Question | Answer |
crani | pertaining to the skull |
otomy | cutting into |
hyster | uterus |
ectomy | surgical removal of |
dys | difficul, painful, bad |
uria | urine |
hemo | blood |
toxic | poison |
carcin | cancer |
oma | tumor, swelling |
electro | electrical |
encephalo | brain |
graph | diagram, instrument for reading |
osteo | bone |
malacia | softening of a tissue |
para | near, beside, beyond, abnormal, lower half of the body |
plegia | paralysis |
py | pus |
acro | extremities (arms and legs) |
megaly | large, enlarged |
geront | elderly |
ology | the study of |
phagia | to eat, consuming, swallow |
hydro | water |
cele | swelling, tumor, cavity, hernia |
aden | gland, glandular |
oma | tumor |
anti | against |
antitoxic | against poison |
adenoma | tumor in the glands |
hydrocele | swelling due to water (edema) |
dysphagia | difficulty and pain in swallowing and eating |
acromegaly | large arms and legs |
gerontology | the study of the elderly |
pyuria | pus in the urine |
paraplegia | paralyzation in the lower half of the body |
osteomalacia | softening of bone tissue |
electroencephalograph | electrical brain diagram |
carcinoma | swelling/ tumor due to cancer |
hemotoxic | poison in the blood; poisonous blood |
hysterectomy | surgical removal of the uterus |
dysuria | painful and difficult urine |
craniotomy | cutting into the skull |
ophthalm | eye |
ophthalmology | the study of the eye |
pneumono | pertaining to the lungs |
melan | black |
osis | condition, state, process |
pneumonomelanosis | the process of the blackening of the lungs, due to smoking |
arthro | joint |
pathy | disease |
paraosteoarthropathy | abnormal bone-joint disease |
salpingo-oophorocele | a tumor or swelling of in the ovaries and fallopian tubes |
salpingo | tube, fallopian tube |
oophoro | ovary, female egg cell |
idiopathic thrombocytopenia | a self-originating disease that causes deficiency of clotting of the cells |
idio | individual |
thrombo | clot |
penia | lack of, deficiency |
cyto | cell |
pathic | disease |
narcoepilepsy | seizures/convulsions while sleeping |
narco | sleep, numb, stupor |
epi | upon |
lepsy | seizure/convulsion |
postpartum | after labor/birth |
post | after |
partum | labor, birth |
herniorrhaphy | sewing up of a suture |
hernio | rupture |
rraphy | suture of; sewing up of a gap or defect |
dermacyanosis | a condition or process in which the skin turns blue |
derma | pertaining to the skin |
osis | condition, state, process |
cyan(o) | blue |
thoracentesis | surgical puncture of the thorax/ chest to remove fluids |
thora | thorax, chest |
centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluids |