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KSS SM 3 VocabTest 3
SM 3 VocabTest 3
Question | Answer |
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–cise, -cis | cut, kill, |
-cide | kill |
-stasis | stop/ control |
-osis | condition of; abnormal condition |
-age | related to |
-iatry | healing (by a physician) |
-therapy | treatment |
-ion | process |
-algia | pain |
-cele | hernia, swelling |
-dynia | pain |
-ectasis | dilation, expansion |
-emia | blood |
-gen | producing, beginning |
-gram | record, picture |
-graph | instrument for recording |
-graphy | process of recording |
-iasis | abnormal condition, formation of, presence of |
-itis | inflammation |
-logy | study of |
-malacia | softening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-meter | instrument for measuring |
-metry | process of measuring |
-oid | resemble |
-oma | rumor |
-pathy | disease |
-penia | decrease, deficiency |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-phasia | speech |
-plegia | paralysis |
-phobia | fear |
-ptosis | prolapse, falling, dropping |
-rrhage | burst forth, hemorrhage |
-rrhea | discharge, flow |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-scopy | examination, view |
-spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching of a muscle |
-blast | early embryonic stage, immature |
-cyte | cell |
-genic | produced by, forming |
-grade | step |
-ician | specialist |
-ist | specialist |
-labile | unstable, perishable |
-logist | specialist |
-plasm | formation, growth |
-receptor, ceptor | receiver |
-stabile | stable, fixed |
-type | class, representative form |
-verse | turn, turning |
AE | above the elbow |
AK | above the knee |
ant | |
anterior | |
A&P | anterior and posterior |
BE | below the elbow |
bilat | bilateral |
BK | below the knee |
ext | exterior, external |
inf | inferior |
int | interior, internal |
L | left |
Lat | lateral |
LE | lower extremity |
LLE | left lower extremity |
LLQ | left lower quadrant |
L&R | left and right |
L-R | left to right |
LRT | lower respiratory tract |
L&U | lower and upper |
LUE | left upper extremity |
LUQ | left upper quadrant |
ML | midline |
post | posterior |
prox | proximal |
R | right |
R/L, R-L | right to left |
RLE | right lower extremity |
RLQ | right lower quadrant |
RUE | right upper extremity |
RUQ | right upper quadrant |
sup | superior |
U/L, U& | L |
UE | upper extremity |
URT | upper respiratory tract |
abn, abnorm | abnormal |
amb | ambulatory |
A&O x 4 | alert and orientated to person, place, time and date |