Med Terms Ch 1-3

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aer/o
air, gas
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Ather/o
plaque, fatty substance(inside of a blood vessel)
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Blast/o
Immature cell
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Calc/o, calci/o
calcium
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Chondrio, chondro
cartilage, grainy, gritty
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Chyl/o
chyle, a digestive juice
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Chym/o
chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach
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Cyst/o, cysti
bladder, cyst, cystic duct
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Cyt/o
cell
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Ethm/o
ethmoid bone
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Gluc/o
glucose
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Hydr/o
hydrogen, water
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Ket/o, keton/o
ketone, acetone
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Lip/o
fat(outside of a blood vessel)
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Nucle/o
nucleus
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Plasma, plasmo
formative, plasma
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Salping/o
tube
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Sider/o
iron
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Somat/o
body
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Squam/o
scale, squamous(meaning scaly)
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Syring/o
tube
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algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o
pain
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Cry/o
cold
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Dips/o
thirst
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Esthesi/o
sensations, perception
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Kin/o, kine
movement
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Kinesi/o, kines/o
Motion
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Phon/o
sound, voice, speech
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Phot/o
light
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Son/o
sound
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Therm/o
heat
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acanth/o
spiny, thorny
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Andr/o
masculine
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Chlor/o
chlorine, green
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Chrom/o, chromat/o
color
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Cyan/o
blue
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Eosin/o
red
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Erythr/o
red, redness
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Granul/o
granular
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Gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o
women
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Home/o, hom/o
same, constant
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Ichthy/o
dry, scaly, fishy
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Idi/o
distinct, unknown
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Immun/o
safe, immune
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Leuk/o
white
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Macr/o
large, long
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Meg/a, megal/o
large, million
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Melan/o
black, dark
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Micr/o
small, tiny
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Mio
smaller, less
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Morph/o
structure, shape
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Norm/o
normal
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Physi/o
physical, natural
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Pseud/o
false
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Scler/o
hardness, hardening
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Scoli/o
crooked, bent
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Spher/o
round, spherical
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Staphyl/o
grapelike clusters
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Sten/o
narrowness
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Strept/o
twisted chains, streptococci
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Terat/o
monster (as a malformed fetus)
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Xanth/o
yellow
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bacill/o
bacilli, bacteria
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Bacteri/o
bacteria
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Carcin/o
cancer
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Kyph/o
humpback
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Onch/o, onc/o
tumor
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Path/o
disease
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Pyr/o
fever, fire, heat
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Schist/o
split
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Schiz/o
split, division
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Spasm/o
spasm
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anteri/o
front
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Dextr/o
right, toward the right
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Dors/o
back
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Goni/o
angle
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Later/o
lateral, to one side
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Medi/o
middle, medial plane
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Mes/o
middle, median
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Orth/o
straight, normal
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Top/o
place, tropical
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crin/o
secrete
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Gen/o
producing, being born
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Hypn/o
sleep
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Log/o
speech, words, thought
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Narc/o
sleep, numbness
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Phag/o
eating, devouring, swallowing
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Somn/o, somni
sleep
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Spir/o
breath; breathe
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actin/o
light
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Amyl/o
starch
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Bar/o
weight, pressure
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Bas/o, basi/o
base
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Bio
life
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Chem/o
chemical
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Chrono
time
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Coni/o
dust
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Cycl/o
circle, cycle
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Dyna, dynam/o
force, energy
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Echo
reflected sound