Chapter 3 Disease and Treatment

alg/o, algi/o, algesi/o

pain

carcin/o

cancer, carcinoma

cyst/o

filled sac or pouch, cyst, bladder

lith

calculus, stone

onc/o

tumor

path/o

disease

py/o

pus

pyr/o, pyret/o

fever, fire

scler/o

hard

tox/o, toxic/o

poison

brady-

slow

dys-

abnormal, painful, difficult

mal-

bad, poor

pachy-

thick

tachy-

rapid, fast

xero-

dry

-algia, -algesia

pain

-cele

hernia, localized dilation

-clasis, -clasia

breaking

-itis-

inflammation

-megaly

enlargement

-odynia

pain

-oma, -omas, -omata

tumor

-pathy

any disease of

-rhage, -rhagia

bursting foth, profuse flow, hemorrhage

-rhea

flow, discharge

-rhexis

rupture

-schisis

fissure, splitting

dilation, dilatation

expansion, widening (treatment)

ectasia, ectasis

dilation, dilatation, distension

edema

accumulation of fluid, swelling

lysis

separation, loosening, dissolving, destruction (treatment)

malacia

softening

necrosis

death of tissue

ptosis

dropping, downward displacement, prolapse

sclerosis

hardening

spasm

sudden contraction, cramp

stasis

suppression, stoppage (treatment)

stenosis

narrowing, constriction

toxin

poison

staphylo-

grape-like cluster

strepto-

chain

bacill/i, bacill/o

bacillus

bacteri/o

bacterium

myc/o

fungus, mold

vir/o

virus

aer/o

air/gas

bar/o

pressure

chrom/o, chromat/o

color, stain

chron/o

time

cry/o

cold

electr/o

electricity

erg/o

work

phon/o

sound, voice

phot/o

light

radi/o

radiation, x-ray

son/o

sound

therm/o

heat, temperature

-graph

instrument for recording data

-graphy

act of recording data, evaluation/interpretation of the data

-gram

a record of data

-meter

instrument for measuring

-metry

measurement of

-scope

instrument for viewing or examining

-scopy

examination of

-centesis

puncture, tap

-desis

binding, fusion

-ectomy

excision, surgical removal

-pexy

surgical fixation

-plasty

plastic repair, plastic surgery, reconstruction

-rhaphy

surgical repair, suture

-stomy

surgical creation of an opening

-tome

instrument for incising (cutting)

-tomy

incision, cutting

-tripsy

crushing

-lytic

dissolving, reducing, loosening

-mimentic

mimicking, simulating

-tropic

acting on

anti-

against

contra-

against, oppose

counter-

opposite, against

alg/o, algi/o, algesi/o

pain

chem/o

chemical

hypn/o

sleep

narc/o

stupor

pharm, pharmac/o

drug, medicine

pyr/o, pyret/o

fever

tox/o, toxic/o

poison, toxin

vas/o

vessel