Prefixes
Suffixes
Word Roots
Medical Terms
Hodge Podge
100
Means scanty or few
What is olig-?
100
-ptosis
What is to droop, sag, prolapse?
100
Lith/o
What is a stone or calculus?
100
term for excessive urination at night?
What is nocturia?
100
nephrolysis
What is surgical freeing of a kidney from adhesions?
200
Can mean through, between, apart
What is dia or di?
200
-lithiasis
What is presence of stones?
200
Two word roots with combining form meaning kidney
What is nephr/o and ren/o?
200
surgical removal of a kidney stone
What is a nephrolithotomy?
200
a process of artificially filtering of waste products from a patient's blood
What is hemodialysis?
300
Can be a prefix or word root meaning bladder
What is cyst?
300
stretching, dilation
What is -ectasis?
300
Meaning of hydr/o
What is water?
300
surgical suturing of a ureter
What is a ureterorrhaphy?
300
abnormally high levels of protein in the urine
What is hyperproteinuria?
400
Can mean many, several and even frequent
What is poly-?
400
setting free, destruction
What is -lysis?
400
word root for prostate
What is prostat?
400
inflammation of the renal pelvis and kidney
What is pyelonephritis?
400
surgical repair of the wall of the urethra
What is urethroplasty?
500
without, absence, not
What is an-?
500
to crush
What is -tripsy?
500
Ur/o
What is urine or urinary tract?
500
suppuration of the kidney
What is nephropyosis?
500
condition when cysts slowly reduce kidney function that leads to kidney failure
What is polycystic kidney disease?
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