Ch. 2

Question 1

-tome

Answer 1

Instrument used to cut slices

Question 2

-tomy

Answer 2

Cut into, incision

Question 3

-ectomy

Answer 3

Cut out, remove, excision

Question 4

-ostomy

Answer 4

Cut a new surgical opening

Question 5

-itis

Answer 5

Inflammation

Question 6

-megaly

Answer 6

Enlarged

Question 7

-graph

Answer 7

Instrument used to record data (telegraph. The machine that spits out the picture)

Question 8

-gram

Answer 8

Picture or record (telegram. Actual picture)

Question 9

Types of tomography:

Answer 9

MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT

Question 10

-algia

Answer 10

Pain

Question 11

-Echo

Answer 11

Reflected sound waves

Question 12

-radi

Answer 12

Radius or ray

Question 13

-pathy

Answer 13

Disease

Question 14

Leuk

Answer 14

White

Question 15

Melan

Answer 15

Black or dark

Question 16

Erythr

Answer 16

Red

Question 17

Cyan

Answer 17

Blue

Question 18

Chlor

Answer 18

Green

Question 19

Xanth

Answer 19

Yellow

Question 20

-osis

Answer 20

Condition, disease, status or process.

Example: condition of the skin = dermatosis

Question 21

-cyte

Answer 21

Cell

Question 22

-blast

Answer 22

Embryonic or immature cell.

Question 23

-emia

Answer 23

Blood condition

Question 24

-logy

Answer 24

Study of…

Question 25

-meter

Answer 25

Instrument to measure or count something.

Question 26

-penia

Answer 26

Poverty. Decrease in. Not enough of.

Question 27

Thrombocytes

Answer 27

Blood clotting cells

Question 28

-osis

Answer 28

Increase in number of blood cells

Question 29

-Hist

Answer 29

Tissues

Question 30

-mania

Answer 30

Madness. (Mental disorders)