Question | Answer |
ankyl/o | bent, crooked, stiff, fused, fixed, closed |
auto-, aut- | self, same |
bio | life |
-centesis | puncture; surgical puncture to remove fluid |
circum- | around, circular, circular movement |
-clasia, -clasis, -clast | break, breaking |
cry-, cry/o | cold |
-desis | binding, stabilizing, fixation of a bone or join to, tie together; to bind, tie together |
-ec | out, away, outside |
-ectomy | removal of an anatomic structure, literally "to cut out"; excision, resection |
electr/o | electric, electricity |
-esthesia, esthes/o, esthesi/o | perception, feeling, sensitivity |
herni/o | hernia, rupture, protrusion of a part of a structure through the tissues containing it |
lith-, lith/o | stone, calculus, calcification |
-lysis | dissolution (loosening) |
mes, mes/o | middle, mean, intermediacy |
-opsy;-opia; -opsia | vision, view of(Stedman's has excision or removal of) |
-ostomy | artificial, nonphysiologic, or surgical opening; literally to "cut a new mouth" |
-otomy | a cutting operation; literally "to cut into" |
-pexy | fixation, usually surgical; to put in place |
-plasty | surgical procedure for repair of a defect or restoration of form and/or function of a part |
-rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-scope | instrument for viewing, but meaning expanded to include other methods of examination |
-scopy | action or activity that uses an instrument for viewing |
-stasis | stop, stand, control; place |
-stomy | artificial or surgical opening to form a mouth |
sub- | beneath, below, less than normal or typical, inferior (i.e. worse) |
sym-, syn- | together, with, joined |
tom tom/o | to cut |
-tome | a cutting instrument |
-tomy | process of cutting, incision, a cutting operation |
trans- | across, through, beyond |
-tripsy | to crush, rubbing, crushing |