Anatomy - medical terms
Terms
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- -emia
- blood, ex. anemia (literally without blood, when someone doesn't have enough iron in their blood due to not enough red blood cells.)leukemia ("white blood", having too many white blood cells)
- - itis
- inflammation, ex. gastritis, hepititis
- -oma
- tumor, ex. glycoma, lipoma
- - osis
- condition, disease, increase
- - pathy
- disease, ex. osteopathy
- - ectomy
- excision, remove, ex. hysterectomy
- - plasty
- surgical correction, ex. rinoplasty (nose job)
- - scopy
- inspection, examination
- - oid
- like
- aer-
- air
- angio-
- vessel
- arth-
- joint
- cardi-
- heart
- cerebro-
- brain
- cephal-
- head
- cerv-
- neck
- chrondr-
- cartilage
- cost-
- ribs
- cyt-
- cell
- derm-
- skin
- encephal-
- brain
- enter-
- intestine
- gastr-
- stomach
- glyco-
- sweet
- hem, hemat-
- blood
- hepat-
- liver
- hyster-
- uterus
- leuk-
- white
- lip-
- fat
- my-
- muscle
- nephro-
- kidney
- osteo-
- bone
- pneum-
- lung, air
- viscer-
- organ
- ab-
- away from, from
- a, an
- without, not
- anti-
- against
- bi-
- two, double, both
- co- con-
- together, with
- ec- ecto-
- out, outside
- endo-
- within
- epi-
- upon, at, in addition to
- ex-
- out, away from
- hyper-
- excessive, above, beyond
- hypo-
- beneath, below, deficient
- peri-
- around, about
- semi-
- half
- sub-
- under, beneath, below
- trans-
- across, over
- tri-
- three