Chapter 2 of Quick and Easy MT-Combining Forms and suffixes
Terms
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- Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid
- -centesis
- Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
- -ectomy
- Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
- -lysis
- Surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)
- -pexy
- Surgical repair
- -plasty
- Suture (uniting a wound by stitches)
- -rrhaphy
- Visual examination with a lighted instrument (this is not always a surgical procedure)
- -scopy
- Formation of an opening
- -stomy
- An instrument used for cutting
- -tome
- Incision (cutting into tissue)
- -tomy
- Surgical Crushing
- -tripsy
- Gland
- aden/o
- Vessel
- angi/o
- Appendix
-
append/o,
appendic/o - Eyelid
- blephar/o
- Heart
- cardi/o
- Brain
-
cerebr/o,
encephal/o
(cerebr/o sometimes means cerebrum, the main portion of the brain) - Hand
- chir/o
- Colon or large intestine
- col/o
- Skin
-
cutane/o,
derm/a,
dermat/o - Face
- faci/o
- Breast
-
mamm/o,
mast/o - Nerve
- neur/o
- Eye
- ophthalm/o
- Bone
- oste/o
- Ear
- ot/o
- Tonsil
- tonsill/o
- Trachea (windpipe)
- trache/o
- Vessel; ductus deferens (also called vas deferens, excretory duct of the testicle)
- vas/o
- Pain
-
-algia,
-dynia - Hernia (protusion of all or part of an organ through the wall of the cavity that contains it)
- -cele
- Dilation (dilation, enlargement) or stretching of a structure or part
-
-ectasia,
-ectasis - Swelling
- -edema
- Vomitting
- -emesis
- Condition of the blood
- -emia
- Condition
-
-ia,
-iasis - Inflammation
- -itis
- Stone or calculus
- -lith
- Soft, softening
- -malacia
- Excessive preoccupation
- -mania
- Enlargement
- -megaly
- Resembling
-
-oid
(forms adjectives and nouns) - Tumor
- -oma
- Condition (often an abnormal condition; sometimes, an increase)
- -osis
- Disease
- -pathy
- Deficiency
- -penia
- Abnormal fear
- -phobia
- Prolapse (sagging)
- -ptosis
- Excessive bleeding or hemorrhage
-
-rrhage,
-rrhagia - Flow or discharge
- -rrhea
- Rupture
- -rrhexis
-
Twitching,
Cramp - -spasm
-
Stopping,
Controlling - -stasis
-
Capable of,
Able to -
-able,
-ible - Pertaining to
-
-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary,
-eal, -ic, -ive, -tic - Enzyme
- -ase
- One who
-
-er,
-ist - Membrane
-
-eum,
-ium - Condition or theory
-
-ia,
-ism - One who suffers
- -iac
- One who studies; specialist
- -logist
- Study or science of
- -logy
- Vision
- -opia
- Sugar
- glyc/o
- Pertaining to or characterized by
- -ous
- State or condition
- -y
- Starch
- amyl/o
- Blood
- hemat/o
- Milk
- lact/o
- Fat
- lip/o
- Stone
- lith/o
- Small
- micro-
- Mucus
- muc/o
- Protein
-
prote/o,
protein/o - Fire
- pyr/o