medical terminology midterm study guide

-algia

Pain

brady-

Slow

-ectomy

Surgical removal

-osis

Abnormal condition

-ostomy

Surgically creating an opening

-pathy

Disease, suffering

-rrhage

-rrhagia

Bursting forth

-rrhaphy

To suture or stitch

-rrhea

Abnormal flow or discharge

-rrhexis

Rupture

tachy-

Fast

caud/o

Tail or lower part of the body

NPO

Nothing by mouth

Nil per os

Cyan/o

Blue

erythem/o

erythr/o

rube/o

Red

dextr/o

Right

-osis

-ism

-esis

Abnormal condition

-ia

-ago

-ion

abnormal condition

-malacia

Abnormal softening

a-

an-

Without

-necrosis

Death to tissue

-centesis

puncture

-pexy

Suspension, fixation

-tome

Instrument used to cut

-graph

Record or picture, instrument used to record

-graphy

Process or recording

eu-

Good, or normal

congenital

Present at birth

hepat/o

Liver

hyster/o

uterus

nephr/o

ren/o

Kidney

ot/o

Ear

-paresis

Incomplete or partial paralysis

Acute

Disease or symptom with rapid onset, severe course and relative short duration

DX

diagnosis

HX

History

Infectious

Caused by pathogenic organism

nosocomial

Hospital acquired infection

Oto

Ear

Col/o

Large intestine

Enter/o

Small intestine

-desis

Fixation, fusion

-asthenia

Lack or loss of strength

tax/o

Coordination

-clouns

Spasms of muscle contractions

Immune/o

Free/exempt

-edema

Swelling

-plegia

plegic

paralysis

Kines/o

kinisi/o

kinesia

movement or motion

Troph/o

Nourishment

Flexion

decreasing the angle between two bones

Supination/supine

rotation of the arm so that the palm is up/ positioned on the back

pronation/ prone

rotation of arm so that the palm is down/ positioned on belly

angi/o

blood or lymph vessel

Arter/o

artery

Ather/o

plague

Cor/o

coron/o

heart

-cyte

cell

embol/o

something inserted

-emia

blood condition

Kyph/o

outward curvature. hump

-stasis

control, stop

Thromb/o

clot forming cell

vascul/o

blood or lymph cell

Arrhythmia

irregularity or loss of normal rhythm of the heart

Aneurysm

localized weak spot

CHF

Congestive heart failure

MI

Myocardial infarction (heart attack)

CABG

Coronary artery bypass graft

Aut/o

self

Benign

not recurring nonmalignant

-lytic /

-lysis

Destroy/ destruction

onc/o

tumor

-static

At rest/ to slow or stop

enter/o

small intestine

Palpation

using hands to feel texture and size

-tension

Blood pressure

Chondr/o

cartilage

Hemi-

Half

-pena

Breathing

Para-

Near. beside

Metastasis

Harmful, tending to spread

Rhin/o

Nose

Ankyl/o

bent or crooked

Orth/o

Straight

Bx. bx.

Biopsy

Acro

extremity

Poly

Many, much

ankylosis

Progressive stiffening

Radius/ ulna humorous

Arm bones (know which is which)

Tibia/ fibula femur

Leg Bones (know which is which)

-Cele

herniation

Adduct

Moving the arm toward the midline of body

OU

Each eye

sx

symptom

Hyster/o

uterus

stenosis

narrowing

post

after

pre

before

Thorax

Chest