Quick and easy medical terminology chapter 2 Questions and Answers Graded A

Quick and easy medical terminology chapter 2 Questions and Answers Graded A -er, -ist - ANS- One who -iatrician - ANS- practitioner -logist - ANS- one who studies, specialist -ac, -al, -ic, -ical - ANS- pertaining to -logic, -logical - ANS- Pertaining to the study of -iatrics, -iatry - ANS- medical profession or treatment -logy - ANS- Study or science of esthesi/o - ANS- Feeling or sensation ger/a, ger/o, geront/o - ANS- Elderly Ne/o, nat/o - ANS- New, birth obstetr/o - ANS- midwife onc/o - ANS- tumor orth/o, ped/o - ANS- Straight, child path/o - ANS- Disease ped/o - ANS- Child radi/o - ANS- Radiation, or radius crin/o - ANS- to secrete -Centesis - ANS- surgical puncture to remove fluid -ectomy - ANS- excision, removal -lysis - ANS- Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying -pexy - ANS- Surgical fixation -plasty - ANS- surgical repair -rrhaphy - ANS- suture (uniting a wound by stitches) -scopy - ANS- visual examination -stomy - ANS- formation of an opening -tome - ANS- instrument used to cut -tomy - ANS- incision -tripsy - ANS- surgical crushing aden/o - ANS- Gland angi/o - ANS- vessel (blood) bi/o - ANS- life or living blephar/o - ANS- eyelid cerebr/o, encephal/o - ANS- Brain chir/o - ANS- Hand faci/o - ANS- face mamm/o, mast/o - ANS- Breast muscul/o, my/o - ANS- Muscle myel/o - ANS- bone marrow, spinal cord pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o - ANS- Lungs *pneum/o sometimes means "air" or "gas" vas/o - ANS- vessel; vas deferens; duct -algia, -dynia - ANS- Pain -cele - ANS- Hernia -ectasia, -ectasis - ANS- dilation, stretching, widening -edema - ANS- swelling -emesis - ANS- vomiting -emia - ANS- blood condition -ia, -iasis - ANS- Condition -malacia - ANS- softening