Chapter 2 Of Quick And Easy Mt-Combining Forms And Suffixes

Front 1

Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

Back 1

-centesis

Hint 1

Amniocentisis is puncture of the amnion for removing fluid for study or administering treatment to the fetus.

Front 2

Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

Back 2

-ectomy

Hint 2

Appendectomy is excision of the appendix

Front 3

Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

Back 3

-lysis

Hint 3

This suffix is also used in nonsurgical words o mean destruction or dissolving, as in the word hemolysis

Front 4

Surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

Back 4

-pexy

Hint 4

Mastopexy is plastic surgery that fastens breasts in a fixed position to correct sagging.

Front 5

Surgical repair

Back 5

-plasty

Hint 5

Plastic is derived from thesame word toor as -plasty. Plastic surgery repairs, restores, and reconstructs body structures. Mammoplasty is plastic surgery of the breast and is done for a variety of reasons.

Front 6

Suture (uniting a wound by stitches)

Back 6

-rrhaphy

Hint 6

This suffix is not gernerally used in everyday language.

Front 7

Visual examination with a lighted instrument (this is not always a surgical procedure)

Back 7

-scopy

Hint 7

Microscopy is visual examination of very small objects with a magnifying instrument (microscope). The suffix -scope means the instrument.

Front 8

Formation of an opening

Back 8

-stomy

Hint 8

A tracheostomy is an operationthat forms a new opening into the trachea (windpipe).

Front 9

An instrument used for cutting

Back 9

-tome

Hint 9

mocrotome is an instrument used for cutting this sections of tissue for microscope study.

Front 10

Incision (cutting into tissue)

Back 10

-tomy

Hint 10

A tracheotomy is an incision of the trachea through the skin and muscles in the neck that overlie the trachea (windpipe).

Front 11

Surgical Crushing

Back 11

-tripsy

Hint 11

Lithotripsy is surgical crushing of a stone in the bladder.

Front 12

Gland

Back 12

aden/o

Hint 12

Adenoids were so named because they resembled or were thought to be glands.

Front 13

Vessel

Back 13

angi/o

Hint 13

An angiogram is an x-ray film of blood vessels filled with a contrast medium.

Front 14

Appendix

Back 14

append/o,
appendic/o

Hint 14

An appendectomy is excision of the appendix.

Front 15

Eyelid

Back 15

blephar/o

Hint 15

Blepharoptosis is the dropping of the upper eyelid.

Front 16

Heart

Back 16

cardi/o

Hint 16

A cardiac arrest is a heart attack.

Front 17

Brain

Back 17

cerebr/o,
encephal/o

(cerebr/o sometimes means cerebrum, the main portion of the brain)

Hint 17

Cerebral palsy is paralysis caused by a brain defect. Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain.

Front 18

Hand

Back 18

chir/o

Hint 18

Writer's cramp is a type of chirospasm.

Front 19

Colon or large intestine

Back 19

col/o

Hint 19

Coloscopy is visual examination of the colon.

Front 20

Skin

Back 20

cutane/o,
derm/a,
dermat/o

Hint 20

Cutaneous means pertaining to the skin. A dermatologist is a specialist who treats diseases of the skin.

Front 21

Face

Back 21

faci/o

Hint 21

Facial pertains to the face.

Front 22

Breast

Back 22

mamm/o,
mast/o

Hint 22

Mammography is the use of x-rays to diagnose breast diseases. Mastectomy is surgical removal of the breast.

Front 23

Nerve

Back 23

neur/o

Hint 23

A neurosurgeon performs surgery on the nerves and nervou system. A neurotic is affected with a neurosis, a type of nervous disorder.

Front 24

Eye

Back 24

ophthalm/o

Hint 24

An opthalmologist is a specialist who treats diseases of the eye.

Front 25

Bone

Back 25

oste/o

Hint 25

A common type of arthritis of older persons is osteoarthritis, which involves both bones and joints.

Front 26

Ear

Back 26

ot/o

Hint 26

Otiti is inflammation of the tonsils.

Front 27

Tonsil

Back 27

tonsill/o

Hint 27

Tonsilitis is inflammation of the tonsils.

Front 28

Trachea (windpipe)

Back 28

trache/o

Hint 28

A tracheostomy is an operation that forms a new opening into the trachea.

Front 29

Vessel; ductus deferens (also called vas deferens, excretory duct of the testicle)

Back 29

vas/o

Hint 29

Vascular pertains to blood vessels. (Vascular is derived from a latin word that means small vessel.)

Front 30

Pain

Back 30

-algia,
-dynia

Hint 30

Neuralgia is pain along the course of a nerve.

Front 31

Hernia (protusion of all or part of an organ through the wall of the cavity that contains it)

Back 31

-cele

Hint 31

An encephalocele is a hernia of the brain through an opening in the skull.

Front 32

Dilation (dilation, enlargement) or stretching of a structure or part

Back 32

-ectasia,
-ectasis

Hint 32

Angiectasis means dilation of a blood or lymph vessel.

Front 33

Swelling

Back 33

-edema

Hint 33

Edema is a word that means the presence of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the tissues; it is usually applied to an accumulation of excessive fluid in teh subcutaneous tissues, resulting in swelling.

Front 34

Vomitting

Back 34

-emesis

Hint 34

Emesis is a word that means vomitting.

Front 35

Condition of the blood

Back 35

-emia

Hint 35

Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the blood.

Front 36

Condition

Back 36

-ia,
-iasis

Hint 36

Hysteria is a condition so named because long ago hysterical women were thought to suffer from a disturbed condition of the uterus (hyster/o). Psoriasis is diseased condition of the skin marked by itchy lesions (from the Greek psora, which means itch).

Front 37

Inflammation

Back 37

-itis

Hint 37

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix.

