Meaning: Vessel (usually blood or lymph) 

Example: Angioplasty – a procedure to mechanically widen a narrowed or blocked blood vessels

• Meaning: Aorta
• Example: Aortostenosis– narrowing of the aorta

• Meaning: Artery
• Example: Arteriogram– an xray of an artery

• Meaning: Fatty plaque
• Example: Atheroma– a fatty deposit or plaque within the wall of an artery

• Meaning: Capillaries (the smallest blood vessels)
• Example: capillaroscope – an instrument used to examine capillaries

• Meaning: Heart
• Example: Cardiomyopathy – the general term for diseases that affect the heart muscle

• Meaning: Color
• Example: Hemochromatosis – a condition where excess iron is stored in the body, affecting skin color

• Meaning: Red
• Example: Erythrocyte – a red blood cell

• Meaning: Blood
• Example: Hemoglobin– a protein in red blood cells.

• Meaning: Restriction, deficiency
• Example: Ischemic– a condition or process involving restricted blood flow to a part of the body.

• Meaning: White
• Example: Leukocyte – a white blood cell.

• Meaning: Muscle
• Example: Myocardium – the muscular tissue of the heart.

• Meaning: Vein
• Example: Phlebotomy – the process of making an incision into a vein, typically to draw blood.

• Meaning: Hardening
• Example: Sclerotherapy – a treatment method used to harden and close off abnormal or damaged blood vessels such as varicose veins

• Meaning: Narrowing
• Example: Stenocardia - a condition of chest pain caused by the narrowing of blood vessels to the heart

• Meaning: Clot
• Example: Thrombosis – formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel

• Meaning: Valve
• Example: Valvulopathy – a disease or disorder affecting the heart valves

• Meaning: Vessel
• Example: Vasospasm – A sudden constriction of a blood vessel

• Meaning: Vein
• Example: Venous – related to the veins

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• • Meaning: Sensitivity to pain
  • Example: Analgesic – a medication that reduces or eliminates pain.

• Meaning: Head
• Example: Cephalalgia – a headache.

• Meaning: Brain, cerebrum
• Example: Cerebrospinal – relating to the brain and spinal cord

• Meaning: Cerebellum (part of the brain)
• Example: Cerebellitis – inflammation of the cerebellum.

• Meaning: To shake violently
• Example: Concussion – a violent shaking of the brain, often due to injury

• Meaning: Skull
• Example: Craniotomy – a surgical incision into the skull

• Meaning: Dura mater (outermost layer of the meninges)
• Example: Subdural – located beneath the dura mater

• Meaning: Brain
• Example: Encephalopathy – a disease of the brain.

• Meaning: Sensation, feeling
• Example: Anesthesia – loss of sensation, typically induced for medical procedures.

• Meaning: Ganglion (a cluster of nerve cell bodies)
• Example: Ganglioneuroma – a tumor of a nerve ganglion

• Meaning: Water, fluid
• Example: Hydrocephalus – an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain

• Meaning: Lobe
• Example: Lobectomy – surgical removal of a lobe of the brain

• Meaning: Mind, chin
• Example: Dementia – a decline in mental abilities, typically due to disease or injury

• • Meaning: Meninges (membranes covering the brain and spinal cord)
  • Example: Meningitis – inflammation of the meninges.

• Meaning: One, single
• Example: Monoplegia – paralysis of one limb.

• Meaning: Spinal cord, bone marrow
• Example: Myelitis – inflammation of the spinal cord.

• Meaning: Nerve
• Example: Neurology – the study of the nervous system.

• Meaning: Speech
• Example: Paraphasia – a condition in which a person substitutes incorrect words, sounds, or non-words in their speech.

• Meaning: Gray matter (of the brain or spinal cord)
• Example: Poliomyelitis – an infectious disease affecting the gray matter of the spinal cord.

• Meaning: Pons (a part of the brainstem)
• Example: Pontocerebellar – relating to the pons and cerebellum.

• Meaning: Mind
• Example: Psychiatry – the study and treatment of mental illness

• Meaning: Nerve root
• Example: Radiculodynia – pain caused by irritation or injury to the nerve roots.

• Meaning: Vagus nerve (a cranial nerve)
• Example: Vagotomy – surgical cutting of the vagus nerve.