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VetMed Terminology
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Term | Definition |
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-ALGIA | Pain |
-DYNIA | Pain |
-EMIA | Blood condition |
-IA | Condition, disease |
-ITIS | Inflammation |
-LEPSY | Seizure or attack |
-MALACIA | Softening |
-MEGALY | Enlargement |
-OMA | Tumor, mass |
-OSIS | Abnormal condition |
-PATHY | Disease |
-PENIA | Deficiency |
-PLEGIA | Paralysis |
-PNEA | Breathing |
-SCLEROSIS | Hardening |
-RRHAGE | Bursting forth |
-RRHEA | Flow, discharge |
-RRHEXIS | Breaking open |
-AC, -IAC | Pertaining to |
-AL, -EAL, -IAL | Pertaining to |
-AR | Pertaining to |
-ARY | Pertaining to |
-ELLA | Small |
-IATRIC | Medical treatment |
-IC, -ICAL | Pertaining to |
-INE | Pertaining to |
-OID | Resembling |
-OUS | Characteristic of |
-PLAST | Cell, living substance |
-PLASTY | Formation, plastic repair of |
-ULAR | Pertaining to |
-VOROUS | Eating |
-CENTESIS | Puncture and aspiration |
-ECTOMY | Surgical removal |
-GENIC | Producing, forming |
-GRAPHY | Process of recording |
-LYSIS | Separation |
-OPSY | View of, vision |
-PLASTY (procedure suffix) | Surgical repair |
-SCOPY | Visual examination |
-STOMY | Opening |
-TOMY | Incision, cutting |
A- | No, not, without |
AN- | No, not, without |
ANA- | Up, apart |
ANTI- | Against |
AUTO- | Self |
BI- | Two |
BRADY- | Deficient, under |
CHLORO- | Green |
CHROMO- | Color |
CO- | With, together |
COM- | With, together |
CON- | With, together |
CYANO- | Blue |
DE- | Down, lack of |
DECI- | One-tenth |
DI- | Two |
DIA- | Through, between, apart, across, completely |
DYS- | Bad, painful |
ERYHTRO- | Red |
HEMI- | Half |
HEXA- | Six |
HYPER- | Excessive, above |
LEUKO- | White |
MACRO- | Large |
MAL- | Bad |
MELANO- | Black |
META- | Change, beyond |
MICRO- | Small |
MULTI- | Many |
NEO- | New |
PAN- | All |
PENT- | Five |
POLY- | Many, much |
PSEUDO- | False |
QUADR- | Four |
SUB- | Less than, beneath |
SYM-, SYN- | With, together |
TACHY- | Fast |
TRI- | Three |
ULTRA- | Beyond |
XANTH- | Yellow |
AB- | Away from |
AD- | Toward, near |
ANTE- | Before, forward |
DIA- | Through |
DIS- | Apart, away, from |
EC-, ECTO- | Outside |
ENDO- | Within, in, inner |
EPI- | Above, upon |
EX- | Out |
EXTRA- | Outside of |
IN- | In, into |
INFRA- | Below, beneath |
INTER- | Between |
INTRA- | Within |
META- | Beyond, change |
PARA- | Near, alongside |
PERI- | Surrounding |
POST- | After, behind |
PRE- | Before |
PRO-, PROS- | Before, forward |
RE- | Back again |
RETRO- | Behind, backward |
SUB- | Beneath, less than |
SUPRA- | Above, upper |
TRANS- | Across, through |