IMPORTANT COMBINING FORMS-CANCER-LESSON 126

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1. Aleveol/o- means a small bag or a sac
Alveolar means pertaining to a small bag.

2. Cac/o- means dreadful or bad
Cachexia means ill health and underfeeding. This may happen after a chronic disease.
-hexia means habit.

3. Carcin/o- means cancer or cancerous.
Carcinoma in situ means a cancer confined to a small area.

4. Cauter/o- means burn or heat.
Electrocauterization is a process of burning with electricity.

5. Chem/o- means chemical substance or a drug.
Chemotherapy is a treatment method of cancer using chemical substances i.e. drugs.

6. Cry/o- means cold or ice.
Cryotherapy is a treatment method of cancer using cold or ice in a fluid bag.

7. Fibr/o- means fibers.
Fibrosarcoma is a type of cancer of fibers and flesh portion of the body.

8. Follicul/o- means tiny glandular bags or sacs.
Follicular is pertaining to small glandular sacs or pouches or bags.

9. Fung/o- means fungus or yeast or toadstool or mushroom.
Fungating tumor is a tumor that appears like a toadstool or mushroom.

10. Medull/o- means spongy or malleable part.
Medullar tumor appears spongy inner portion of the body.

11. Mut/a- means a change by genetic.
Mutation is a process of heritable change.

12. Mutagen/o- means producing a genetic or inheritable change.
Mutagenic is pertaining to the production of change by genetic in a cell.

13. Onc/o- means cancerous growth.
Oncology is the study of cancer.

14. Papill/o- means nipple-like.
Papillary is pertaining to nipple like expansion.

15. Pharmac/o- means chemical or drug.
Pharmacology is the study of drugs.

16. Plas/o- means configuration of arrangement
Dysplastic is abnormal configuration or arrangement of formation.

17. Ple/o- means additional or extra or many.
Pleomorphic is pertaining to many varieties of cells i.e. the cancer is configured by a multiplicity of cells.

18. Polyp/o- means cyst or tumor or nodule.
Polypoid tumor is a cystic tumor.

19. -oid means resembling. Ex. Polypoid.

20. Radi/o- means beams or x-rays.
Radiotherapy is therapy of treating cancer using x-ray beams.

21. Sarc/o- means soft tissue, connective tissue.
Osteosarcoma is the tumor of fleshy tissue and bones.

22. Scrirrh/o- means tough or stiff.
Scirrhous is pertaining to toughness.

In the next lesson we will learn about important cancer Suffixes and Prefixes. Okay.

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