Terminologies Flashcards
1
Q
renal pelvis
A
pyel/o-
2
Q
tissue death
A
-necrosis
3
Q
visual examination
A
-scopy
4
Q
abnormal softening
A
-malacia
5
Q
abnormal condition, disease
A
-osis
6
Q
the surgical creation of an opening to the body surface
A
-ostomy
7
Q
in, within, inside
A
endo-
8
Q
surgical puncture to remove fluid
A
-centesis-
9
Q
deficient, decreased
A
hypo-
10
Q
cutting, surgical incision
A
-otomy
11
Q
process of recording
A
-graphy
12
Q
control, maintenance of a constant level
A
-stasis, -static
13
Q
joint
A
arthr/o-
14
Q
artery
A
arteri/o-
15
Q
excessive, increased
A
hyper-
16
Q
white
A
leuk/o-
17
Q
out of, outside, away
A
exo-
18
Q
study of
A
ology
19
Q
pain
A
dynia-
20
Q
flow or discharge
A
-rrhea
21
Q
development, growth
A
plasi, plaso, -plasia
22
Q
disease, suffering, feeling
A
patho-, pathy-
23
Q
spinal cord or bone marrow
A
myel/o-
24
Q
blue
A
cyan/o-
25
surgical repair
-plasty
26
fat
adip/o-
27
black
melan/o-
28
cell
cyt/o-, / -cyte-
29
fungus
myc/o-
30
tissue
histo-
31
before, front
anter/o-
32
pain, painful condition
-algia
33
red
erythr/o-
34
surgical removal, cutting out
-ectomy
35
bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge
-rrhage
36
bad, difficult, or painful
dys-
37
fever or fire
pyr/o-
38
gland
aden/o-
39
abnormal hardening
-sclerosis
40
pus
py/o-
41
inflammation
-itis
42
gray
poli/o-
43
plaque or fatty substance
ather/o-
44
picture or record
-gram
45
enlargement
-megaly
46
head
cephal/o-
47
lower part of the body, tail
caud/o-
48
rupture
-rrhexis
49
surgical suturing
-rrhaphy
50
muscle
my/o-
51
behind, back
postero-
