Ch. 2 Flashcards
-tome
Instrument used to cut slices
-tomy
Cut into, incision
-ectomy
Cut out, remove, excision
-ostomy
Cut a new surgical opening
-itis
Inflammation
-megaly
Enlarged
-graph
Instrument used to record data (telegraph. The machine that spits out the picture)
-gram
Picture or record (telegram. Actual picture)
Types of tomography:
MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT
-algia
Pain
-Echo
Reflected sound waves
-radi
Radius or ray
-pathy
Disease
Leuk
White
Melan
Black or dark
Erythr
Red
Cyan
Blue
Chlor
Green
Xanth
Yellow
-osis
Condition, disease, status or process.
Example: condition of the skin = dermatosis
-cyte
Cell
-blast
Embryonic or immature cell.
-emia
Blood condition
-logy
Study of…
-meter
Instrument to measure or count something.
-penia
Poverty. Decrease in. Not enough of.
Thrombocytes
Blood clotting cells
-osis
Increase in number of blood cells
-Hist
Tissues
-mania
Madness. (Mental disorders)