Diagnostic Word Elements Flashcards by Sunny Hong

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gnos/o, -gnosis

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knowledge

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eti/o, aeti/o

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cause

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esthesi/o, -esthesia

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sensation, feeling

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morb/o

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disease

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nos/o

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disease

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path/o, -pathy

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disease, feeling, suffering

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-path

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one affect by a disease, one who treats a disease

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mort/o

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death

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thanat/o, -thanasia

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death

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necr/o

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dead body, dead

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febr/o

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fever

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pyr/o

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fever, fire

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pyret/o

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fever

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hem/o, hemat/o

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blood

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-emia, -hemia

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condition of blood

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poly-

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many

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multi-

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many

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cal/o

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heat

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rubr/o

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red, redness

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erythr/o

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red, redness

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tum/o

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swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

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onc/o, -oncus

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swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

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edemat/o, -edema

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swelling

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troph/o, -trophy

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nourishment

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tabet/o

wasting

cel/o, -cele

hernia, protrusion

cyt/o

cell

cell/o, cellul/o

cell

cancer/o

cancer, crab

cancr/o

spreading ulcer

carcin/o

cancer, crab

mal/o

bad, faulty

kak/o, cac/o

bad, faulty

phlog/o

inflammation

dol/o

pain

noc/o, noxi/o

pain

alg/o

pain

odyn/o

pain

acu/o

needle, needlelike

oxy/o

sharp, quick, acid, oxygen

chron/o

time

pur/o

pus

rhe/o

flow

-rrhea

a discharge of a fluid

-rhexis

a rupture

-rrhagia, -rrhage, rrhagy

rupture with profuse discharge of a fluid

rhagad/o

tear

-penia

decrease, deficiency

mega-, megal/o, -megaly

enlargement, large

micr/o

small

macr/o

large, long

lys/o, -lysis

breakdown, dissolving

malac/o, -malacia

soft, abnormal softening

-ptosis

downward displacement

-ectasis, -ectasia

dilation, expansion

schiz/o, -schisis

a splitting, a cleft

stas/o, stat/o, -stasis

stoppage, cause to stand

poiet/o, -poiesis

to make, produce

plast/o

formed, molded

-plast

forming cell or organelle

-plasia

condition of formation

fac/o, fic/o, fact/o, fect/o

to make, cause

-gen

to become, be produced

graph/o, -graph, -graphy

writing

grammat/o, gramm/o

something written or drawn

-gram

a record or image of something

metr/o

measure, measurement