Suffixes
Refers to tumor.
What is "-omic"?
This means inside something (organ, tissue, cell).
What is "endo-"?
Refers to the heart.
What is "Cardio-"?
This refers to the procedure used to image breast tissue for cancer detection.
What is mammography?
A life threatening inflammatory response to infection.
What is "sepsis"?
Refers to expansion of certain blood cell types.
What is "-osis"?
Refers to more of something.
What is "hyper-"
Refers to blood.
What is "Hemo-, Hema- or hemato-"?
You wake up with a fever. How is your state described in medical terms.
"What is - I am febrile?"
This is a specialist in brain disease.
"Who is a neurologist?"
Refers to inflammation.
What is "-itis"?
What is "peri-"
Refers to the intestinal tract.
What is "entero-"?
Your friend had surgery for an appendicitis. Her appendix was removed in a procedure that is called this.
What is an appendectomy?
This is a tumor (cancer) of epithelial tissues.
Refers to levels in blood.
What is "-emia"?
What is "-megaly"?
Refers to the kidney.
What is "nephro-"?
Clinicians often use three letters, T, N, and M, to stage cancer. T indicates size, N indicates whether cancer cells are found in the lymph nodes. M refers to this.
What is whether cancer has metastasized?
You know a young athlete with an enlarged heart. What was this athlete diagnosed with?
What is "cardiomegaly"?
Refers to pain.
What is "-algia"?
Means the same (as in on the same side).
What is "Ipsi-"?
This word means a lack of cells that form blood clots.
What is "thrombocytopenia"?
This is the procedure associated with surgery to remove a portion of the colon and connect a bag to the opening.
What is a "colostomy"?
Many anatomical structures are named after men, including many female reproductive structures (e.g. Fallopian tubes). A layer of this tissue is one of the few named after a woman (Raissa Nitabuch).
What is the placenta?