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51 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 away (from the point of attachment of a body part) | dist/o |
| pertaining to | -ior |
| toward | -ad |
| one | uni- |
| two | bi- |
| below | infer/o |
| back | dors/o |
| middle | medi/o |
| side | later/o |
| near (the point of attachment of a body part) | proxim/o |
| back, behind | poster/o |
| belly (front) | ventr/o |
| above | super/o |
| head (upward) | cephal/o |
| front | anter/o |
| tail (downward) | caud/o |
| inflammation | -itis |
| softening | -malacia |
| view of, viewing | -opsy |
| eating or swallowing | -phagia |
| surgical repair | -plasty |
| flow, discharge | -rrhea |
| instrument used to cut | -tome |
| under, below | sub- |
| through, across, beyond | trans- |
| noun suffix, no meaning | -a |
| berry shaped (form of bacterium) | -coccus (pl. -cocci) |
| excision or surgical removal | -ectomy |
| disease or abnormal state, condition of | -ia |
| beside, beyond, around, abnormal | para- |
| through | per- |
| wrinkles | rhytid/o |
| graplike clusters | staphyl/o |
| twisted chains | strept/o |
| dry | xer/o |
| on, upon, over | epi- |
| within | intra- |
| death (cells, body) | necr/o |
| thick | pachy/o |
| dust | coni/o |
| hidden | crypt/o |
| other | heter/o |
| fungus | myc/o |
| self | aut/o |
| life | bi/o |
| sebum (oil) | seb/o |
| hair | trich/o |
| sweat | hidr/o |
| skin | cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o |
| nail | onych/o, ungu/o |
| horny tissue, hard | kerat/o |
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