Diagnosis, Equipment, and Instruments - 3 Flashcards
1
Q
Abscess
A
a going away
2
Q
Alges/i-
A
pain
3
Q
-algia
A
pain
4
Q
Ante-
A
before
5
Q
Anter/o-
A
before or foremost
6
Q
Aqua-
A
water
7
Q
Auscult/o-
A
to listen
8
Q
Bacill/o-
A
rod-like
9
Q
Bacteri/o-
A
rod
10
Q
Bio-
A
life
11
Q
Bucca-
A
cheek
12
Q
Cal/o-
A
heat, heated, or hot
13
Q
Capit/o-
A
head
14
Q
Caud/o-
A
tail or toward tail
15
Q
Caust/o-
A
burn or heat
16
Q
Cauter/o-
A
to burn or to heat
17
Q
-centesis
A
surgical puncture to drain fluid
18
Q
Centr/i-
A
center
19
Q
Cephal/o-
A
head
20
Q
-cept-
A
receiver
21
Q
Cine/o-
A
movement filling
22
Q
-cis
A
cut or to cut
23
Q
-clysis
A
irrigation or injection
24
Q
-coccus
A
berry
25
Coronal Plane
crowning or frontal body cut
26
Cryo-
cold
27
Curett/o-
scooping or scraping
28
Cyte-
cell or chamber
29
Deep
most inward
30
Dem/o-
people
31
Depress/o-
lower
32
-desis
binding or to blind
33
Dextr/o-
right
34
Different-
to separate
35
Dist/o-
farther from
36
Doct/o-
to teach or teacher
37
Dol/o-
pain
38
Dors/o-
back
39
Duct/o-
to draw or to lead away
40
Dynam/o-
work or strength
41
-dynia
pain
42
Echo-
sound
43
-ectomy
excision or removal
44
Electr/o-
electrical
45
Febr/o-
fever
46
Gen/o-
race
47
Geni/o-
chin
48
-graft
to probe or cut with a knife
49
-gram
to record
50
-graphy
procedure of using an instrument to do recording
51
-graph
instrument
52
in stiu
in position or location
53
Infect/o-
to invade
54
-ing
procedure of or process of
55
Intro-
within
56
Intus-
within
57
Ion/o-
going or ion movement
58
Ipsi-
equal
59
Ir-
not or lack of
60
-ish
resembling or related to
61
-ism
state of or condition of
62
-ist
specialist
63
-itis
inflamed or inflammation
64
-ity
state of
65
-ize
state of or acts like
66
Lax-
to loosen or loosening
67
Lepto-
thin or slender
68
-liter
liter
69
-lysis
destruction, breakdown, declining
70
Mal-
bad, harm, injury
71
-mata
multiple
72
-metry
measurement procedure
73
Milli-
one thousandth
74
Minimus-
smallest
75
Minute
small
76
-mitr/e
head band or mitre box
77
Myel/o-
spinal cord or bone marrow
78
Nucle/o-
nut
79
-o/plasty
repair or plastic surgery
80
-oid
resembling
81
Onc/o-
tumor
82
-orrhaphy
suturing or repair
83
-ostomy
mouth-like opening produced by surgery
84
-otomy
cutting, to cut, cut into
85
-otripsy
crushing or to crush
86
Pall/o-
pale or lack of color
87
Palpat/o-
touching or to touch
88
Palpit-
quivering or fluttering
89
Pharmac/o-
drug relationship, to drug, medicine
90
-pheresis
withdrawal or to separate
91
Phot/o-
light
92
Physi/o-
function of or nature of
93
Plas-
growth, development, formation
94
Pro-
before
95
Prone-
to bend forward
96
Proxim/o-
close or closest
97
Pyo-
pus
98
Pyret/o-
fever
99
Radi/o-
ray, spoke, xray, radioactivity
100
Ray-
spoke or wave length
101
Roent/o-
X-ray
102
Sagitt/o-
arrow or arrow-like
103
-scop/e
an instrument that examines or views
104
-scopy
to examine or view
105
Sect/o-
to cut
106
Sinistr/o-
to the left or left
107
Som/o-
body
108
Son/o-
sound
109
Sphygm/o-
pulse
110
Staphyl/o-
grape or grape-like clusters
111
Stereo-
three-dimensional or solid
112
Steth/o-
chest
113
Strept/o-
twisted or twisted chain
114
Strict/o-
drawing or binding
115
Surg/i-
working by hand
116
Suture
sewing together
117
Syn-
together
118
Syncope
to faint or fainting
119
Tax/o-
arrange, to order, to organize, or locate
120
Therap/o-
treating or curing
121
Therm/o-
heat, hot or warm
122
-tion
process of or procedure of
123
-tom/e
cutting instrument
124
Ton/o-
tension, tone, pressure
125
Tox/o-
poison
126
Trauma
wound
127
-tresia
perforation or opening
128
Triage
to sort or classify
129
-tripsy
to crush
130
Trypan/o-
borer, to bore, drill
131
Ventr/o-
belly
132
Vir/o-
poison
133
Vit/o-
alive, life, living
134
-y
procedure of or process of
