flashcards
Agia
pain, suffering
Dys
Bad, Difficult, or painful
Ectomy
Surgical removal, cutting out
Hyper
Excessive, increased
Hypo
Deficient , decreased
Itis
Inflammation
osis
abnormal condition, disease
Ostomy
the surgical creation of an Artificial opening to the body surface
otomy
cutting surgical incision
Platsty
Surgical repair
rrhage
bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge
rrhaphy
surgical suturing
rrhea
flow or discharge
rrhexis
rupture
sclerosis
abnormal hadening
word root
contains the basic meaning of the term.in medical terminology, this word party usually, but not always, indicates the involved body part. for example, the word root meaning stomach is GASTR-
combining form
The combining form of the word root gastr is gastr/o
suffixes as noun endings
-a, -um, -y, -e, -us
suffixes meaning “pertaining to”
- ac
- eal
- for
- al
- ical
- ory
- an
- ial
- ous
- ar
- ic
- tic
- ary
- ine
suffixes meaning “abnormal condition”
- ago
- iasis
- osis
- esis
- ion
- ia
- ism
prefixes describing direction, quantity, size, and amount
ab- away from, negative absent dextr/o right side ex- out of, outside, away from Marco- large, abnormal mega-, megal/o large, great pre- before ad- toward, to, in the direction of sinistr/o left side in- in, into, not, without micr/o, micro- small olig/o scanty, few post- after, behind
Infection and inflammation
Although the suffix “ -itis” means inflammation
meningitis (mening means the meninges and -itis means inflammation)
tendinitis (tendin means tendon and -itis means inflammation)
An infection is the invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism
Examples of “do not use” Abbreviations
MS - can mean either morphine sulfate or magnesium sulfate
QD & QOD - mean daily and every other day, respectively; sometimes mistaken for each other
U - means unit, sometimes mistaken for 0 or 4.
Adip/o
Fat
Anter/o
Front
gland
Aden/o
-ologist
specialist
ology
study of
cyt/o
cell
cephal/o
head
caud/o
lower part of the body
exo-
out of
endo-
within
poster/o
back
-path/o
disease, suffering emotion
hist/o
tissue
above the stomach
epigastric region
belly button area
umbilical region
below the ribs
hypochondriac
below the stomach
hypogastric region
hip bone area
Umbilical region
