Chapter 2 Flashcards by Shannon Feal

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epitheli/o

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epithelium

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cyt/o

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cell

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cyan/o

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blue

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chrom/o

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color

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chlor/o

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green

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meta-

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after, beyond, change

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system/o

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system

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viscer/o

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internal organs

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cancer/o, carcin/o

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cancer

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onc/o

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tumor, mass

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-stasis

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control, stop, standing

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dys-

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painful, abnormal, difficult, labored

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xanth/o

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yellow

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my/o

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muscle

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rhabd/o

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rod-shaped, striated

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kary/o

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nucleus

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-megaly

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enlargement

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-pathy

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disease

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organ/o

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organ

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melan/o

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black

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lip/o

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fat

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-plasm

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growth, substance, formation

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sarc/o

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flesh, connective tissue

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pro-

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before

-oma

tumor, swelling

gno/o

knowlege

iatr/o

physician, medicine (also means treatment)

-osis

abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)

-logist

one who studies and treats (specialist, physician)

-logy

study of

-cyte

cell

-gen

substance or agent that produces or causes

path/o

disease

-genic

producing, originating, causing

hyper-

above, excessive

dia-

through, complete

lei/o

smooth

hypo-

below, incomplete, deficient, under

neo-

new

somat/o

body

eti/o

cause (of disease)

-sarcoma

malignant tumor

erythr/o

red

neur/o

nerve

leuk/o

white

hist/o

tissue

fibr/o

fiber

-al, -ic, -ous

pertaining to

-plasia

condition of formation, development, growth

-sis

state of

-oid

resembling