Terminology—prefixes and suffixes:

(a) entero
(b) toxemia
(c) gastro
(d) hepatic
(e) intra
(f) -osis
(g) -cide
(h) -itis


(a)having to do with the intestines.
(b)tox/tocic emia/blood; a condition of having toxins in the blood.
(c) having to do with the stomach (gastroenteritis: with a, c, and h "an inflammation of the stomach
and intestines").
(d) having to do with the liver (hepatitis, with d and h, "inflammation of the liver").
(e)within (intramuscular, within the muscle).
(f) having a condition of a disease (salmonellosis).
(g) killing, as in insecticide, parasiticide, and so on.
(h) inflammation, keratitis

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