Chapter 23: Greek Compound Suffixes 2 (bases/suffixes)

Question 1

-ectomy

Answer 1

cutting out, removal

Question 2

-graphy

Answer 2

writing, imaging

Question 3

-logy

Answer 3

study or science of

Question 4

-nomy

Answer 4

study or science of

Question 5

-pathy

Answer 5

disease, disorder, feeling

Question 6

-plasty

Answer 6

shaping, reconstruction

Question 7

-stomy

Answer 7

cutting of an opening or mouth

Question 8

-therapy

Answer 8

treatment

Question 9

-tomy

Answer 9

cutting

Question 10

-trophy

Answer 10

nourishment

Question 11

angi-

Answer 11

vessel

Question 12

antr-

Answer 12

cavity

Question 13

blephar-

Answer 13

eyelid

Question 14

cac-

Answer 14

bad

Question 15

cheil-

Answer 15

lip

Question 16

enter-

Answer 16

intestine

Question 17

heli-

Answer 17

sun

Question 18

ker-, kerat-

Answer 18

horn, cornea

Question 19

lept-

Answer 19

thin, delicate

Question 20

lymph-

Answer 20

water, lymph

Question 21

nyct-

Answer 21

night

Question 22

onc-

Answer 22

tumor, swelling

Question 23

ophthalm-

Answer 23

eye

Question 24

osm-

Answer 24

smell

Question 25

ost-, oste-

Answer 25

bone

Question 26

phleb-

Answer 26

vein

Question 27

phon-

Answer 27

sound, voice

Question 28

proct-

Answer 28

anus, rectum

Question 29

pyl-, pyle-, pylor-

Answer 29

gate, entrance, lower stomach

Question 30

pyr-, pyret-

Answer 30

fire, fever

Question 31

rhin-, -rrhin-

Answer 31

nose

Question 32

salpinx, salping-

Answer 32

tube

Question 33

splen-

Answer 33

spleen

Question 34

tac-, tax-

Answer 34

to order, to arrange

Question 35

tele-

Answer 35

from far away, at a distance

Question 36

trache-

Answer 36

rough, windpipe