Medical Terminology Question & Answers

-algia - ANSWER: pain -asis - ANSWER: condition, usually abnormal -celce - ANSWER: hernia -centesis - ANSWER: puncture and aspiration of -cyte - ANSWER: cell -ectasis - ANSWER: dilation, expansion -ectomy - ANSWER: excision, removal -emia - ANSWER: blood condition -genesis - ANSWER: development, production, creation -genic - ANSWER: producing, causing -gram - ANSWER: record -graph - ANSWER: diagram, instrument for recording -graphy - ANSWER: process of recording -iasis - ANSWER: condition of -ism - ANSWER: condition -itis - ANSWER: inflammation -logy - ANSWER: study of -lysis - ANSWER: destruction of, decomposition -megaly - ANSWER: enlargement -meter - ANSWER: instrument for measuring -oma - ANSWER: tumor -osis - ANSWER: condition -pathy - ANSWER: disease -penia - ANSWER: deficiency -phagia - ANSWER: eating, swallowing -phasia - ANSWER: speech -phobia - ANSWER: an exaggerated fear -plasty - ANSWER: surgical repair -plegia - ANSWER: paralysis -ptosis - ANSWER: falling, sagging, dropping down -rrhage, -rrhagia - ANSWER: excessive flow -rrhaphy - ANSWER: stitching, suture -rrhea - ANSWER: profuse flow, discharge -scope - ANSWER: instrument for visual examination -scopy - ANSWER: examination using a scope -stasis - ANSWER: maintenance, maintaining a constant level -stomy, -ostomy - ANSWER: creation of an opening -tomy, -otomy - ANSWER: incision, cutting into -uria - ANSWER: condition of the urine a-, an- - ANSWER: without, not, lack of ab- - ANSWER: away from abdomin (o) - ANSWER: abdomen ad- - ANSWER: to, toward, near aden (o) - ANSWER: gland adren (o) - ANSWER: adrenal gland angi (o) - ANSWER: vessel ante- - ANSWER: before, forward, in front of anterior (ventral) - ANSWER: at or toward the front of the body or body part anti- - ANSWER: against artertio (o)q - ANSWER: artery athr (o) - ANSWER: joint auto- - ANSWER: self bi- - ANSWER: two, twice, double brady- - ANSWER: slow broncho - ANSWER: bronchus, bronchi card, cardi (o) - ANSWER: heart careplan - ANSWER: a written guide about the person's care cephal (o) - ANSWER: head chole, chol (o) - ANSWER: bile chondr (o) - ANSWER: cartilage circum- - ANSWER: around cognitive function - ANSWER: involves memory, thinking, reasoning, ability to understand, judgment, and behavior colo - ANSWER: colon, large intestine contra- - ANSWER: against, opposite contracture - ANSWER: the lack of joint mobility caused by abnormal shortening of a muscle cost (o) - ANSWER: rib