Medical Terminology Midterm #1

-algia

pain or suffering

-Dynia

pain

-ectomy

surgical removal ; cutting out

-gram

picture of record

Hyper-

excessive

-itis

inflammation

-osis

abnormal condition

-ostomy

surgical creation of artificial opening

Pre

before

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhage

bleeding

-rrhaphy

surgical suturing

-rrhea

flow or discharge

-sclerosis

abnormal hardening

Fissure

grove or crack-like sore on skin

Fistula

abnormal passage

myc/o

fungus

Ologist

specialist

Ology

study

pyr/o

fever or fire

py/o

pus

Suppuration

formation of pus

Triage

screening of patient to determine care

Trauma

wound or injury

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat

enter/o

before

caud/o

lower part of body

cehphal/o

head

cyt/o, -cyte

cell

End-, endo

in ; within ; inside

Exo-

out of

hist/o

tissue

Plas/i, plas/o, -plasia

development, growth formation

-stasis

static control

ankyl/o

crooked, bent, stiff

arthr/o

joint

burs/o

bursa

chndr/i/o

cartilage

cost/o

rib

crani/o

skull

-desis

to bind, tie together

kyph/o

bent, hump

lord/o

curve, swayback, bent

lumb/o

lumbar, lower back

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

oss/e, ossi, ost/o, oste/o

bone

scoli/o

curve, bent

spondyl/o

vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

synovi/o, synov/o

synovial membrane, synovial fluid

aort/o

aorta

ather/o

plaque or fatty substance

Brady

slow

Tachy

fast

thromb/o

clot

Peri

surrounding

Heart

card/o, cardi/o

Blood vessels

angi/o, vas/o

Arteries

arteri/o

Capillaries

capill/o

Veins

phleb/o, ven/o

Blood

hem/o, hemat/o

chromat/o

color

coagul/o

clotting, coagulation

-emia

blood, blood condition

erythr/o

red

fibrin/o

fibrin, fibers, threads of a clot

-globin

protein

hem/o, hemat/o

blood, relating to the blood

leuk/o

white

-oid

resembling

-penia

deficiency

phleb/o

vein

plasma, plasm/o

something molded or formed, plasma

-poiesis

to make

-stasis

maintenance of a constant level

anti-

against

-cocci

spherical bacteria

-cyte

cell

-edema

swelling

immun/o

immune, protection, safe

lymph/o

lymph, lymphatic tissue

lymphaden/o

lymph node or gland

lymphangi/o

lymph vessel

-lytic

to destroy

macro-

large

-oma

tumor

phag/o, -phage

eat, swallow

splen/o

spleen

-tic

pertaining to

tox/o

poison, poisonous

Thymus

thym/o

bronch/o, bronchi/o

bronchial tube, bronchus

laryng/o

larynx, throat

nas/o

nose

ox/i, ox/o, ox/y

oxygen

pharyng/o

throat, pharynx

phon/o

sound, voice

pleur/o

pleura, side of the body

-pnea

breathing