Chapter 3: Body, Diagnosis, Equipment, Instruments, and Treatment

abscess

a going away

alges/i

pain

-algia

pain

ante-

before

anter/o-

before or foremost

aqua-

water

auscult/o

to listen

bacill/o-

rod like

bacteri/o-

rod

bio-

life

bucca-

cheek

cal/o-

heat, heated, or hot

capit/o

head

caud/o-

tail or toward tail

caust/o

burn or heat

cauter/o

to burn or to heat

-centesis

surgical puncture to drain fluid

centr/i

center

cephal/o-

head

-cept-

receiver

cine/o-

movement filming

-cis

cut or to cut

-clysis

irrigation or injection

-coccus

berry

coronal plane

crowning or frontal body cut

cryo-

cold

curett/o

scooping or scraping

cyte-

cell or chamber

deep

most inward

dem/o-

people

depress/o

lower

-desis

binding or to bind

dextr/o-

right

different-

to separate

dist/o-

farther from

doct/o-

to teach or teacher

dol/o-

pain

dors/o-

back

duct/o-

to draw or to lead away

dynam/o-

work or strength

-dynia

pain

echo-

sound

-ectomy

excision or removal

electr/o-

electrical

febro/o

fever

gen/o-

race

geni/o-

chin

-graft

to probe or cut with a knife

-gram

to record

-graphy

procedure of using an instrument to do recording

-graph

instrument

in situ

in position or location

infect/o-

to invade

-ing

procedure of or process of

intro-

within

intus-

within

ion/o-

going or ion movement

ipsi-

equal

ir-

not or lack of

-ish

resembling or related to

-ism

state of or condition of

-ist

specialist

-itis

inflamed or inflammation

-ity

state of

-ize

state of or acts like

lax-

to loosen or loosening

lepto-

thin or slender

-liter

liter

-lysis

destruction, breakdown, declining

mal-

bad, harm, injury

-mata

multiple

-metry

measurement procedure

milli-

one thousandth

minimus-

smallest

minute

small

-mitr/e

head band mitre box

myel/o

spinal cord or bone marrow

nucle/o-

nut

-o/plasty

repair or plastic surgery

-oid

resembling

onc/o-

tumor

-orrhaphy

suturing or repair

-ostomy

mouth like opening produced by surgery

-otomy

cutting, to cut, cut into

-otripsy

crushing or to crush

pall/o-

pale or lack of color

palpat/o-

touching or to touch

palpit-

quivering or fluttering

pharmac/o-

drug relationship, to drug, medicine

-pheresis

withdrawal or to separate

phot/o-

light

physi/o-

function of or nature of

plas-

growth, development, formation

pro-

before

prone-

to bend forward

proxim/o-

close or closest

pyo-

pus

pyret/o-

fever

radi/o-

ray, spoke, xray, radioactivity

ray-

spoke or wavelength