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100
Hyper-
What is excessive?
100
Cardi/o
What is the Heart?
100
-gram
What is a record
100
Inflammation of the tonsils
What is Tonsillitis?
100
Ot/o + Rhin/o + Larng + -ology
What is the study of the ears, nose, and throat?
200
Dys-
What is bad?
200
Arteri/o
What is an artery?
200
-centesis
What is a surgical puncture?
200
Loss of a large amount of blood in a short time
What is a Hemorrhage?
200
Pre- + Nat + -al
What is the time and events before birth?
300
This comes before the "root" word
What is a Prefix?
300
Laryng
What is the throat?
300
Abnormal softening
What is -malacia?
300
Surgical repair of the muscle
What is Myoplasty?
300
Tonsill/o + -itis
What is inflammation of the tonsills?
400
Surrounding
What is Peri-?
400
Lith
What is stone?
400
-necrosis
What is tissue death?
400
Abnormal enlargement of the liver
What is Hepatomegaly?
400
Myel/o + -pathy
What is a pathologic change or disease in the spinal cord?
500
Supra-
What is above or excessive?
500
py/o
What is pus?
500
Abnormal narrowing
What is -stenosis?
500
Above or outside of the ribs
What is Supracostal?
500
Pyr/o + -osis
What is discomfot due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus?