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
Module 3
Medical Terminology Module 3 Fall Semester 2025
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abscess | a going away |
| alges/i- | pain |
| -algia | pain |
| ante- | before |
| anter/o- | before or foremost |
| aqua- | water |
| auscult/o- | to listen |
| bacill/o- | rod-like |
| bacteri/o- | rod |
| bio- | life |
| bucca- | cheek |
| cal/o- | heat, heated, or hot |
| capit/o- | head |
| caud/o- | tail or toward tail |
| caust/o- | burn or heat |
| cauter/o- | to burn or to heat |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to drain fluid |
| centr/i- | center |
| cephal/o- | head |
| -cept- | receiver |
| cine/o- | movement filming |
| -cis | cut or to cut |
| -clysis | irrigation or injection |
| -coccus | berry |
| coronal plane | crowning or frontal body cut |
| cryo- | cold |
| curett/o- | scooping or scraping |
| cyte- | cell or chamber |
| deep | most inward |
| dem/o- | people |
| depress/o- | lower |
| -desis | binding or to bind |
| dextr/o- | right |
| different- | to separate |
| dist/o- | farther from |
| doct/o- | to teach or teacher |
| dol/o- | pain |
| dors/o- | back |
| duct/o- | to draw or to lead away |
| dynam/o- | work or strength |
| -dynia | pain |
| echo- | sound |
| -ectomy | excision or removal |
| electr/o- | electrical |
| febr/o- | fever |
| gen/o- | race |
| geni/o- | chin |
| -graft | to probe or cut with a knife |
| -gram | to record |
| -graphy | procedure of using an instrument to do recording |
| -graph | instrument |
| in situ | in position or location |
| infect/o- | to invade |
| -ing | procedure of or process of |
| intro- | within |
| intus- | within |
| ion/o- | going or ion movement |
| ipsi- | equal |
| ir- | not or lack of |
| -ish | resembling or related to |
| -ism | state of or condition of |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflamed or inflammation |
| -ity | state of |
| -ize | state of or acts like |
| lax- | to loosen or loosening |
| lepto- | thin or slender |
| -liter | liter |
| -lysis | destruction, breakdown, declining |
| mal- | bad, harm, injury |
| -mata | multiple |
| -metry | measurement procedure |
| milli- | one thousandth |
| minimus- | smallest |
| minute | small |
| -mitr/e | head band or mitre box |
| myel/o- | spinal cord or bone marrow |
| nucle/o- | nut |
| -o/plasty | c |
| -oid | resembling |
| onc/o- | tumor |
| -orrhaphy | suturing or repair |
| -ostomy | mouth-like opening produced by surgery |
| -otomy | cutting, to cut, cut into |
| -otripsy | crushing or to crush |
| pall/o- | |
| palpat/o- | |
| palpit- | |
| pharmac/o- | |
| -pheresis | |
| phot/o- | |
| physi/o- | |
| plas- | |
| pro- | |
| prone- | |
| proxim/o- | |
| pyo- | |
| pyret/o- | |
| radi/o- | |
| ray- | |
| roent/o- | |
| sagitt/o- | |
| -scop/e | |
| -scopy | |
| sect/o- | |
| sinistr/o- | |
| som/o- | |
| son/o- | |
| sphygm/o- | |
| staphyl/o- | |
| stereo- | |
| steth/o- | |
| strept/o- | |
| strict/o- | |
| surg/i- | |
| suture | |
| syn- | |
| syncope | |
| tax/o- | |
| therap/o- | |
| therm/o- | |
| -tion | |
| -tom/e | |
| ton/o- | |
| tox/o- | |
| trauma | |
| -tresia | |
| triage | |
| -tripsy | |
| trypan/o- | |
| centr/o- | |
| vir/o- | |
| vit/o- | |
| -y |
Created by:
user-1976060