Lesson 4: Device Medical Terms

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/meter
instrument to measure
therm/
heat
thermometer
an instrument to measure heat
/genesis
creating
carcin/
prefix meaning cancer
carcinogenesis
the origin, production, or development of cancer, including carcinomas and other malignant neoplasm
/partum
childbirth
post/
after
postpartum
after childbirth
/plasty
restore through surgery
maxill/upper jawmaxilloplastyrestoring the upper jaw through surgerycardi/o/gramtracing of the heartthromb/o/plastysurgical repair of a blood clotthorac/o/centesissurgical puncture into the chestgastr/o/tomyincision into the stomacharthr/algiapain in jointshemat/omablood tumor (lump)bi/opsylook at living (tissue)cardi/acrelating to the heartcardi/o/path/ydisease of the heartcardi/o/log/istheart specialistgastr/o/enter/o/logystudy of the stomach and bowelstherm/o/meterinstrument to measure heatappend/ectomyremoval of the appendixcardi/o/logythe study of the hearthepat/o/megalyenlargement of the liverbi/two/malaciasofteningsyn/, sym/together withgynec/ofemalesarc/onongland tissue, fleshvit/oliving, alivechem/ochemical, drugmeta/change, beyondmaxill/oupper jawnect/obind/omatumor, massa-, an-absence of, without, no, notantebeforeconwithcontraopposite, againstdia-across, apart, complete knowledge, throughendo-within, in, innerpostafterpro-, pros-before, forward, in front ofre-back, behindsub-under, belowtrans-across, through, over, beyond-alrelating to, pertaining to-algiapain-ectomyremoval, excision-gnosisabout the patient's condition-gramrecording, picture-icrelating to, pertaining to-itisinflammation-logystudy of-osisabnormal condition-scopyprocess of visual examination