MODULE 4 Terminations

Question 1

• acousia

- acousis

Answer 1

sense of hearing

Question 2

• algesia

- odynia

Answer 2

pain

Question 3

-aphia

Answer 3

sense of touch; touch

Question 4

-centesis

Answer 4

surgical puncture to withdraw fluid

Question 5

-cyte

Answer 5

cell

Question 6

-dipsia

Answer 6

thirst

Question 7

• ectasis

- ectasia

Answer 7

dilation;
expansion
bulge

Question 8

• ectopia

- ectopy

Answer 8

malposition; displacement

Question 9

• edema

- oedema

Answer 9

fluid-filled swelling (of an organ or structure)

Question 10

-gamy

Answer 10

marriage; sexual union

Question 11

• geusia

- geustia

Answer 11

sense of taste

Question 12

• iatry

- iatrics

Answer 12

study and treatment

[in specific reference to the medical profession or a physician]

Question 13

-lysis

Answer 13

destruction;
a loosening;
breakdown

Question 14

-lytic

Answer 14

pertaining to the destruction, loosening, or breakdown

Question 15

-necrosis

Answer 15

death

[in particular, in reference to cells, tissues, or organs]

Question 16

• opia
• opy
• opsia
• opsy

Answer 16

visual disorder; vision; a viewing; examination

Question 17

• orexia

- orexis

Answer 17

appetite

Question 18

• osphresia
• osphresis
• osmia

Answer 18

sense of smell

Question 19

-penia

Answer 19

an insufficient amount (of a substance)

Question 20

-ptosis

Answer 20

prolapse [i.e., a slipping down of an organ or part of an organ from its usual location]

Question 21

• rrhagia
• rhagia
• rrhage
• rhage

Answer 21

rapid discharge (of a substance, or from an organ or other location)

Question 22

-rrhaphy

Answer 22

suture

Question 23

• rrhea

- rhea

Answer 23

discharge

Question 24

• rrhexis

- rhexia

Answer 24

rupture

Question 25

-sclerosis

Answer 25

a hardening; a hardening caused by

Question 26

-sepsis

Answer 26

infection

Question 27

-septic

Answer 27

pertaining to infection;

infected

Question 28

-spasm

Answer 28

involuntary movement

Question 29

-stasis

Answer 29

stagnation (of a flow or movement); cessation

Question 30

-stat

Answer 30

device used to control;

agent used to control

Question 31

-static

Answer 31

pertaining to the control(of a substance); pertaining to the stagnation (or, cessation)(of a flow or movement)

Question 32

-stenosis

Answer 32

a narrowing; constriction

Question 33

-therapy

Answer 33

treatment (of an organ, symptom, or disease);

treatment by means (of a substance or process)