health sci vocab

• fus/o

  (melting, flowing)
• sex/o

  (sexuality, gender)
• vers/o

  (turning, twisting)
• ab-

  (away from)
• ante-

  (front, before)
• circum-

  (encircling, around)
• dis-

  (to free of, separate, or undo)
• epi-

  (upon, on top of)
• extra-


  (outside of)
• in-


  (into, not)
• para-


  (abnormal, near, beyond)
• peri-


  (around or near)
• sub-


  (under, below)
• super-


  (above, more than normal)
• supra-


  (above, over)
• ultra-

  (beyond, in excess)
• graphy


  (process of making a picture)
• -iatric

  (pertaining to a specialty)
• plasty


  (surgical repair)
• stasis


  (controlling, stopping)
• chiroplasty


  • surgical repair of the hand
• dextral


  • pertaining to the right
• infusion


  • injecting fluids
• podalgia


  • foot pain
• heterosexual


  • pertaining to the opposite sex
• sinistral


  • pertaining to the left
• anteversion


  • turning forward
• abduction


  • move away from the midline
• adhesion


  • two normally separate tissues join together
• anteflexion


  • bending forward
• circumscribed


  • limited in space
• congenital


  • born with
• contraceptive


  • pertaining to against conception
• diathermy


  • heating through
• dissection


  • to cut apart body structures
• epidermal


  • upon the skin
• extra-articular


  • outside the joint
• hemigastrectomy


  • surgical removal of half of the stomach
• heterozygous


  • having two different alleles of a gene
• homolateral


  • pertaining to the same side