Front 38

Stone or calculus

Back 38

-lith

Hint 38

Another name for a gallstone is cholelith.

Front 39

Soft, softening

Back 39

-malacia

Hint 39

Osteomalacia is softening of the bones.

Front 40

Excessive preoccupation

Back 40

-mania

Hint 40

In kleptomania, an excessive preoccupation leads to stealing on impulse.

Front 41

Enlargement

Back 41

-megaly

Hint 41

You may be more familur with mega-. Both mega- and megal- mean large, as in megalopolis, a large city, and megaton, a large explosive force.

Front 42

Resembling

Back 42

-oid
(forms adjectives and nouns)

Hint 42

Mucoid means similar to or resembling mucus. Paranoid means resembling paranoia, a psychotic disorder characterized by delusions or persecution.

Front 43

Tumor

Back 43

-oma

Hint 43

Carcinoma is cancer, or a cancerous tumor.

Front 44

Condition (often an abnormal condition; sometimes, an increase)

Back 44

-osis

Hint 44

Neurosis is a nervous condition (disorder) that is not caused by a demonstrable structual change.

Front 45

Disease

Back 45

-pathy

Hint 45

The suffix -pathy is derived from the same source as many words that contain path/o-for example, pathogenic organisms can cause disease.

Front 46

Deficiency

Back 46

-penia

Hint 46

Calcipenia means a deficiency of calcium

Front 47

Abnormal fear

Back 47

-phobia

Hint 47

Hydrophobia is another term for rabies, a viral disease transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal. It was given the name hydrophobia after it waw observed that stricken animals avoided water, as though they had a fear of it. Actually, rabid animals avoid water because they cannot swallow as a result of the paralysis caused by the virus.

Front 48

Prolapse (sagging)

Back 48

-ptosis

Hint 48

Ptosis means sagging. It also refers to drooping or sagging eyelids.

Front 49

Excessive bleeding or hemorrhage

Back 49

-rrhage,
-rrhagia

Hint 49

Hemmorrhage is abnormal internal or external bleeding.

Front 50

Flow or discharge

Back 50

-rrhea

Hint 50

A urethral or vaginal discharge is a primary feature of gonorrhea.

Front 51

Rupture

Back 51

-rrhexis

Hint 51

Cardiorrhexis literally means ruptured heart. One might think of a lover's heart, but cardiorrhexis is a pathologic conditionin which the heart ruptures.

Front 52

Twitching,
Cramp

Back 52

-spasm

Hint 52

Spasm means involuntary and sudden movement or convulsive muscular contraction. When contractions are strong and painful, they are often called cramps.

Front 53

Stopping,
Controlling

Back 53

-stasis

Hint 53

Stasis means slowing or stopping.

Front 54

Capable of,
Able to

Back 54

-able,
-ible

Hint 54

(adjective) Preventable means capable of being prevented.

Front 55

Pertaining to

Back 55

-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary,
-eal, -ic, -ive, -tic

Hint 55

(adjective) Cardiac, thermal, median, alveolr, salivary, peritoneal, ophthalmic, invasive, and nephrotic mean pertaining to the heart, heat, midle, alveoli, saliva, peritoneum, eye, invasion, and kidney, respectively.

Front 56

Enzyme

Back 56

-ase

Hint 56

(noun) Lactase is an enzyme that breaks down lactose.

Front 57

One who

Back 57

-er,
-ist

Hint 57

(noun) A physical therapist is one who is skilled in physical therapy.

Front 58

Membrane

Back 58

-eum,
-ium

Hint 58

(noun) The peritoneum lines the abdominal cavity. The membrane that lines the heart is endocardium.

Front 59

Condition or theory

Back 59

-ia,
-ism

Hint 59

(noun) Synergism is a condition in which two agents, such as medications, produce a greater effect than the total effects of each agent alone.

Front 60

One who suffers

Back 60

-iac

Hint 60

(noun) A hemophiliac is one who suffers (is afflicted) with hemophilia.

Front 61

One who studies; specialist

Back 61

-logist

Hint 61

(noun) A neurologist is one who specializes in diseases of the nervous system.

Front 62

Study or science of

Back 62

-logy

Hint 62

Biology is the study of life forms.

Front 63

Vision

Back 63

-opia

Hint 63

(noun) Diplopia is double vision.

Front 64

Sugar

Back 64

-ose

Hint 64

(noun) Lactose is a sugar found in milk.

Front 65

Pertaining to or characterized by

Back 65

-ous

Hint 65

(adjective) Cancerous pertains to cancer.

Front 66

State or condition

Back 66

-y

Hint 66

(noun) Atrophy is a condition of wasting away of a cell, tissue, organ, or part.

Front 67

Starch

Back 67

amyl/o

Hint 67

Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down starch.

Front 68

Sugar

Back 68

glyc/o

Hint 68

In hypoglycemia the blood sugar level is too low.

Front 69

Blood

Back 69

hemat/o

Hint 69

Hematemesis si the vomitting of blood.

Front 70

Milk

Back 70

lact/o

Hint 70

Milk is secreted by a woman during lactation.

Front 71

Fat

Back 71

lip/o

Hint 71

Lipids are fats or fatlike substances.

Front 72

Stone

Back 72

lith/o

Hint 72

Lithology is the study of rocks.

Front 73

Small

Back 73

micro-

Hint 73

A microscope is an instrument used to view small (microscopic) objects.

Front 74

Mucus

Back 74

muc/o

Hint 74

Generally, mucuos membranes secrete mucus.

Front 75

Protein

Back 75

prote/o,
protein/o

Hint 75

Proteinuria is an excess of proteins in urine.

Front 76

Fire

Back 76

pyr/o

Hint 76

Pyromaniacs enjoy setting fires or seeing fires burn.