suffix

Question 1

-cele

Answer 1

hernia, ie: rectocele, cystocele

Question 2

-algia

Answer 2

pain, ie: neuralgia, myalgia, arthralgia, otalgia

Question 3

-centesis

Answer 3

puncture to remove fluid
ie: abdominocentesis

Question 4

-coccus / -cocci

Answer 4

berry-shaped. bacterium; streptococcus, staphylococci;

Question 5

bacteria in clusters is considered..

Answer 5

“staph”

Question 6

-cyte

Answer 6

cell; erythrocyte, leukocyte, thrombocyte

Question 7

-dynia

Answer 7

pain; pleurodynia (pain in the chest wall muscles that is aggravated by breathing

Question 8

-ectomy

Answer 8

excision, removal, resection; laryngectomy, mastectomy

Question 9

-emia

Answer 9

blood condition; anemia, ischemia (blood flow/O2 is restricted to a certain body part)

Question 10

-genesis

Answer 10

condition of producing, forming; carcinogenesis, pathogenesis, angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels)

Question 11

-gram

Answer 11

record; electroencephalogram, mammogram

Question 12

-graph

Answer 12

instrument for recording; electroencephalograph

Question 13

-graphy

Answer 13

process of recording; electroencephalography (EEG to diagnose epilepsy, sleep disorders, brain tumors)

Question 14

-itis

Answer 14

inflammation; bronchitis, myelitis (myel/o means spinal cord in this term), tonsillitis, thrombophlebitis (blood clot forms and creates a block in the vein, usually the legs)

Question 15

-logy

Answer 15

study of; ophthalmology, morphology

Question 16

-lysis

Answer 16

breakdown, separation, destruction; hemolysis (normal breakdown of RBC)

Question 17

excessive breakdown of RBC can lead to..

Answer 17

hemolytic anemia

Question 18

-malacia

Answer 18

softening; osteomalacia (soft bone disease - vit D/calcium/phosphate deficiency), chondromalacia (damage to the cartilage around a bone)

Question 19

-megaly

Answer 19

enlargement; acromegaly (rare condition where the body produces too much growth hormone (hands & feet look larger), splenomegaly

Question 20

-oma

Answer 20

tumor, mass, collection of fluid; myoma, myosarcoma, multiple myeloma (myel/o means bone marrow here), hematoma

Question 21

myosarcoma

Answer 21

malignant muscle tumor

Question 22

myomas

Answer 22

small, non-cancerous tumors that develop in or around the uterus

Question 23

multiple myeloma

Answer 23

cancer of the blood (aka Kahler’s Disease) that develops in plasma cells in the bone marrow

Question 24

-opsy

Answer 24

to view; biopsy, necropsy/autopsy

Question 25

-osis

Answer 25

condition, usually abnormal; necrosis, hydronephrosis (when the kidneys swell because they can’t eliminate the urine), leukocytosis (elevated WBC)

Question 26

-pathy

Answer 26

disease condition; cardiomyopathy (primary disease of the heart muscle in the absence of a known underlying etiology) aka heart muscle disease

Question 27

-penia

Answer 27

deficiency; erythropenia (abnormal decrease in RBC), neutropenia (lack of infection-fighting WBC), thrombocytopenia (decrease in platelets)

Question 28

-phobia

Answer 28

far; acrophobia (fear of heights)

Question 29

-plasia

Answer 29

development, formation, growth; achondroplasia (inherited disorder or mutation in a gene where bones of arms and legs do not grow normal size b/c of a defect in cartilage and bone formation (dwarfism)

Question 30

-plasty

Answer 30

surgical repair; angioplasty (an interventional cardiologists opens a narrowed artery using an inflated balloon after insertion into the vessel, stents are put in place to keep the artery open)