JJ Medicine Medical Terminology The Basics Lesson 2

-plasia

Growth in numbers

meta-

change

-plasty

Surgical repair

chemo-

Chemical

electro-

pertaining to electric charge

-plasm

growth, substance, formation

-ic/-eal

pertaining to

-stasis / -static

maintenance of "normal" conditions

-dynamic

changing (continually)

-lytic / -lysis

destruction

-penia

decreased; below or lower than normal

-emia

relating to blood condition

-ectomy

excision, removal

-otomy

incision; cutting

-ostomy

to make a hole

-scopy

to view

-graph(y)

process of recording

-gram

recording

-therapy

treatment

echo-/sono-

sound

dys-

problem

mal-

bad

-itis

inflammation

-oma

tumor

-trophy

growth in size

-pathy

disease of

-osis/ia

abnormal condition

-ism

state of

-megaly

enlarged