VTHT 1205

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VTHT 1205

• Chapter 4 - 1
• Verbal Roots
• Dr. Dipa Brahmbhatt VMD, MpH

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Verbal Roots

• Action or description
• Activity
• Action
• Condition

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AUDI/O-

• AUDI/O/LOGY
• Hearing/CV/Science/Study of
• The study of Hearing

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BIO-

• BIO/GENESIS
• LIFE/ORIGIN (development)

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CAUS- / CAUT-

• CAUS/TIC
• Burn/relating to
• CAUT/ERY
• Burn/Instrument

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-CLAS- or -CLAST

• OST/EO/CLASIS
• Bone/CV/Break
• Surgical fracture

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DUCT-

• BILE - DUCT
• LEAD

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-ECTAS-

• Chole/cyst/ectas/ia
• Bile/bladder/dilate/state or condition
• Dilate
• Distention of gall bladder

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-EDEM-

• Edem/a/tous lungs
• Swelling
• E.g. interstitial pneumonia

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-ESTHES-

• An/esthes/ia
• Sensation

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-GEN/O-

• Path/o/gen
• Producing

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-IATR/O-

• Iatrogenic
• Caused by treatment

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KIN/E-, KIN/O-

• Kinetics
• Study of Motion (movement)

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-LYSIS, -LYS/O-, -LYTIC

• Lysis
• Destruction (breakdown) of a cell

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-MORPH/O-

• Poly/morph/ic
• Many forms (form, structure, shape)

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-OP/IA, -OPS/IA, -OPSY

• Chromatopsia
• Color vision
• A condition in which objects seem abnormally
  colored/tinged

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-PATH, -PATHY

• Enteropathy
• (e.g. Protein losing enteropathy IBD)
• Intestinal disease

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-PHAGE, PHAG/O-

• Macrophage Large phagocyte (Eating cells)

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-PHAS-

• Dys/pha/sia
• Difficulty in speaking (speech)

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-PHIL

• Acid/o/phil/ic
• Acid loving (affinity, love for)

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-PLEGIA

• Para/plegia
• Paralysis of hind legs

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-POIESES

• Leuk/o/poieses
• WBC production (formation)

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SCHIST/O-, SCHIZ/O-
Schist/o/cyte Broken (split/cleft/division) red
cell

• Schistocytes Mechanisms Diseases
• Shearing by fibrin strands
• Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia
• Disseminated intravascular coagulation
• Hemangiosarcoma
• Glomerulonephritis
• Myelofibrosis
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome
• Hypersplenism
• Turbulent blood flow
• Congestive heart failure
• Valvular stenosis
• Caval syndrome in heart worm disease
• Hemangiosarcoma
• Intrinsic abnormalities
• Chronic doxorubicin toxicosis
• Severe iron deficiency anemia
• Pyruvate kinase deficiency

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SPASM/O-

• Spasmolysis
• Relieving spasm e.g. colics horses

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-STASIS

• Hemostasis
• Stoppage (standing still) of blood flow

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TROPH/O-

• Trophism
• Nutrition (nourishment/food)