GENERAL ANATOMY
URINARY SYSTEM
Question
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-ectasis
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dia-
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-uria
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urethr/o
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dia-: Prefix meaning through, throughout, or completely, as in diachronic (over a period of time), diagnosis (to completely define the nature of a disease), and dialysis (cleansing the blood by passing it through a special machine).
Detailed explanation-2: -The English prefix per-, which means “through, ” appears in hundreds of English vocabulary words, such as perish and person. You can remember that the prefix per-means “through” via the word permanent, for something that is permanent stays intact “through” the years.
Detailed explanation-3: -a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek (diabetes; dialect) and used, in the formation of compound words, to mean “passing through” (diathermy), “thoroughly, ” “completely” (diagnosis), “going apart” (dialysis), and “opposed in moment” (diamagnetism).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency responsible for providing and coordinating defence and military intelligence to the Indian Armed Forces.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dia is defined as going through or across or between. An example of dia used as a prefix is in the word “diagnosis, ” which means a thorough analysis of a disease.