Role of Pathology in Medicine

Question 1

What is pathology?

Answer 1

The scientific study of disease.

PATHOS = suffering, LOGOS = study

Question 2

What does the prefix ANA- mean?

Answer 2

Up, again, backward.

Question 3

What does the prefix DYS- mean?

Answer 3

Bad, painful, abnormal.

Question 4

What does the prefix HYPER- mean?

Answer 4

Above, excessive.

Question 5

What does the prefix HYPO- mean?

Answer 5

Below, deficient.

Question 6

What does the prefix META- mean?

Answer 6

Change, beyond.

Question 7

What does the suffix -ITIS mean?

Answer 7

Inflammation.

Question 8

What does the suffix -OMA mean?

Answer 8

Tumour, fluid collection.

Question 9

What does the suffix -OSIS mean?

Answer 9

Condition, abnormal.

Question 10

What does the suffix -OID mean?

Answer 10

Resembling, derived from.

Question 11

What does the suffix -PENIA mean?

Answer 11

Deficiency.

Question 12

What does the suffix -CYTOSIS mean?

Answer 12

Cells, slight increase.

Question 13

What does the suffix -ECTASIS mean?

Answer 13

Dilation, widening.

Question 14

What does the suffix -PLASIA mean?

Answer 14

Development, formation.

Question 15

What does the suffix -OPATHY mean?

Answer 15

Disease, disorder.

Question 16

What is a fistula?

Answer 16

An abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow/tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow/tubular organs.