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Medical Terminology for Rad Tech

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Term
Definition
-er, -ist   one who  
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-iatrician   practitioner  
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crin/o   to secrete  
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esthesi/o   feeling or sensation  
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gastr/o   stomach  
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enter/o   intestine  
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ger/a, ger/o, geront/o   elderly  
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onc/o   tumor  
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ophthtalm/o   eye  
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orth/o   straight  
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ped/o   child/foot  
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ot/o   ear  
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path/o, path/y   disease  
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psych/o   mind  
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radi/o   radiation/radius  
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rheumat/o   rheumatism  
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rhin/o   nose  
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-centesis   surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid  
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-ectomy   surgical excision/removal/cutting out  
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-lysis   loosening/ freeing/destroing  
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-pexy   surgical fixation  
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-plasty   surgical repair  
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-rrhaphy   suture  
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-scopy   visual examination with a lighted instrument  
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-stomy   formation of an opening  
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-tome   instrument used for cutting  
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-tomy   incision  
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-tripsy   surgical crushing  
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aden/o   gland  
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angi/o   vessel  
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append/o, appendic/o   appendix  
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bi/o   life, living  
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blephar/o   eyelid  
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cerebr/o, encephal/o   brain  
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cerebr/o   cerebrum  
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chir/o   hand  
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col/o   colon  
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cutane/o, derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o   skin  
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faci/o   face  
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hepat/o   liver  
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mamm/o, mast/o   breast  
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muscul/o, my/o   muscle  
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myel/o   bone marrow or spinal cord  
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oste/o   bone  
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pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o   lungs *pneum/o = gas or air (sometimes)  
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tonsill/o   tonsil  
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vas/o   vessel  
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-algia, -dynia   pain  
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-cele   hernia (protrusion)  
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-ectasia, -ectasis   dilatation, enlargement, or stretching  
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-edema   swelling  
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-emia   condition of the blood  
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-ia, -iasis   condition  
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-lith   stone or calculus  
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-malacia   softening  
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-mania   preoccupation  
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-megaly   enlargment  
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-oid   resembeling  
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-oma   tumor  
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-osis   an abnormal condition (increase)  
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-penia   defficiancy  
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-phobia   abnormal fear  
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-ptosis   sagging. prolapse  
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-rrhage, -rrhagia   excessive bleeding or hemorrhage  
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-rrhea   flow or discharge  
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-rrhexis   rupture  
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-stasis   stopping, controlling  
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-ase   enzyme  
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-eum, -ium   membrane  
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-ia -ism   condition or theory  
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-iac   one who suffers  
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-opia   vision  
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-ous   pertaining to or characterized be  
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-y   state or condition  
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adip/o, lip/o   fat  
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amyl/o   starch  
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glyc/o   sugar  
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-ose   sugar  
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hemat/o   blood  
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lact/o   milk  
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lith/o   stone  
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muc/o   mucus  
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prote/o, protein/o   protein  
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pyr/o   fire  
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