Medicine Word Studies Flashcards
___ => Prognosis
Greek.
From the word progignoskein,
– meaning “to know beforehand”.
____ => Diagnosis
Greek.
From the word diagignoskein,
– meaning “to distinguish” or “to discern”,
____ => Carcinoma
Greek.
From the words karkinos,
– meaning “crab”,
and the suffix -oma,
– meaning “tumor”.
____ => Pharmacy, pharmacist, pharmacology
Greek.
From the word pharmakon,
– meaning “drug”,
and the combining form logy,
– meaning “study of”.
____ => Surgery
Greek.
From the words cheir, -- meaning "hand", and ergein, -- meaning "to work". Via the Middle French cirugie or surgerie.
____ => Ethics
Greek.
From the word ethos,
– meaning “nature” or “disposition”.
____ => Anatomy
Greek.
From the word anatome,
formed with the words ana and temnein,
– meaning “up” and “to cut” respectively.
____ => Skeleton
Greek.
From the word skeletos,
– meaning “dried up”.
____ => Physiology
Greek.
From the word phusis,
– meaning nature,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning “study of”.
____ => Neurology
Greek.
From the word neuron,
– meaning “nerve”,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning study of.
____ => Neuralgia
Greek.
From the word neuron,
– meaning “nerve”,
and the word algia,
– meaning “pain”.
____ => Gynecology
Greek.
From the word gynaikos, the extended form of gyne,
– meaning “woman”,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning “study of”.
____ => Pediatrics or pediatrician
Greek.
From the word paidos, the extended form of pais,
– meaning “child”,
and the word iatros,
– meaning “physician”. Plus the noun-suffix -ician.
____ => Placenta
Greek.
From plakountos, an extended form of plakous,
– meaning “a flat cake”.
____ => Medicine
Latin.
From the word medicina,
– meaning “the physician’s art”,
derived from medicus,
– meaning “physician”.
____ => Obstetrics
Latin.
From the word obstetrices, extended form of obstetrix
– meaning “midwives”, extended from “midwife”.
It’s derived from ob => “before” and stare => “to stand”.
____ => Infection
Latin.
From the word inficere,
– meaning “to taint”.
____ => Virus
Latin.
From the word virus,
– meaning “a slimy liquid” or “poison”.
____ => Bacteria
Latin and Greek.
From the word bakterion,
– meaning “little stick”.
The English word “bacteria” is derived from the Latin word bacteria, itself derived from the Greek.
____ => Amputate
Latin.
From the words ambi,
– meaning “around”,
and putare,
– meaning “to prune” or “to trim”.
____ => Scalpel
Latin.
From the diminutive form scalpellum of the word scalprum,
– meaning a sharp cutting instrument, “a knife”, “a chisel”.
____ => Forceps
Latin.
From the Latin word forceps,
– meaning “an instrument for grasping (or holding)”.
____ => Conception
Latin.
From the Latin word conceptio,
– meaning “conception.
____ => Contraception
Latin.
From the Latin word contra,
– meaning “against”,
and the Latin word conceptio,
– meaning “conception.
____ => Abortion
Latin.
From the noun abortio, cognate to aboriri,
– meaning “to miscarry”.
____ => Infanticide
Latin.
From the word infans,
– meaning “infant”,
and caedere,
– meaning “to kill”.
____ => Expose
Latin.
From the verb exponere or expositum,
– meaning “to put out” or “to turn out”.
____ => Ophthalmologist
Greek.
From the word ophthalmos,
– meaning “eye”.
____ => Optometrist
Greek.
From the word optos,
– meaning, literally, “visible”,
and the word metrein,
– meaning “to measure”.
____ => Optician
Greek.
From the word optikos,
– meaning “of sight”,
with the noun forming suffix -ician.
____ => Oculist
Latin.
From the Latin oculus,
– meaning “eye”.
