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| Why is medical language necessary? |
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| clear, communicate quickly, comforts patients |
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| German , French , English |
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| Medical language come from two languages. |
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| Greek- epi (upon), onyma (name). mean to put a name on something. Formed by putting a person name who invented or had it. |
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| acro(high) , onyma (name) make a name with the ends ex.) MRI |
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| Greek and Latin prevalent bc:1 |
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| 1: Foundation of western medicine were in ancient greece&rome. Hippocrates founder of western medicine. |
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| Greek and Latin prevalent bc:2 |
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| 2: Latin was the global language of the scientific revolution. |
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| Greek and Latin prevalent bc:3 |
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| Dead languages don't change. |
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| Every medical term is constructed from: |
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| Second to last syllable called. |
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| Third to last syllable is called |
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| Emphasis usually falls on which syllable |
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| the third to last syllable car/di/o/lo/gy , emphasis=o |
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| foundation or subject of the term. Refers to body parts, organs, and fluids. |
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| ending that gives essential meaning to the term. |
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| adding to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root. |
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| used to join a root to a suffix that begins with a consonant. |
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| Potential roots are different but have the same meaning bc. |
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| come from greek and latin words |
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| angl/o , vas/o , and vascul/o |
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| derm/o , dermat/o , cutane/o |
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| pneum/o , pnemon/o , and pulmon/o |
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| G Purpose Roots: gen/o , hydro/o and morph/o |
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| creation/cause, water , and change |
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| G Purpose Roots: myc/o , necr/o and orth/o |
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| fungus, death, and straight |
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| G Purpose roots: path/o , phag/o and plas/o |
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| suffering/disease, eat, formation. |
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| G Purpose Roots: py/o , scler/o ,and sten/o |
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| G Purpose Roots: troph/o, xen/o and xer/o |
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| nourishment/development, foreign, and dry |
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| TO attach (fix/after/below). They describe what the root is doing or what has happened to the root. |
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| Simple Suffixes (Pertaining to): |
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| ac, al, ar, ary, eal, ic, tic, ous (turn word into adjective) |
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| Simple Suffixes (Procedures/conditions): |
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| ia, ism, ium, y (turn roots into nouns). |
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| Simple Suffix (small/diminutive): |
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| icle, ole, ule, ula (tranforms into smaller form) |
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| Complex Suffixes: Medical Science |
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| Complex Suffixes: iatrist and ist |
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| specialist in medicine of , and specialist |
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| Complex Suffixes: logist, and logy |
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| specialist in the study of , and study of |
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SYM, DIS & COND: algia and dynia |
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SYM, DIS & COND: cele and emia |
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| hernia(bulging where it doesn't belong) and blood circulation |
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SYM, DIS & COND: iasis , itis and lysis |
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| presence of , inflammation and loosen(break down) |
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SYM, DIS & COND: malacia, megaly and oid |
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| abonormal softening, enlargement, and resembling |
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SYM, DIS & COND: oma , osis and pathy |
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| tumor , condition and disease |
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SYM, DIS & COND: penia , ptosis and rrhage/rrhagia |
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| deficiency, dropping, and excessive flow |
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SYM, DIS & COND: rrhea , rrhexis and spasm |
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| flow , rupture and involuntary contraction |
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| a procedure done to gain more information in order to diagnose a problem |
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| process done after a diagnoses to fix a problem. |
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| Test Suffix: centesis , gram and graph |
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| punture , written record and instrument used to produce a record |
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| Test Suffix: graphy , meter and metry |
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| writing procedure, instrument used to measure and process of measuring |
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| Test Suffix:scope and scopy |
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| instrument used to look and process of looking |
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| Suffix Treatments: desis and ectomy |
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| binding/fixation and removal |
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| Suffix Treatments: Pexy and plasty |
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| surgical fixation and reconstruction |
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| Suffix Treatments: rrhaphy, stomy and tomy |
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| suture , creation of an opening and incision |
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| Negative prefixes for not |
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| Negative prefixes for against |
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| Negative prefixes for down, away from |
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| Time/Speed prefixes for: before |
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| Time/Speed prefixe for:before on behalf of |
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| Time/Speed prefix for: slow and fast |
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| Time/Speed prefix for:after and again |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for: around |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for: out |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for:through |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for: outside |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for:in, inside |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for: away and toward |
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| Direction and Position prefixes for:upon , beneath and between |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: half |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: one |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: many |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: two and small |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: few and all |
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| Size or Quantity prefix for: over , under and large |
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| General prefixes for: with/together |
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| General prefixes for: bad and good |
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| Suffix first , prefix, then root |
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| a root and combining vowel. (o)-common , (i)-distant second |
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| Use a combing vowel when: |
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| Joining a root to any suffix beginning with a constant. Two roots or two roots when second begins with a vowel. |
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| Don't use a combining vowel when: |
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| To join a root to a suffix that begins with a vowel. |
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