Psw Chapter 7

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Abbreviation

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A shortened format of a word or phrase.

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Anterior

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Located at or toward the front of the body or body part.

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Combining Vowel

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A Vowel added between two root words or between a root and a suffix to make pronunciation easier.

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Distal

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The part farthest from the centre or from the point of attachment.

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Dorsal

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Located at or toward the back of the body or body part.

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Lateral

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The farthest away from the midline of the body (sides)

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Medial

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The closest to the midline of the body.

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Posterior

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The back surface of the body - often used to indicate position of one structure to another.

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Prefix

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A word element placed at the beginning of a word to change the meaning of the word.

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Proximal

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Nearest to the trunk of the body or the point of origin.

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Root

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A word element containing the basic meaning of the word.

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Suffix

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A word element placed at the end of a root to change the meaning of the word.

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Ventral

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Located at or toward the front of the body or body part.

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Word element

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A part of a word.

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a-, an

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Without, not, lack of

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Ab-

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Away from

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Ad-

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To, toward, near

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Ante-

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Before, forward, in front of

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Anti-

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Against

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Auto-

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Self

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Bi-

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Double, two, twice

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Brady-

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Slow

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Circum-

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Around

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Contra-

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Against, opposite

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De-

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Down, from

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Dia-

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Across, through, apart

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Dis-

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Apart, free from

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Dys-

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Difficult, abnormal

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Ecto-

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Outer, outside

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En-

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In, into, within

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Endo-

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Inner, inside

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Epi-

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Over, on , upon

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Eryth-

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Red

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Eu-

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Normal, good, well, healthy

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Ex-

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Out, out of, from, away from

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Hemi-

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Half

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Hyper-

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Excessive, too much, high

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Hypo-

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Under, decreased, less than normal

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In-

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In, into, within, not

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Infra-

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Within

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Inter-

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Between

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Intra-

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Into, with

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Leuk-

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White

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Macro-

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Large

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Mal-

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Illness, disease

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Meg-

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Large

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Micro-

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Small

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Mono-

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One, single

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Muco-

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Mucous

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Neo-

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New

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Non-

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Not

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Olig-

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Small, scant

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Para-

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Beside, beyond, after

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Per-

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By, through

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Peri-

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Around

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Poly-

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Many, much

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Post-

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After, behind

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Pre-

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Before, infront of, prior to

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Pro-

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Before, infront of

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Re-

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Again, backward

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Retro-

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Backward, behind

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Sang-

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Blood

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Semi-

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Half

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Sero-

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Think, watery fluid

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Sub-

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Under, beneath

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Super-

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Above, over, excess

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Supra-

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Above, over

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Tachy-

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Fast, rapid

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Trans-

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Across, over

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Uni-

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