Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0071 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-stenosis: Narrowing
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The idea
The suffix stenosis names abnormal narrowing of the passage its root identifies.
In practice
Angiostenosis is narrowing of a blood vessel.
Where people slip
Stenosis describes a passage, so it attaches to hollow structures rather than solid ones.
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