Word Part Breakdown
The word part meaning "excessive" or "increased".
What is "hyper-"?
The suffix that means "inflammation".
What is "-itis"?
Objective evidence of disease that can be evaluated or measured by the patient or others, such as fever.
What is a "sign"?
The term for inflammation of the stomach.
What is "gastritis"?
A disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the person who discovered or described it first.
What is an "eponym"?
The prefix "hypo-" means this.
What is "deficient or decreased"?
The suffix "-ectomy" means this.
What is "surgical removal or cutting out"?
Subjective evidence of a disease, such as pain or a headache, that can be evaluated or measured only by the patient.
What is a "symptom"?
The term for pain in the stomach, also known as a stomachache.
What is "gastralgia"?
The loss of a large amount of blood in a short time.
What is a "hemorrhage"?
The word part that means "bad, difficult, or painful".
What is "dys-"?
The difference between "-otomy" and "-ostomy".
What is "cutting/surgical incision (-otomy) and surgically creating an artificial opening (-ostomy)"?
An examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts.
What is "palpation"?
Inflammation of both the stomach and small intestine.
What is "gastroenteritis"?
A word formed from the initial letter of the major parts of a compound term.
What is an "acronym"?
The suffix "-sclerosis" refers to this condition.
What is "abnormal hardening"?
The suffix for "surgical repair".
What is "-plasty"?
The medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need and the proper place of treatment.
What is "triage"?
Any disease of the stomach.
What is "gastrosis"?
The medical term for a pounding or racing heart.
What is a "palpitation"?
The suffix "-rrhexis" means this.
What is "rupture/to rupture"?
What is "surgical suturing"?
The surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid.
What is "abdominocentesis"?
Discomfort due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus, commonly known as heartburn.
What is "pyrosis"?
Any abnormal condition or disease caused by a fungus.
What is "mycosis"?