Vocabulary
A treatment using drugs.
What is Chemotherapy?
A prefix meaning: fast.
What is Tachy-?
A suffix meaning: inflammation.
What is -itis?
A combining form meaning: abdomen.
What is abdomin/o?
A suffix meaning: to record.
What is -gram?
An enlargement of the extremities; an endocrine disorder that causes excess growth hormone to be produced by the pituitary gland after puberty.
What is Acromegaly?
A prefix meaning: above, upon, on.
What is Epi-?
A suffix meaning: blood condition.
What is -emia?
A combining form meaning: kidney.
What is nephr/o?
A suffix meaning: incision.
What is -tomy?
An opening of the large intestine to the outside of the body.
What is a Colostomy?
A prefix meaning: bad.
What is mal-?
A suffix meaning: pain.
What is -algia or -dynia?
A combining form meaning: breast.
What is mamm/o?
A suffix meaning: excision.
What is -ectomy?
A condition of death (of cells).
What is Necrosis?
A prefix meaning: behind, backward.
What is Retro-?
What is -lysis?
A combining form meaning: muscle.
What is my/o?
A suffix meaning: treatment.
What is -therapy?
A condition of improper formation of cartilage in the embryo that leads to short bones and dwarfism.
What is Achondroplasia?
A prefix meaning: change, beyond.
What is Meta-?
A suffix meaning: hardening.
What is -sclerosis?
A combining form meaning: eye.
What is ophthalm/o?
A suffix meaning: puncture to remove fluid.
What is -centesis?