Chapter 11 Defs

Question 1

a-

Answer 1

without; not

Question 2

acous/o, audi/o, audit/o

Answer 2

hearing

Question 3

-acusis

Answer 3

hearing

Question 4

-algia, -dynia

Answer 4

pain

Question 5

ana-

Answer 5

against; up; back

Question 6

blephar/o

Answer 6

eyelid

Question 7

choroid/o

Answer 7

choroid

Question 8

chromat/o

Answer 8

color

Question 9

cochle/o

Answer 9

cochlea

Question 10

corne/o

Answer 10

cornea

Question 11

dacry/o, lacrim/o

Answer 11

tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland)

Question 12

dipl-

Answer 12

double

Question 13

dipl/o

Answer 13

double

Question 14

-ectomy

Answer 14

excision, removal

Question 15

-edema

Answer 15

swelling

Question 16

erythr/o

Answer 16

red

Question 17

eso-

Answer 17

inward

Question 18

exo-

Answer 18

outside, outward

Question 19

hyper-

Answer 19

excessive, above normal

Question 20

irid/o

Answer 20

iris

Question 21

kerat/o

Answer 21

horny tissue; hard; cornea

Question 22

-logist

Answer 22

specialist in the study of

Question 23

-logy

Answer 23

study of

Question 24

-malacia

Answer 24

softening

Question 25

-metry

Answer 25

act of measuring

Question 26

my/o

Answer 26

muscle

Question 27

myring/o, tympan/o

Answer 27

tympanic membrane (eardrum)

Question 28

neur/o

Answer 28

nerve

Question 29

ocul/o, ophthalm/o

Answer 29

eye

Question 30

-oma

Answer 30

tumor

Question 31

-opia, -opsia

Answer 31

vision

Question 32

-osis

Answer 32

abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells)

Question 33

ot/o

Answer 33

ear

Question 34

-pathy

Answer 34

disease

Question 35

-plasty

Answer 35

surgical repair

Question 36

presby/o

Answer 36

old age

Question 37

-ptosis

Answer 37

prolapse, downward displacement

Question 38

retin/o

Answer 38

retina

Question 39

-rrhexis

Answer 39

rupture

Question 40

salping/o

Answer 40

tube (usually fallopian or eustachian [auditory] tubes)

Question 41

-salpinx

Answer 41

tube (usually fallopian or eustachian [auditory] tubes)

Question 42

scler/o

Answer 42

hardening; sclera (white of the eye)

Question 43

-scope

Answer 43

instrument for examining

Question 44

-scopy

Answer 44

visual examination

Question 45

-spasm

Answer 45

involuntary contraction, twitching

Question 46

-stenosis

Answer 46

narrowing, stricture

Question 47

-tomy

Answer 47

incision

Question 48

ton/o. .?????

Answer 48

tension

Question 49

-tropia

Answer 49

turning

Question 50

xanth/o

Answer 50

yellow