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Medicine:Terminology
HS1-Ferguson-Doleyres:Medical Terminology2
| 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 |
Created by:
Natasha Jansen
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