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23 Cards in this Set
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What is a prefix? Where is it found in a medical term? What does it tell us? |
Beginning location, time, number and status |
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what is a word root? what does it tell us? |
beginning or middle body part, color, general meaning of a term
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what is a suffix where is it found in a medical term what does it tell us |
end procedure, condition, desease and disorder |
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otomy |
surgical incision |
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ostomy |
surgical create an artificial opening |
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ectomy |
surgical removal |
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plasty |
surgical repair |
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sclerosis |
abnormal hardening |
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stenosis |
abnormal narrowing |
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necrosis |
tissue death |
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itis |
inflammation |
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ia |
condition |
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us |
noun ending |
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rrhaphy |
to suture or to stitch |
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rrhexis |
to rupture |
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megaly |
abnormal enlargement |
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thrombus |
blood clot stuck to the inside of a blood vessel |
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embolus |
foreign particle that circulates in blood stream |
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aneurysm |
a balloon like enlargement of an artery |
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atria |
upper heart chamber |
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ventricles |
lower heart chamber |
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tricuspid |
right heart valve |
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bicusbid |
left heart valve / mitral |
