Exam 2

• bi-: two
• brady-: slow
• endo-: within
• epi-: above
• macro-: large
• micro-: small
• peri-: around
• tachy-: fast
• tri-: three
• -al: pertaining to
• -cardia: heart
• -cyte: cell
• -ectasis: dilation of an organ
• -gen: produces
• -genesis: the beginning of
• -gram: record, writing
• -graph, -graphy: process of recording
• -ic: pertaining to
• -lysis: separation, loosening
• -megaly: enlargement
• -oid: resembling
• -ole: little
• -osis: abnormal condition
• -pathy: condition, disease
• -phagia: swallowing, eating
• -phylaxis: protect or prevent
• -plasty: surgical repair
• -pnea: breathing,
• -poiesis: formation , production
• -rrhaphy: suture
• -rrhexis: rupture
• -spasm: involuntary contraction
• -stasis: stop, control
• -stenosis: narrowing, stricture
• -tomy: cutting, incision
• -toxic: poison
• -ule: small one
• -um: structure
• aden/o: gland
• agglutin/o: to clump