Chapter 2 Body Structure Flashcards by Michelle O

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Cancer/carcin/o

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Cancer, a disease characterized by the unregulated, abnormal growth of new cells

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Eti/o

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Cause (of disease)

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Gno/o

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Knowledge

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Iatr/o

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Physician, medicine, treatment

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Lei/o

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Smooth

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Onc/o

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Tumor, mass

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Path/o

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Disease

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Rhabd/o

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Rod shaped, striated

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Somat/o

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Body

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Dia

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Through, conplete

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Dys

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Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored to

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Hyper

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Above, excessive

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Hypo

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Below, incomplete, deficient, under

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Meta

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Change, after, beyond

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Neo

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New

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Pro

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Before

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Chlor/o

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Green

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Xanth/o

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Yellow

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Leuk

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White

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Chrom/o

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Color

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Erythro/o

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Red

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Melan/o

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Black

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Cyan/o

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Blue

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Al, ic, ous

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Pertaining to

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Cyte

Cell

Gen

Agent that produces or causes

Genic

Producing or causing, originating

Logist

One who studies and treats

Megaly

Irregular enlargement

Oid

Resembling

Oma

Tumor, swelling

Osis

Abnormal condition

Pathy

Disease

Plasia

Condition of formation, development, growth

Plasm

Growth, substance, formation

Sarcoma

Malignant tumor

Sis

State of

Stasis

Control, stop, standing

Cytogenic

Producing cells

Cytoid

Resembling a cell

Cytology

Study of cells

Cytoplasm

Cell substance

Dysplasia

Abnormal development

Epithelial

Pertaining to epithelium

Erythrocyte

Red blood cells

Erthrocytosis

Increase in number of red blood cells

Histrology

Study of tissue

Hyperplasia

Excessive development

Hypolasia

Incomplete development

Karyocyte

Cell within a nucleus

Karyoplasm

Substance of a nucleus

Leukocyte

White blood cell

Leukocytosis

Increase in the number of white blood cells

Lipoid

Resembling fat

Myopathy

Disease of the muscle

Neuroid

Resembling a nerve

Organomegaly

Enlargement of an organ

Somatic

Pertaining to the body

Somatogenic

Originating in the body

Somatopathy

Disease of the body

Somatoplasm

Body substance

Systemic

Pertaining to a body system, or the body as a whole

Visceral

Pertaining to internal organs