Essential / Anatomy and Physiology vocabulary unit 1

-dys

• excessive, increased

• Bad, difficult, painful

• tissue death

- algia

• Pain, suffering, painful condition

• Bad, difficult, painful

• deficient, decreases

• inflammation

-ectomy

• inflammation

• surgical removal, cutting out, excision

• enlargement

• painful, suffering, painful condition

-megaly

• enlargement

• inflammation

• deficient, decreases

• tissue death

hyper-

• inflammation

• tissue death

• excessive, increased

• abnormal softening

hypo-

• deficient, decreases

• excessive, increased

• abnormal softening

-itis

• tissue death

• surgical removal, cutting out, excision

• pain, suffering, painful condition

• inflammation

-malacia

• abnormal softening

• abnormal condition, disease

• enlargement

• bad, difficult, painful

necrosis

• excessive, increased

• deficient, decreases

• tissue death

• enlargement

-osis

• tissue death

• abnormal condition, disease

• pain, suffering, painful condition

• surgical removal, cutting out, excision