Medical Terminology Chapter 2 2012
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67 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cause (of disease) | eti/o |
| smooth | lei/o |
| physician, medicine (also means treatment) | iatr/o |
| flesh, connective tissue | sarc/o |
| internal organs | viscer/o |
| below, incomplete, deficient | hypo- |
| after, beyond, change | meta- |
| new | neo- |
| before | pro- |
| pertaining to | -al, -ic, -ous |
| cell | -cyte |
| substance or agent that produces or causes | -gen |
| producing, originating, causing | -genic |
| painful, abnormal, difficult, labored | dys- |
| through, complete | dia- |
| above, excessive | hyper- |
| red | erythr/o |
| black | melan/o |
| white | leuk/o |
| blue | cyan/o |
| yellow | xanth/o |
| color | chrom/o |
| green | chlor/o |
| cell | cyt/o |
| epithelium | epitheli/o |
| tissue | hist/o |
| nucleus | kary/o |
| fat | lip/o |
| muscle | my/o |
| nerve | neur/o |
| organ | organ/o |
| system | system/o |
| knowledge | gno/o |
| gland | aden/o |
| fiber | fibr/o |
| tumor, mass | onc/o |
| cancer | cancer/o, carcin/o |
| rod-shaped, striated | rhabd/o |
| disease | path/o |
| body | somat/o |
| malignant tumor | -sarcoma |
| state of | -sis |
| study of | -logy |
| disease | -pathy |
| one who studies and treats (specialist, physician) | -logist |
| growth, substance, formation | -plasm |
| tumor, swelling | -oma |
| resembling | -oid |
| condition of formation, development, growth | plasia |
| abnormal condition | -osis |
| control, stop, standing | -stasis |
| group of organs functioning together | system |
| chest cavity | thoracic cavity |
| composed of two or more tissues | organ |
| space inside the skull | cranial cavity |
| contains the stomach | abdominal cavity |
| contains the urinary bladder | pelvic cavity |
| type of connective tissue | bone |
| regions within the chromosome | genes |
| covers external body surface, lines body cavities and organs | epithelial tissue |
| gel like fluid inside the cell | cytoplasm |
| contains chromosomes | nucleus |
| coordinates body activities | nerve tissue |
| usually produces movement | muscle tissue |
| contain genes | chromosomes |
| a genetic material that regulates the activities of the cell | DNA |
| basic unit of all living things | cell |
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