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CCMA
Medical Term.
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Arth/o | Joint |
Cardi/o | Heart |
Enter/o | Small Intestine |
Gatsr/o | Stomach |
Hepat/o | Liver |
Neur/o | Nerve |
Hem/o | Blood |
Hemat/o | Blood |
My/o | Muscle |
Muscul/o | Muscle |
Angi/o | Vessel |
Vaso | Vessel |
Vascul/o | VesseL |
Derm/o | Skin |
Dermato | Skin |
Cutaneo | Skin |
Pneum/o | Lung |
Pulmon/o | Lung |
Path/o | Disease |
Gen/o | Creation |
Sten/o | Narrowing |
Myc/o | Fungus |
Scler/o | Hard |
Root | The basic meaning to a term |
Combining Vowel | Adds a root to a root or a root to a suffix |
Suffix | If the suffix begins a vowel, do not use a combing vowel |
Direction Read | Rear to Front |
Combing Form | A root plus a combing vowel |
Prefix | Adds addition meaning to the beginning of a term |
-ac | Pertaining to |
-al | Pertaining to |
-ary | Pertaining to |
-ous | Pertaining to |
-ic | Pertaining to |
-ar | Pertaining to |
-eal | Pertaining to |
-ia | Condition of |
osis | Condition of |
-ism | Condition of |
-icle | Small |
-ole | Small |
-ule | Small |
-algia | Pain |
-dynia | Pain |
-itis | Inflammation |
-emia | Blood Condition |
-lysis | Loosen or Breakdown |
-megaly | Enlargement |
-penia | Deficiency |
-rrhage | Excessive Flow |
-spasm | Involuntary Contraction |
-graph | Instrument used to produce a record |
-scope | Instrument used to look |
-scopy | Process of looking |
-ectomy | Removal |
-plasty | Reconstruction |
-stomy | Creation of an opening |
-tomy | Incision or cut |
a- | Not |
anti- | Against |
brady- | Slow |
Tachy | Fast |
peri | Around |
trans- | Through |
intra, endo- | Inside |
Epi | Upon |
Sub | Beneath |
inter- | Between |
hyper- | Over |
hypo- | Under |
oligo- | Few |
dys- | Bad, Difficult, Painful |
poly- | Many |
extra- | Outside |
dia- | Trough |
de- | Down, Away |