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What is the Medical Terminology root for bone?
What is oste/o, oss/o, or orth/o
What is the Medical Terminology definition for -logy?
What is study of
What is a suffix for small?
-icle, -ole, -ule, -ula
What is the suffix for -itis?
What is inflammation
What is the prefix meaning for against?
What is contra or anti-
What is the root for heart?
cardi/o
What is the medical terminology root for joint?
arthr/o
What is the suffix for medical science?
What is -iatrics, -iatry
What does the Medical Terminology suffix -ectomy mean?
What is removal; excision; resection
What are prefixes meaning before?
What is ante-, pre-, pro-
What is the Medical Terminology root for blood?
hem/o , hemat/o
What is the Medical Terminology meaning for enter/o
What is intestines/small intestines
What is a suffix for pain?
What is -algia, -dynia
What is the medical terminology suffix for -penia
What is deficiency.
What are the prefixes for around?
What is circum-, peri-
What is the Medical Terminology root for skin?
What is dermat/o, -derm/o, der, or cutane/o
What is the Medical Terminology definition for the study of the skin?
What is dermatology
What is the suffix for a blood condition?
What is -emia
What is the medical terminolgy suffix for -rrhage &
-rrhagia?
What is excessive flow
What is the meaning of the prefixes ecto-, exo-, extra-
What is outside
What is the Medical Terminology root for the lungs?
pneum/o, pneumat/o, pulmon/o
What is the Medical Terminology meaning for a doctor who specializes in treatment of the heart?
What is cardiologist
What is the medical terminology meaning for
-megaly?
What is Enlargement
What is the definition for presence of?
What is -iasis
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