Introduction to Medical Language, Body Structure, and Oncology – Flashcards
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Combining vowel
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Placed between word parts usually an o
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Prefix
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Attached to the beginning of a word root
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Suffix
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Attached to the end of of a word root
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Word root
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Core of a word root
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Medical terms built from word roots
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Composed of word roots and or prefixes suffixes and combining vowels and can be literally translated
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Medical terms not built from word parts
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Eponyms acronyms modern technological terms and words of Greek and Latin Irgun that cannot be easily translated
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Acronym
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Medical term formed from the first letter of several words that can be spoken as a whole word
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Eponym
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Medical term based on the name of an individual
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Carcin
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Cancer
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Cyt
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Cell
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Epitheli
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Epithelium
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Hist
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Tissue
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Lip
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Fat
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My
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Muscle
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Neur
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Nerve
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Onc
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Tumor
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Path
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Disease
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Plasm
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Growth
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Sarc
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Flesh connective tissue
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Stasis
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Control stop
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Viscer
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Internal organs
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-al
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Pertaining to
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-genic
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Producing originating causing
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-logist
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Resembling
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-logy
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One who studies and treats
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-oid
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Study of
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-oma
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Tumor
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-a. -e. -y
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No meaning
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Meta
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Beyond
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Neo
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New
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Carcinogenic
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Producing cancer
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Carcinoma
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Cancerous tumor
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Cytogenic
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Producing cells
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Cytoid
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Resembling cell
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Cytology
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Study of cells
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Epithelial
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Pertaining to epithelium
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Epithelioma
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Tumor composed of epithelial tissue
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Histology
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Study of tissue
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Lipoid
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Resembling fat
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Lipoma
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Tumor composed of fat tissue
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Metastasis
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Beyond control
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Myoma
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Tumor composed of muscle tissue
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Neopathy
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New disease
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Neuroma
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Tumor composed of nerve tissue
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Oncologist
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Physician who studies and treats tumors
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Oncology
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Study of tumors
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Pathogenic
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Producing disease
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Pathologist
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Physician who studies disease
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Pathology
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Study of disease
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Sarcoma
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Tumor of connective tissue
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Visceral
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Pertaining to internal organs
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Benign
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Not mallignant
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Chemotherapy
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Treatment of cancer by using pharmaceuticals
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Diagnosis
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Identification of disease
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Inflammation
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Localized protective responses to injury or tissue does traction characterized by redness
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Malignant
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Tending to become progressively worse
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Prognosis
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Prediction of a possible outcome
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Radiation therapy
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Treatment of cancer with a radioactive substance
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Remission
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Lessening or absence of signs of disease
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Carcinoma
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CA
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Chemotherapy
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chemo
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Diagnosis
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Dx
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Metastasis
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mets
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Prognosis
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Px
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Radiation therapy
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