Ch. 4 Suffixes

Question 1

acr/o

Answer 1

extremities, top, extreme point

Question 2

blephar/o

Answer 2

eyelid

Question 3

col/o

Answer 3

colon

Question 4

erythr/o

Answer 4

red

Question 5

isch/o

Answer 5

to hold back

Question 6

my/o

Answer 6

muscle

Question 7

myel/o

Answer 7

spinal cord, bone marrow

Question 8

ophthalm/o

Answer 8

eye

Question 9

ot/o

Answer 9

ear

Question 10

phag/o

Answer 10

to eat, swallow

Question 11

arthralgia

Answer 11

joint pain

Question 12

otalgia

Answer 12

ear pain

Question 13

neuralgia

Answer 13

nerve pain

Question 14

myalgia

Answer 14

muscle pain

Question 15

-cele

Answer 15

hernia

Question 16

-centesis

Answer 16

surgical puncture to remove fluid

Question 17

thoracentesis

Answer 17

surgical puncture to remove fluid from the thoracic cavity

Question 18

amniocentesis

Answer 18

surgical puncture to remove fluid from the amnion

Question 19

abdominocentesis

Answer 19

surgical puncture to remove fluid from the peritoneal cavity

Question 20

-dynia

Answer 20

pain

Question 21

pleurodynia

Answer 21

pain in the chest wall muscles that is aggravated by breathing

Question 22

-ectomy

Answer 22

excision, removal, resection

Question 23

laryngectomy

Answer 23

excision of the larynx

Question 24

-emia

Answer 24

blood condition

Question 25

-malacia

Answer 25

softening

Question 26

osteomalacia

Answer 26

softening of the bones

Question 27

-megaly

Answer 27

enlargement

Question 28

acromegaly

Answer 28

gigantism… endocrine disorder where the pituitary gland produces excessive growth hormone

Question 29

-penia

Answer 29

deficiency

Question 30

erythropenia

Answer 30

deficiency of red blood cells

Question 31

-plasia

Answer 31

development, formation, growth

Question 32

achondroplasia

Answer 32

defect in cartilage and bones of the aems and legs fail to grow to normal size

Question 33

-plasty

Answer 33

surgical repair

Question 34

angioplasty

Answer 34

An intervention in which an artery is opened with a balloon that is inserted. Stents are the put in place to keep it open.

Question 35

-ptosis

Answer 35

falling, dropping, prolapse

Question 36

blepharoptosis

Answer 36

drooping of the upper eyelids or the breasts

Question 37

-stasis

Answer 37

stopping, controlling

Question 38

metastasis

Answer 38

beyond stopping (spread of a malignant tumor beyond its original site)

Question 39

hemostat

Answer 39

surgical clamp

Question 40

-stomy

Answer 40

opening to form a mouth (stoma)

Question 41

tracheostomy

Answer 41

opening from the trachea

Question 42

-tomy

Answer 42

incision, cutting into

Question 43

laparotomy

Answer 43

incision into the abdomen (large incision into peritoneal cavity, often done on an exploratory basis)

Question 44

-trophy

Answer 44

development, nourishment

Question 45

hypertrophy

Answer 45

cells increase in size, not number (increase development)

Question 46

leukocytes

Answer 46

eosinophils, basophils, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes

Question 47

eosinophils

Answer 47

Granulocytes… 3%…active and increased in number in allergic conditions such as asthma

Question 48

basophils

Answer 48

Granulocytes… 1%…function is unclear, but number of these cells increases in the healing phase of inflammation

Question 49

neutrophils

Answer 49

Granulocytes… 50%-60%… Disease-fighting cells aka phagocytes

Question 50

lymphocytes

Answer 50

Agranulocytes… 32%…fight disease by producing antibodies, thereby destroying foreign cells.

Question 51

monocytes

Answer 51

Agranulocytes… 4%…engulf and destroy cellular debris after neutrophils have attacked foreign cells (leave bloodstream to become macrophages)