Word Elements Related to the Male Reproductive System
Pathology
Word Elements Related to the Female Reproductive System
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
100
Female reproductive organ that contains and nourishes the embryo from the time the egg is implanted until the fetus is born.
What is The Uterus
100
The combining form for prostate gland.
What is prostat/o?
100
The most common form of kidney disease. Also called kidney infection or complicated urinary tract infection.
What is Pylenephritis?
100
Combining form for the term meaning neck or the neck of the uterus.
What is cervic/o?
100
The symptoms sometimes do not manifest until the disease has spread to the ovaries or fallopian tubes. Most commonly identified by greenish, yellow cervial discharge in woman
What is Gonorrhea?
200
These are almond shaped glands loacted in the pelvic cavity, one on each side of the uterus.
What are Ovaries?
200
A prefix meaning backward or behind.
What is retro-?
200
The branch of medicine concerned with diseases of the female reproductive organs and the breast.
What is Gynecology?
200
Combining form meaning woman or female?
What is gynec/o?
200
This STD is characterized by red, blisterlike, painful lesions that closely resemble the commmon fever blister or cold sore that appears on the lips and around the mouth.
What is Genital Herpes?
300
There are two of these structures that extend laterally from superior angles of the uterus.
What are The Fallopian Tubes?
300
The combining form for male.
What is andr/o?
300
Associated with aging, the prostate gland enlarges, it decreases the urethral lumen, and complete voiding of urine becomes difficult. It is often reffered to with a three letter acronym.
What is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?
300
Suffix for the word meaning tube (usually fallopian or eustachian).
What is -salpinx?
300
Affects males and females, but symptoms are more common in females. In woman it causes vaginitis, urethirits, and cystitis.
What is Trichomoniasis
400
Microspcopic structures located in the kidneys that are responsible for maintaining homeostasis.
What are Nephrons?
400
The combining form for seminal vesicle.
What is vesicul/o?
400
These are the two most common forms of cancer involving the female reproductive system.
What are breast and cervical cancers?
400
Suffix meaning pregnant woman.
What is -gravida?
400
Cause by infection with a bacteria. The most prevelant STD and one of the most damaging in the United States.
What is Chlamydia?
500
Two pea shaped structures located below the prostate and are connected by a small duct to the urethra. These structures are glands.
What are the bulbourethral (Cowper) glands?
500
The combining form for sperm cells
What is spermat/o?
500
These tumors are experienced by 30 to 40 percent of all woman, they are benign and slowly develop between the ages of 25 and 40. Also called leiomyomas or myomas.
What are fibriods?
500
Combining form for the word meaning tube (usually fallopian or eustachian).
What is salping/o?
500
Less common, but more serious the gonorrhea. If left untreated it may become a chronic, infectious, multisystemic disease.