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Cardiovascular

Combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes for the Cardiovascular system.

TermDefinition
angi vessel (blood)
aort/a aorta; largest artery
arteri/o artery
arterial/o arteriole (smallest artery)
ather/o plaque; fatty buildup
bol/o cast; throw
cardi/o heart
coagul/o coagulation; clotting
constrict/o narrowing
coron/o heart
cyan/o blue
dilat/o to enlarge or expand
electr/o electricity
lumin/o light
my/o muscle
phleb/o vein
plumon lung
rhythm/o rhythm; heartbeat
sept/o wall; partition
son/o sound
sphygm/o pulse
systol/o contraction
tens/o stretched; strained
thromb/o clot
tom/o to cut
vas/o vessel (duct)
vascul/o blood vessel
ven/i, ven/o vein
ventricul/o ventricle
venul/o venule (small vein)
a, an not; without
anti against
brady slow
dia through, complete
echo reflected sound
epi on, over, upon
hyper above, above normal, excessive
hypo bellow, bellow normal, deficient
per through
peri around surrounding
trachy fast
trans across
ic pertaining to
al pertaining to
our pertaining to
ary pertaining to
ic pertaining to
ous pertaining to
ant substance that produces
action process; condition
e noun suffix with no meaning
ectomy surgical removal; incision
emic pertaining to a blood condition
gram record; image
graphy process; recording
ia condition
in, ine chemical, chemical compound, substance
ism inflammation
ive substance that produces
lytic pertaining to breakdown or destruction
meter measure
or whom takes action or does somthing
osis abnormal condition
pathy disease
plasty surgical repair
sclerosis hardening; thickinging
stomy surgical repair
tension pressure
tomy process of cutting; incision
trophy condition of growth or development
um, us structure, thing, tissue
version to turn
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