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Medical Terminology Male Reproductive Chapter
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a- | without, not |
| adip/o | fat |
| andr/o | male |
| -al | pertaining to, relating to |
| -algia | pain |
| an- | without, not |
| andr/o | male |
| balan/o | glans penis |
| carcin/o | cancer |
| -cele | hernia; swelling |
| -cide | killing |
| crypt/o | hidden |
| cyst/o | bladder |
| dia- | through, across |
| -dynia | pain |
| dys- | bad; painful; difficult |
| -ectasis | dilation, expansion |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| epididym/o | epididymis |
| erythr/o | red |
| -genesis | forming, producing, swelling |
| gonad/o | gonads, sex glands |
| gon/o | genitals |
| -gram | record, writing |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| hemat/o | blood |
| hem/o | blood |
| hydr/o | water |
| hyper- | excessive, above normal |
| -ia | condition |
| -ic | pertaining to, relating to |
| -iasis | abnormal condition (produced by something specified) |
| -ism | condition |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -lith | stone, calculus |
| lith/o | stone, calculus |
| lip/o | fat |
| -logist | specialist in the study of |
| -logy | study of |
| meat/o | opening, meatus |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| muc/o | mucus |
| neo- | new |
| noct/o | night |
| -oid | resembling |
| olig/o | scanty |
| -oma | tumor |
| orchid/o | testis (plural, testes) |
| orchi/o | testis (plural, testes) |
| orch/o | testis (plural, testes) |
| -osis | abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
| -ous | pertaining to, relating to |
| -pathy | disease |
| -pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| -plasm | formation, growth |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| poly- | many, much |
| post- | after, behind |
| pre- | before, in front of |
| prostat/o | prostate |
| -ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement |
| py/o | pus |
| retro- | backward, behind |
| -rrhage | bursting forth (of) |
| -rrhagia | bursting forth (of) |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -rrhea | discharge, flow |
| -scope | instrument for examining |
| -scopy | visual examination |
| -spadias | slit, fissure |
| -spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
| spermat/o | spermatozoa, sperm cells |
| sperm/o | spermatozoa, sperm cells |
| test/o | testis (plural, testes) |
| -tome | instrument to cut |
| -tomy | incision |
| -uria | urine |
| varic/o | dilated vein |
| vas/o | vessel; vas deferens; duct |
| vesicul/o | seminal vesicle |