Ch. 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
1
Q
-tome
A
Instrument used to cut slices
2
Q
-tomy
A
Cut into, incision
3
Q
-ectomy
A
Cut out, remove, excision
4
Q
-ostomy
A
Cut a new surgical opening
5
Q
-itis
A
Inflammation
6
Q
-megaly
A
Enlarged
7
Q
-graph
A
Instrument used to record data (telegraph. The machine that spits out the picture)
8
Q
-gram
A
Picture or record (telegram. Actual picture)
9
Q
Types of tomography:
A
MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT
10
Q
-algia
A
Pain
11
Q
-Echo
A
Reflected sound waves
12
Q
-radi
A
Radius or ray
13
Q
-pathy
A
Disease
14
Q
Leuk
A
White
15
Q
Melan
A
Black or dark
16
Q
Erythr
A
Red
17
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Cyan
A
Blue
18
Q
Chlor
A
Green
19
Q
Xanth
A
Yellow
20
Q
-osis
A
Condition, disease, status or process.
Example: condition of the skin = dermatosis
21
Q
-cyte
A
Cell
22
Q
-blast
A
Embryonic or immature cell.
23
Q
-emia
A
Blood condition
24
Q
-logy
A
Study of…
25
-meter
Instrument to measure or count something.
26
-penia
Poverty. Decrease in. Not enough of.
27
Thrombocytes
Blood clotting cells
28
-osis
Increase in number of blood cells
29
-Hist
Tissues
30
-mania
Madness. (Mental disorders)
