-ac

pertaining to

-ostomy

surgical creating of an opening

-rrhea

abnormal flow, discharge

-stenosis

abnormal tightening or narrowing

-rrhagia

bleeding

-rrhexis

rupture

-rrhaphy

to suture