Lesson 2 Flashcards
Esthesi/o
Feeling or sensation
Gynec/o
Female
Ne/o , nat/o
New, birth
Ophthalm/o
Eye
Path/o
Disease
Radi/o
Radiation or radius
Ur/o
Urinary track or urine
-er, -ist
One who
-iatrican
Practitioner
-logist
One who studies, specialist
-centesis
Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluids
-ectomy
Excision (Surgical removal, or cutting out)
-lysis
Process of listening, freezing or destroying, can also mean dissolving or destruction
-pexy
Surgical fixation(Securing in a fixed position)
-plasty
Surgical repair
-rrhaphy
Suture (fusing a wound by stitches)
-scopy
Visual examination with the use of a Lighted instrument
-stomy
Creation of an opening
-tome
An instrument used for cutting
-tomy
Incision(Cutting into tissue)
-tripsy
Surgical, crushing, breaking, or pulverizing
Aden/o
Gland