MEDT220- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 124 pages long!)
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Suffixes generally indicate a procedure, condition or disease. Tests & procedures used to diagnose and treat variety of conditions. Adjective suffixes: enable word roots to function as adjectives, most globally used suffixes, each means pertaining to , oid means resembling. Pulmon (lung) + -ary: axillary axill (armpit) + -ary, peritoneal. Mucous membrane vs mucus: word root. Suffixes that expresses magnitude either size or number: example: small. Particle alveolus venule (ven= vain) arteriole (arteri= artery) Arterioles = carry blood away from the heart. Trophy: relationship to nourishment or development. Atrophy: a= no; without, reduced functionality of an organ, decrease in the number of volume or cells. Hyperplasia: hyper=above; excess, increase in number. *hypertrophy, hyperplasia, dysplasia, neoplasia * go to powerpoint for pics of cell division. Plasm = structure: neoplasm = new structure tumor. Achondroplasia: type of dwarfism (1:25,000 babies, birth defect that affects babys bone growth, oldest known genetic disorder, chondr/o = cartilage, characterized by: