Review for MidtermUnits 1 – 3

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Unit One

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the extremities(arms and legs)

acr/oacr/o

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cancer (epithelial)

carcin/ocarcin/o

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heart

cardi/ocardi/o

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cell

cyt/ocyt/o

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skin

dermat/o or derm/adermat/o or derm/a

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stomach

gastr/ogastr/o

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large

megal/o or -megalymegal/o or -megaly

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small

micr/o or micro-micr/o or micro-

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disease

path/o or -pathypath/o or -pathy

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ability

-able-able

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surgical removal – excision

-ectomy-ectomy

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condition in the blood

-emia-emia

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inflammation

-itis-itis

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enlarged

-megaly-megaly

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instrument that measures or counts

-meter-meter

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small

-micro-micro

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large

-macro-macro

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study of

-ology-ology

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specialist in the study of

-ologist-ologist

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instrument for looking

-scope-scope

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process of using a scope

-scopy, -oscopy-scopy, -oscopy

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condition

-osis-osis

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making a new surgical opening

-ostomy-ostomy

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abnormally low amount

-penia-penia

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water

hydro-hydro-

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Unit Two

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immature orembryonic cell

blast/o or -blastblast/o or -blast

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electricity

electr/oelectr/o

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origin or cause

eti/oeti/o

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tissue

hist/ohist/o

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enlarged, big

megal/omegal/o

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x-ray

radi/oradi/o

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sound waves

son/oson/o

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slices

tom/otom/o

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pain

-algia-algia

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cell

-cyte-cyte

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image or picture

-gram-gram

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instrument

-graph-graph

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instrument used to cut slices

-tome-tome

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incision (cut into)

-tomy-tomy

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Unit Three

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gland

aden/oaden/o

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reflected sound

ech/oech/o

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fatty, porridge-like

ather/oather/o

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life

bi/obi/o

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head

cehpal/ocehpal/o

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skull

crain/ocrain/o

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brain

encehpal/oencehpal/o

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fat

lip/olip/o

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soft / soft condition

malac/o or -malaciamalac/o or -malacia

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spinal cord or bone marrow

myel/omyel/o

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tumor

onc/oonc/o

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cancer of connective tissue

sarc/osarc/o

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herniation

-cele-cele

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pain

-dynia-dynia

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resembling

-oid-oid

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tumor

-oma-oma

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surgical repair

-plasty-plasty

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development

-trophy-trophy

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against

anti-anti-

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above, abnormally high

hyper-hyper-

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below, abnormally low

hypo-hypo-

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bad

mal-mal-

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beyond

meta-meta-

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