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LOFM Chapter 6
The Language of Medicine Ninth Edition (Review of Ch 5)
Question | Answer |
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-ectasis -ectasia | stretching, dilation, dilatation, widening |
-emesis | vomiting |
-lysis | destruction, breakdown, separation |
-pepsia | digestion |
-phagia | eating, swallowing |
-platy | surgical repair |
-ptosis | drooping; sagging; protruding |
-ptysis | spitting |
-rrhage -rrhagia | bursting forth(of blood) |
-rrhaphy | suture (repair) |
-rrhea | flow, discharge |
-spasm | involuntary contraction of muscles |
-stasis | stopping; controlling |
-stenosis | tightening, stricture, norrowing |
-tresia | opening |
cholangi/o | bile vessel |
herni/o | hernia--protrusion of an organ or the muscular wall of an organ through the cavity that contains it |