Med Term - CH 2
115 Terms
Terms
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- append/o
- appendix
- hepat/o
- liver
- -ia
- condition or theory
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- -rrhapy
- suture
- pulm/o
- lung
- lith/o
- stone
- faci/o
- face
- -logist
- specialist
- A physician studyin occurance of disease in a population
- Epidemiologist
- anesthesia
- agent that produces loss of feeling
- -pathy
- disease
- --ar
- pertaining to
- cutane/o
- skin
- -ous
- pertaining to or characterized by
- -er
- one who
- amyl/o
- starch
- micro-
- small
- hemat/o
- blood
- -iatrics
- Medical profession or treatment
- -pexy
- surgical fixation fastening in a fixed position
- trache/o
- trachea
- -al
- pertaining to
- -oid
- resembling
- -tripsy
- surgical crushing
- -oma
- tumor
- chir/o
- hand
- mamm/o
- breast
- -phobia
- abnormal fear
- -ism
- condition or theory
- -iatrician
- practioner
- -rrhexis
- rupture
- -mania
- excessive preoccupation
- Neonatologist
- Specializes in Newborns
- my/o
- muscle
- dermal
- pertaining to the skin
- -iasis
- condition
- -ic
- pertaining to
- -able
- capable of, able to
- -algia
- pain
- vas/o
- vessel
- -ectasis
- dilation, enlargement, stretching of a structure
- -scopy
- visual exam with a lighted instrument
- -ac, -al, -ic
- Pertaining to
- Epidemiologist
- A physician studying occurance of disease in a population
- muc/o
- mucus
- tonsill/o
- tonsil
- -iatry
- treatment or profession
- -stasis
- stopping, controlling
- Oto
- ear
- One who specializes in geriatrics
- Geriatrician
- -ium
- membrane
- oste/o
- bone
- -opia
- vision
- -stomy
- formation of an opening
- Specializes in Newborns
- Neonatologist
- -ectasia
- dilation, enlargement, stretching of a structure
- -tic
- pertaining to
- -iatry
- Medical profession or treatment
- A physician specializing in intensive care
- Intensivists
- pneum/o
- lung
- -y
- state or condition
- -emesis
- vomiting
- lact/o
- milk
- -tomy
- incision (cutting into tissue)
- myel/o
- bone marrow, spinal cord
- -centesis
- surgical puncture
- -ptosis
- prolapse, sagging
- -ive
- pertaining to
- -emia
- condition of the blood
- masto/o
- breast
- angi/o
- vessel
- -osis
- condition (often abnormal condition)
- -ia
- condition
- -lysis
- Process of freeing, destroying or loosening
- -iac
- one who suffers
- -logic, -logical
- Pertaining to
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -eal
- pertaining to
- -ary
- pertaining to
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -tome
- an instrument used for cutting
- prote/o
- protein
- -an
- pertaining to
- -dynia
- pain
- -itis
- inflammation
- -ist
- one who
- Geriatrician
- One who specializes in geriatrics
- -lith
- stone or calculus
- -ible
- capable of, able to
- -malacia
- soft, softening
- aden/o
- gland
- encephal/o
- brain
- muscul/o
- muscle
- lip/o
- fat
- -ac
- pertaining to
- pyr/o
- fire
- -cele
- hernia (protrusion of all or part of organ through cavity wall)
- Intensivists
- A physician specializing in intensive care
- -rrhea
- flow or discharge
- --ose
- sugar
- -eum
- membrane
- cerebr/o
- brain
- dermat/o
- skin
- glyc/o
- sugar
- derm/a
- skin
- -edema
- swelling
- -logist
- one who studies, specialist
- col/o
- colon, large intestine
- -ectomy
- surgical removal, cutting out
- -ase
- enzyme
- bi/o
- life or living
- gastroenterology
- study of diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract
- -spasm
- twitching, cramp
- -iatrics
- treatment or profession
- -logy
- Study or science of
- neoplasm
- spontaneous new growth of tissue
- -rrhagia
- excessive bleeding or hemorrhage
- -rrhage
- excessive bleeding or hemorrhage