Debbie Flashcards
Medical Terminolgy
Instrument to cut
Ex. microtome - an instrument for cutting sections (as of biological tissues)
-tome
Separation; destruction loosening
electrolysis - decomposition
-lysis
Binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
Arthrodesis - The surgical immobilization of a joint or a joint fusion performed to relieve pain
-desis
Crushing - Lithotripsy (kidney stones)
-tripsy
Excision, removal - (gastric resection gastrectomy)
-ectomy
Suture - gastrorrhaphy
Suture of a perforation of the stomach.
-rrhaphy
Surgical puncture - (amniocentesis)
-centesis
Fixation (of an organ) - gastropexy - stomach is sutured to the abdominal wall
-pexy
To break; surgical fracture - arthroclasia - A forcible breaking up of the adhesions in an ankylosis to allow more mobility in the joint.
-clasia, -clasis
Incision - laparotomy - surgical incision of the abdominal wall
-tomy
Surgical repair - plastic surgery (osteoplasty)
-plasty
Forming an opening (mouth) - permanent opening - colostomy - surgical formation of an artificial anus by connecting the colon to an opening in the abdominal wall
-stomy
Rupture - hysterorrhexis - rupture of the uterus
-rrhexis
Abnormal condition - leukosis - especially : any of various leukemic diseases
-osis; (increase; used primarily with blood cells
Paralysis - paraplegia
-plegia
Fear
phobia
Softening - osteomalacia - bones can become thin, brittle
-malacia
Swelling - excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue
-edema
Nourishment, development - nutrition : nurture : growth
dystrophy
-trophy
Discharge, flow - diarrhea
-rrhea
Pain - neuralgia - pain radiating along the course of one or more nerves
-algia, -dynia
Disease - neuropathy - damage, disease, or dysfunction of one or more nerves
-pathy
Poison
-toxic
Enlargement - hepatomegaly - enlargement of the liver
-megaly
Inflammation - arthritis
-itis
Dilation, expansion - appendicectasis
Dilatation of the vermiform appendix. the expansion of a hollow or tubular organ
-ectasis
Decrease, deficiency - leukopenia - abnormally low number of white blood cells
-penia
Vomiting - (a mess)
-emesis
Abnormal condition (produce by something specific) onchocerciasis: infestation with or disease caused by filarial worms
-iasis
Stone, calculus - Urolith - a calculus in the urinary tract
-lith
Hernia, swelling - varicocele is swelling of one or several of the veins that drain the testicle.
-cele
Blood condition - anemia
-emia
Tumor - blastoma
-oma
Bursting (of) - (hemorrhage)
-rrhage, -rrhagia
Narrowing, stricture - Spinal stenosis is a condition in which the spaces in your spine become narrow
-stenosis
After, behind
post-
Without, not
a-, an-
Before, in front
pre-, pro-
Same
homo-, homeo-
Backward, behind
retro-
Large
macro-
Around
circum-, peri-
Three
tri-
In-, within
endo-,intra-
Double
dipl-
Small
micro-
Upper, above
super-
Excess, beyond
ultra-
Through, across - transcutaneous - passing, entering, or made by penetration through the skin
trans-
Under, below - (deficient)
hypo-
