Test 1 Flashcards
(48 cards)
1
Q
binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
A
desis
2
Q
excision, removal
A
ectomy
3
Q
separation; destruction; loosening
A
lysis
4
Q
surgical repair
A
plasty
5
Q
suture
A
rrhaphy
6
Q
forming an opening (mouth)
A
stomy
7
Q
instrument to cut
A
tome
8
Q
incision
A
tomy
9
Q
crushing
A
tripsy
10
Q
record, writing
A
gram
11
Q
instrument for recording
A
graph
12
Q
process of recording
A
graphy
13
Q
instrument for examining
A
scope
14
Q
visual examination
A
scopy
15
Q
pain
A
algia or dynia
16
Q
hernia, swelling
A
cele
17
Q
swelling
A
edema
18
Q
vomiting
A
emesis
19
Q
inflammation
A
itis
20
Q
softening
A
malacia
21
Q
enlargement
A
megaly
22
Q
tumor
A
oma
23
Q
abnormal condition; increase (primarily used with blood cells)
A
otis
24
Q
disease
A
pathy
25
decrease, deficiency
penia
26
fear
phobia
27
plegia
paralysis
28
discharge, flow
rrhea
29
under, below; deficient
hypo
30
large
macro
31
small
micro
32
one
mono
33
around
circum; peri
34
divides the body into an anterior and posterior section
frontal plane
35
divides the body into top and bottom sections
transverse plane
36
runs through the center of the body, dividing the body into right and left halves
midsagittal plane
37
anteroposterior
AP
38
biopsy
Bx, bx
39
computed tomography
CT
40
left lower quadrant
LLQ
41
left upper quadrant
LUQ
42
magnetic resonance imaging
MRI
43
position emission tomography
PET
44
right lower quadrant
RLQ
45
right upper quadrant
RUQ
46
symptom
Sx
47
treatment
Tx
48
ultrasound, ultrasonography
US
