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arthr ✔✔joint carcin ✔✔cancer cardi ✔✔heart cephal ✔✔head electr ✔✔electricity gastr ✔✔stomach hepat ✔✔liver my ✔✔muscle

oste ✔✔bone rhin ✔✔nose

• ectomy ✔✔surgical removal
• gram ✔✔record or picture
• itis ✔✔inflammation
• logy ✔✔study of
• megaly ✔✔enlarged
• pathy ✔✔disease

dermat/o- ✔✔skin

• oma ✔✔tumor, mass
• dynia ✔✔pain
• algia ✔✔pain
• asthenia ✔✔weakness
• cele ✔✔protrusion
• cytosis ✔✔abnormal cell condition
• ectasis ✔✔dilated

-edema ✔✔swelling -ia ✔✔state or condition -iasis ✔✔abnormal condition -ism ✔✔state of -lith ✔✔stone -lysis ✔✔to destroy -lytic ✔✔destruction -malasia ✔✔abd softening -osis ✔✔abnormal condition

-stasis ✔✔stopping -stenosis ✔✔narrowing -toxic ✔✔poison -uria ✔✔urine discoloration -clasia ✔✔surgical breaking -desis ✔✔surgical fusing -ostomy ✔✔cutting into -pexy ✔✔surgical -plasty ✔✔surgical repair

-rrhaphy ✔✔suture -tome ✔✔instrument to cut -tripsy ✔✔surgical crushing -centesis ✔✔puncture to withdraw fluid -graphy ✔✔process of recording -manometer ✔✔instrument for measuring pressure -meter ✔✔instrument for measuring -metry ✔✔process of measuring

-genesis ✔✔produces generates -genic ✔✔producing -globin or -globulin ✔✔protein -kinesia ✔✔movement -oid ✔✔resembling -opia ✔✔vision -opsy ✔✔view of -osmia ✔✔sense of smell

-oxia ✔✔oxygen -para ✔✔to bear (offspring) -partum ✔✔childbirth -pepsia ✔✔digestion -phagia ✔✔eating, swallowing -phil ✔✔attracted to -phonia ✔✔voice -plasia ✔✔formation of cells -plasm ✔✔formation

-iatric ✔✔medical specialty -iatrist ✔✔physician -iatry ✔✔treatment, medicine -ician ✔✔specialist -ist ✔✔specialist -logist ✔✔one who studies anti- ✔✔against brady- ✔✔slow pachy- ✔✔thick

tachy- ✔✔fast ante- ✔✔before, in front of endo- ✔✔within, inner epi- ✔✔above ex- ✔✔outward extra- ✔✔outside of hypo- or infra- ✔✔below intra- ✔✔within

hypo- ✔✔insufficient micro- ✔✔small mono- ✔✔one multi- ✔✔many nulli- ✔✔none pan- ✔✔all primi- ✔✔first quadri- ✔✔four

tri- ✔✔three ultra- ✔✔excess uni- ✔✔one auto- ✔✔self eu- ✔✔normal, good hetero- ✔✔different per- ✔✔through -cardia ✔✔heart -carditis ✔✔heart inflammation

brachi/o ✔✔arm caud/o ✔✔tail cephal/o ✔✔head cervic/o ✔✔neck chondr/o ✔✔cartilage crani/o ✔✔skull cubit/o ✔✔elbow dist/o ✔✔farthest away from beginning of structure dors/o ✔✔back of body

femor/o ✔✔femur gastr/o ✔✔stomach genit/o ✔✔genitals glute/o ✔✔buttocks ili/o ✔✔ilium infer/o ✔✔below, lower inguin/o ✔✔groin later/o ✔✔side