Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

CHAPTER 3 Medical Terminology - McGraw Hill 2023

        Help!  

Term
Definition
-algia   pain  
🗑
-asthenia   weakness  
🗑
-desis   binding, fusion  
🗑
-dynia   pain  
🗑
-esthesia   sensation  
🗑
-kinesia, -kinesis   movement  
🗑
-phobia   fear  
🗑
-phonia   sound  
🗑
-phoria   feeling, carrying  
🗑
-cele   hernia  
🗑
-cytosis   condition of cells  
🗑
-ectasia, -ectasis   expansion, dilation  
🗑
-edema   swelling  
🗑
-ema   condition  
🗑
-emesis   vomiting  
🗑
-iasis   pathological condition or state, presence of  
🗑
-ism   condition, disease  
🗑
-itis   inflammation  
🗑
-lepsy   seizures  
🗑
-leptic   pertaining to seizures  
🗑
-lithiasis   presence of stones  
🗑
-mania   obsession, madness  
🗑
-megaly   enlargement  
🗑
-oma   tumor, neoplasm  
🗑
-opia   vision  
🗑
-osis   condition, state, process  
🗑
-paresis   slight paralysis, feelings of numbness and tingling  
🗑
-pathy   abnormal condition, disease process  
🗑
-penia   deficiency, small, fewer  
🗑
-philia   attraction, affinity for  
🗑
-phrenia   of the mind  
🗑
-phthisis   wasting away  
🗑
-physis   growing  
🗑
-plegia   paralysis  
🗑
-plegic   pertaining to paralysis  
🗑
-ptosis   falling down, drooping  
🗑
-rrhea   to flow or discharge  
🗑
-rrhagia   excessive bleeding (amount and/or frequency)  
🗑
-rrhexis   rupture  
🗑
-trophic   pertaining to nutrition  
🗑
-trophy   nutrition  
🗑
-blast   immature, forming  
🗑
-cidal, -cide   destroying, killing  
🗑
-crine   secreting  
🗑
-malacia   softening  
🗑
-para   bearing, given birth  
🗑
-parous   bearing, producing offspring  
🗑
-pepsia   digestion  
🗑
-phage, -phagia   eating, devouring  
🗑
-phasia   speaking  
🗑
-phoresis   carrying  
🗑
-plasia   formation, development, growth  
🗑
-plastic   forming  
🗑
-pnea   breath  
🗑
-poiesis   production, formation  
🗑
-poietic   pertaining to production  
🗑
poietin   substance that produces  
🗑
-porosis   lessening the density  
🗑
-rrhage   discharging heavily  
🗑
-rrhea   a flowing, a flux  
🗑
-schisis   splitting  
🗑
-somnia   sleep  
🗑
-spasm   contraction  
🗑
-stalsis   contraction  
🗑
-stasis   stopping, constant, static  
🗑
-stenosis   narrowing  
🗑
-cyte   cell  
🗑
-derma   skin  
🗑
-emia   blood  
🗑
-emic   relating to blood  
🗑
-globin, -globulin   protein  
🗑
-oxia   oxygen  
🗑
-plakia   plaque  
🗑
-plasm, plasia   thing formed, growth  
🗑
-uria   urine  
🗑
-centesis   surgical puncture to remove fluid  
🗑
-ectomy   removal of part or all of an organ or body part  
🗑
-lysis   destruction of  
🗑
-lytic   pertaining to destruction  
🗑
-pexy   fixation, usually done surgically  
🗑
-plasty   surgical repair  
🗑
-rrhaphy   surgical suturing  
🗑
-static, -stasis   maintaining a state  
🗑
-stomy   opening  
🗑
-tome   cutting instrument, segment  
🗑
-tomy   cutting operation, incision  
🗑
-tripsy   crushing  
🗑
-crit   separate  
🗑
-gen   producer  
🗑
-genesis   origin  
🗑
-genic   produced by  
🗑
-gram   a recording  
🗑
-graph   recording instrument  
🗑
-graphy   process of recording  
🗑
-meter   measuring device  
🗑
-metry   measurement  
🗑
-opsy   view of  
🗑
-pheresis   removal  
🗑
-phil   attraction, affinity for  
🗑
-scope   instrument for visual examination  
🗑
-scopy   use of an instrument for viewing  
🗑
-ad   toward  
🗑
-clast, -clasis   break, fracture  
🗑
-form   in the shape of  
🗑
-ic   pertaining to  
🗑
-ics   treatment, practice, body of knowledge  
🗑
-logist   one who studies  
🗑
-logy   study, practice  
🗑
-oid   like, resembling  
🗑
-phylaxis   protection, prevention  
🗑
-plegic   pertaining to paralysis  
🗑
-stat   agent to maintain a state of equilibrium  
🗑
-tropia   turning  
🗑
-tropic   turning toward  
🗑
-tropy   attracted to target structures  
🗑
-version   turning  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
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
Created by: witchbolt
Popular Medical sets