Review for Final Flashcards
Unit One Flashcards
the extremities (arms and legs) acr/o Click for Definition
cancer (epithelial) carcin/o Click for Definition
heart cardi/o Click for Definition
cell cyt/o Click for Definition
skin dermat/o or derm/a Click for Definition
stomach gastr/o Click for Definition
large megal/o or -megaly Click for Definition
small micr/o or micro- Click for Definition
disease path/o or -pathy Click for Definition
ability -able Click for Definition
surgical removal – excision -ectomy Click for Definition
condition in the blood -emia Click for Definition
inflammation -itis Click for Definition
enlarged -megaly Click for Definition
instrument that measures or counts -meter Click for Definition
small -micro Click for Definition
large -macro Click for Definition
study of -ology Click for Definition
specialist in the study of -ologist Click for Definition
instrument for looking -scope Click for Definition
process of using a scope -scopy, -oscopy Click for Definition
condition -osis Click for Definition
making a new surgical opening -ostomy Click for Definition
abnormally low amount -penia Click for Definition
water hydro- Click for Definition
Unit Two Flashcards
immature or embryonic cell blast/o or -blast Click for Definition
electricity electr/o Click for Definition
origin or cause eti/o Click for Definition
tissue hist/o Click for Definition
enlarged, big megal/o Click for Definition
x-ray radi/o Click for Definition
sound waves son/o Click for Definition
slices tom/o Click for Definition
pain -algia Click for Definition
cell -cyte Click for Definition
image or picture -gram Click for Definition
instrument -graph Click for Definition
instrument used to cut slices -tome Click for Definition
incision (cut into) -tomy Click for Definition
Unit Three Flashcards
gland aden/o Click for Definition
reflected sound ech/o Click for Definition
fatty, porridge-like ather/o Click for Definition
life bi/o Click for Definition
head cehpal/o Click for Definition
skull crain/o Click for Definition
brain encehpal/o Click for Definition
fat lip/o Click for Definition
soft / soft condition malac/o or -malacia Click for Definition
spinal cord or bone marrow myel/o Click for Definition
tumor onc/o Click for Definition
cancer of connective tissue sarc/o Click for Definition
herniation -cele Click for Definition
pain -dynia Click for Definition
resembling -oid Click for Definition
tumor -oma Click for Definition
surgical repair -plasty Click for Definition
development -trophy Click for Definition
against anti- Click for Definition
above, abnormally high hyper- Click for Definition
below, abnormally low hypo- Click for Definition
bad mal- Click for Definition
beyond meta- Click for Definition
Unit Four Flashcards
joints arthr/o Click for Definition
cartilage chondr/o Click for Definition
ribs cost/o Click for Definition
urinary bladder fluid-filled sac cyst/o Click for Definition
teeth, tooth dont/o or dent/o Click for Definition
movement duct/o Click for Definition
tissue around the teeth odont/o Click for Definition
straight orth/o Click for Definition
bone oste/o Click for Definition
abnormal fear -phobia Click for Definition
away from ab- Click for Definition
toward ad- Click for Definition
development plasia- Click for Definition
surgical puncture -centesis Click for Definition
difficult or painful dys- Click for Definition
between inter- Click for Definition
around, near peri- Click for Definition
above supra- Click for Definition
Unit Five Flashcards
hearing audi/o Click for Definition
rod-shaped bacteria bacill/o Click for Definition
gall or bile chole/o Click for Definition
cocci (round-shaped bacteria) cocc/o Click for Definition
fingers and toes (digits) dactyl/o Click for Definition
thirst dips/o Click for Definition
stone lith/o Click for Definition
ear ot/o Click for Definition
digestion peps/o Click for Definition
eating phag/o Click for Definition
talking phas/o Click for Definition
breathe pne/o Click for Definition
nose rhin/o Click for Definition
bunches like grapes staphylo- Click for Definition
twisted chains strept/o or strepto- Click for Definition
heat therm/o Click for Definition
lack of a- Click for Definition
slow brady- Click for Definition
double diplo- Click for Definition
too many poly- Click for Definition
involuntary movement -spasm Click for Definition
joined, fused syn- Click for Definition
fast tachy- Click for Definition
Unit Six Flashcards
glans penis, glans clitoridis balan/o Click for Definition
vagina colp/o Click for Definition
hidden crypt/o Click for Definition
blood hemat/o or hem/o Click for Definition
uterus hyster/o Click for Definition
tissues of the uterus metr/o Click for Definition
kidney or nephrons nephr/o Click for Definition
nerve neur/o Click for Definition
ovaries oophor/o Click for Definition
testicles orchid/o Click for Definition
renal pelvis pyel/o Click for Definition
kidney ren/o Click for Definition
fallopian tubes salping/o Click for Definition
urine ur/o Click for Definition
herniation -cele Click for Definition
kill -cide Click for Definition
destruction -lysis Click for Definition
discharge -rrhea Click for Definition
hemorrhaging -rrhagia Click for Definition
surgical crushing -tripsy Click for Definition
green chlor/o Click for Definition
blue cyan/o Click for Definition
red erythr/o Click for Definition
white leuk/o Click for Definition
black or dark melan/o Click for Definition
yellow xanth/o Click for Definition
Removal of uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries Also known as total hysterectomy or spay hysterosalpingo-oophorectomy Click for Definition