Medicine Word Studies

Question 1

___ => Prognosis

Greek.

Answer 1

From the word progignoskein,

– meaning “to know beforehand”.

Question 2

____ => Diagnosis

Greek.

Answer 2

From the word diagignoskein,

– meaning “to distinguish” or “to discern”,

Question 3

____ => Carcinoma

Greek.

Answer 3

From the words karkinos,
– meaning “crab”,
and the suffix -oma,
– meaning “tumor”.

Question 4

____ => Pharmacy, pharmacist, pharmacology

Greek.

Answer 4

From the word pharmakon,
– meaning “drug”,
and the combining form logy,
– meaning “study of”.

Question 5

____ => Surgery

Greek.

Answer 5

From the words cheir,
-- meaning "hand",
and ergein,
-- meaning "to work". 
Via the Middle French cirugie or surgerie.

Question 6

____ => Ethics

Greek.

Answer 6

From the word ethos,

– meaning “nature” or “disposition”.

Question 7

____ => Anatomy

Greek.

Answer 7

From the word anatome,
formed with the words ana and temnein,
– meaning “up” and “to cut” respectively.

Question 8

____ => Skeleton

Greek.

Answer 8

From the word skeletos,

– meaning “dried up”.

Question 9

____ => Physiology

Greek.

Answer 9

From the word phusis,
– meaning nature,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning “study of”.

Question 10

____ => Neurology

Greek.

Answer 10

From the word neuron,
– meaning “nerve”,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning study of.

Question 11

____ => Neuralgia

Greek.

Answer 11

From the word neuron,
– meaning “nerve”,
and the word algia,
– meaning “pain”.

Question 12

____ => Gynecology

Greek.

Answer 12

From the word gynaikos, the extended form of gyne,
– meaning “woman”,
and the combining form -logy,
– meaning “study of”.

Question 13

____ => Pediatrics or pediatrician

Greek.

Answer 13

From the word paidos, the extended form of pais,
– meaning “child”,
and the word iatros,
– meaning “physician”. Plus the noun-suffix -ician.

Question 14

____ => Placenta

Greek.

Answer 14

From plakountos, an extended form of plakous,

– meaning “a flat cake”.

Question 15

____ => Medicine

Latin.

Answer 15

From the word medicina,
– meaning “the physician’s art”,
derived from medicus,
– meaning “physician”.

Question 16

____ => Obstetrics

Latin.

Answer 16

From the word obstetrices, extended form of obstetrix
– meaning “midwives”, extended from “midwife”.
It’s derived from ob => “before” and stare => “to stand”.

Question 17

____ => Infection

Latin.

Answer 17

From the word inficere,

– meaning “to taint”.

Question 18

____ => Virus

Latin.

Answer 18

From the word virus,

– meaning “a slimy liquid” or “poison”.

Question 19

____ => Bacteria

Latin and Greek.

Answer 19

From the word bakterion,
– meaning “little stick”.
The English word “bacteria” is derived from the Latin word bacteria, itself derived from the Greek.

Question 20

____ => Amputate

Latin.

Answer 20

From the words ambi,
– meaning “around”,
and putare,
– meaning “to prune” or “to trim”.

Question 21

____ => Scalpel

Latin.

Answer 21

From the diminutive form scalpellum of the word scalprum,

– meaning a sharp cutting instrument, “a knife”, “a chisel”.

Question 22

____ => Forceps

Latin.

Answer 22

From the Latin word forceps,

– meaning “an instrument for grasping (or holding)”.

Question 23

____ => Conception

Latin.

Answer 23

From the Latin word conceptio,

– meaning “conception.

Question 24

____ => Contraception

Latin.

Answer 24

From the Latin word contra,
– meaning “against”,
and the Latin word conceptio,
– meaning “conception.

Question 25

____ => Abortion

Latin.

Answer 25

From the noun abortio, cognate to aboriri,

– meaning “to miscarry”.

Question 26

____ => Infanticide

Latin.

Answer 26

From the word infans,
– meaning “infant”,
and caedere,
– meaning “to kill”.

Question 27

____ => Expose

Latin.

Answer 27

From the verb exponere or expositum,

– meaning “to put out” or “to turn out”.

Question 28

____ => Ophthalmologist

Greek.

Answer 28

From the word ophthalmos,

– meaning “eye”.

Question 29

____ => Optometrist

Greek.

Answer 29

From the word optos,
– meaning, literally, “visible”,
and the word metrein,
– meaning “to measure”.

Question 30

____ => Optician

Greek.

Answer 30

From the word optikos,
– meaning “of sight”,
with the noun forming suffix -ician.

Question 31

____ => Oculist

Latin.

Answer 31

From the Latin oculus,

– meaning “eye”.