Chapter 11 Defs Flashcards
a-
without; not
acous/o, audi/o, audit/o
hearing
-acusis
hearing
-algia, -dynia
pain
ana-
against; up; back
blephar/o
eyelid
choroid/o
choroid
chromat/o
color
cochle/o
cochlea
corne/o
cornea
dacry/o, lacrim/o
tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland)
dipl-
double
dipl/o
double
-ectomy
excision, removal
-edema
swelling
erythr/o
red
eso-
inward
exo-
outside, outward
hyper-
excessive, above normal
irid/o
iris
kerat/o
horny tissue; hard; cornea
-logist
specialist in the study of
-logy
study of
-malacia
softening
-metry
act of measuring
my/o
muscle
myring/o, tympan/o
tympanic membrane (eardrum)
neur/o
nerve
ocul/o, ophthalm/o
eye
-oma
tumor
-opia, -opsia
vision
-osis
abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells)
ot/o
ear
-pathy
disease
-plasty
surgical repair
presby/o
old age
-ptosis
prolapse, downward displacement
retin/o
retina
-rrhexis
rupture
salping/o
tube (usually fallopian or eustachian [auditory] tubes)
-salpinx
tube (usually fallopian or eustachian [auditory] tubes)
scler/o
hardening; sclera (white of the eye)
-scope
instrument for examining
-scopy
visual examination
-spasm
involuntary contraction, twitching
-stenosis
narrowing, stricture
-tomy
incision
ton/o. .?????
tension
-tropia
turning
xanth/o
yellow