Medical Terms

Question 1

-algia

Answer 1

denoting pain in a specified part of the body.

Question 2

dys-

Answer 2

diseased, abnormal, or faulty

Question 3

-ectomy

Answer 3

denoting surgical removal of a specified part of the body.

Question 4

hyper-

Answer 4

high, beyond, excessive, or above normal.

Question 5

hypo-

Answer 5

low, under, beneath, down, or below normal

Question 6

-itis

Answer 6

inflammation of

Question 7

-osis

Answer 7

indicating condition, status, process, whether normal or diseased, or sometimes an increase.

Question 8

-ostomy

Answer 8

surgery to create an opening (stoma) from an area inside the body to the outside.

Question 9

-otomy

Answer 9

cutting into a part of the body

Question 10

-plasty

Answer 10

a surgical procedure for the repair, restoration, or replacement (as by a prosthesis) of a part of the body.

Question 11

-rrhage

Answer 11

excessive or abnormal flow or discharge from an organ or part.

Question 12

-rrhaphy

Answer 12

suture, surgical repair.

Question 13

-rrhea

Answer 13

a combining form meaning “flow,” “discharge”

Question 14

-rrhexis

Answer 14

a rupture,breaking, bursting

Question 15

-sclerosis

Answer 15

A hardening or induration of an organ or tissue

Question 16

-ac

Answer 16

before meals

Question 17

aden/o

Answer 17

gland

Question 18

adip/o

Answer 18

fat, fatty tissue

Question 19

cephal/o

Answer 19

relating to the brain or head.

Question 20

coron/o

Answer 20

heart

Question 21

cyt/o

Answer 21

cell or cytoplasm

Question 22

endo-

Answer 22

arising within a tissue

Question 23

exo-

Answer 23

out of, away from, outer, external, outside, or exterior

Question 24

hist/o

Answer 24

tissue

Question 25

-malacia

Answer 25

abnormal softening of a biological tissue, most often cartilage.

Question 26

-ologist

Answer 26

one who studies and practices

Question 27

-ology

Answer 27

study / science of

Question 28

-oma

Answer 28

tumor

Question 29

path/o

Answer 29

suffering or disease