Veterinary Medical Terminology Flashcards
Veterinary Medical Terminology is the language of the veterinary profession. This language is used in every day speech, recorded in medical records and used in journal articles and published textbooks for veterinary technicians and veterinarians.
A syllable, group of syllables, or word joined to the beginning of another word to alter its meaning or create a new word.
Prefix
The subject part of the word consisting of a syllable, group of syllables, or word that is the basis (or word base) for the meaning of the medical word.
Root Word
A word or root word that may or may not use the connecting vowel o when it is used as an element in a medical word formation.
Combing Form
A vowel, usually an o, used to connect a word or root word to the appropriate suffix or to another root word.
Combining Vowel
A syllable, a group of syllables, or a word added at the end of a root word to change its meaning, give it grammatical function, or form a new word.
Suffix
Two or more words or root words combined to make a new word.
Compound Word
To puncture, perforate, or tap - permitting withdrawal of substances
-Centesis
To excise or surgically remove
-Ectomy
use, subject to
-Ize
Fixation or suturing ( a stabilizing type of repair)
-Pexy
to shape, the surgical formation of, or plastic surgery (meaning “to improve function, to relieve pain, or for cosmetic reasons.”)
-Plasty
To surgically repair by joining in a seam or by suturing together
-Rrhaphy
To make a new, artificial opening in a hollow organ (to outside of the body), or to make a new opening between two hollow organs
-Stomy
To incise or cut into (making an incision)
-Tomy
To puncture, perforate, or tap – permitting withdrawal of substances (e.g. fluid,, air)
-Centesis
To exercise or surgically remove
-Ectomy
use, subject to
-Ize
fixation or suturing (a stabilizing type of repair)
-Pexy
Pain
-Algia
Vomit
-Emesis
Blood condition
-Emia
Infestation or infection with, a condition characterized by
-esis, -iasis, -asis
Development, origin
-Genesis
a state or condition, a fact of being, result of a process
-ism
inflammation of
-itis
enlarged
-megaly
tumor
-oma
abnormal condition or process of degeneration
-osis
disease
-path, pathy
deficiency or lack of
-penia
