Lesson 9 Blood disorders, cancer and the immune system
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douglasallison12 on January 10, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 -ectasis | expansion or dilation |
| -emesis | vomiting |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -esis | state or condition |
| eu- | good, well |
| -ia | condition |
| -iasis | condition, formation of |
| -ism | condition |
| -ites or -itis | inflammation |
| -lysis or -lytic or lyso- or lys- | break down, destruction, dissolving |
| mal- | bad, abnormal |
| -malacia | softening |
| -mania | morbid impulse towards an object/thing |
| myc- or myco- | fungus |
| myx- or myxo- | mucus |
| necr- or necro- | death |
| normo- | normal |
| -odyn | pain |
| -oma | tumor |
| -oid | resembling |
| orth- or ortho- | straight, normal, correct |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal |
| -pathy or patho- or path- | disease |
| -penia | deficiency, lack of |
| -phagia or phagy | eating, swallowing |
| -phasia | speech |
| -plasia or -plastic | growth |
| -plegia | paralysis |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -poiesis | production |
| -praxia | movement |
| pro- | favoring, supporting |
| pseudo- | false |
| pro- | favoring, supporting |
| -ptosis | falling, drooping |
| pyo- | pus |
| pyro- | fever |
| onco- | tumor, bulk, volume |
| -rrhage or -rrhagic | bleeding |
| -rrhea | flow or discharge |
| sarco- | muscular, fleshlike |
| schisto- | split, cleft, division |
| schiz- or schizo | split, cleft |
| sclera- or sclero- | hardness |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -sis | condition |
| -spasm | muscle condition |
| spasmo- | spasm |
| -stasis | level, unchanging |
| sten- or steno- | narrowed, blocked |
| -taxis | movement |
| -trophy | growth |
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