Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Med Terminology Ch 2
Medical Terminology for Rad Tech
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| -er, -ist | one who |
| -iatrician | practitioner |
| crin/o | to secrete |
| esthesi/o | feeling or sensation |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| enter/o | intestine |
| ger/a, ger/o, geront/o | elderly |
| onc/o | tumor |
| ophthtalm/o | eye |
| orth/o | straight |
| ped/o | child/foot |
| ot/o | ear |
| path/o, path/y | disease |
| psych/o | mind |
| radi/o | radiation/radius |
| rheumat/o | rheumatism |
| rhin/o | nose |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
| -ectomy | surgical excision/removal/cutting out |
| -lysis | loosening/ freeing/destroing |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -scopy | visual examination with a lighted instrument |
| -stomy | formation of an opening |
| -tome | instrument used for cutting |
| -tomy | incision |
| -tripsy | surgical crushing |
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | vessel |
| append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
| bi/o | life, living |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| cerebr/o, encephal/o | brain |
| cerebr/o | cerebrum |
| chir/o | hand |
| col/o | colon |
| cutane/o, derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| faci/o | face |
| hepat/o | liver |
| mamm/o, mast/o | breast |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
| oste/o | bone |
| pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o | lungs *pneum/o = gas or air (sometimes) |
| tonsill/o | tonsil |
| vas/o | vessel |
| -algia, -dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia (protrusion) |
| -ectasia, -ectasis | dilatation, enlargement, or stretching |
| -edema | swelling |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| -ia, -iasis | condition |
| -lith | stone or calculus |
| -malacia | softening |
| -mania | preoccupation |
| -megaly | enlargment |
| -oid | resembeling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | an abnormal condition (increase) |
| -penia | defficiancy |
| -phobia | abnormal fear |
| -ptosis | sagging. prolapse |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bleeding or hemorrhage |
| -rrhea | flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -eum, -ium | membrane |
| -ia -ism | condition or theory |
| -iac | one who suffers |
| -opia | vision |
| -ous | pertaining to or characterized be |
| -y | state or condition |
| adip/o, lip/o | fat |
| amyl/o | starch |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| -ose | sugar |
| hemat/o | blood |
| lact/o | milk |
| lith/o | stone |
| muc/o | mucus |
| prote/o, protein/o | protein |
| pyr/o | fire |
Created by:
sunkissfl
Popular Radiology sets