Vocabulary
Prefixes
Suffixes
Combining Forms
Medical Procedures
100

A treatment using drugs.

What is Chemotherapy?

100

A prefix meaning: fast.

What is Tachy-?

100

A suffix meaning: inflammation.

What is -itis?

100

A combining form meaning: abdomen.

What is abdomin/o?

100

A suffix meaning: to record.

What is -gram?

200

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?

200

A prefix meaning: above, upon, on.

What is Epi-?

200

A suffix meaning: blood condition.

What is -emia?

200

A combining form meaning: kidney.

What is nephr/o?

200

A suffix meaning: incision.

What is -tomy?

300

An opening of the large intestine to the outside of the body.

What is a Colostomy?

300

A prefix meaning: bad.

What is mal-?

300

A suffix meaning: pain.

What is -algia or -dynia?

300

A combining form meaning: breast.

What is mamm/o?

300

A suffix meaning: excision.

What is -ectomy?

400

A condition of death (of cells).

What is Necrosis?

400

A prefix meaning: behind, backward.

What is Retro-?

400
A suffix meaning: destruction, breakdown.

What is -lysis?

400

A combining form meaning: muscle.

What is my/o?

400

A suffix meaning: treatment.

What is -therapy?

500

A condition of improper formation of cartilage in the embryo that leads to short bones and dwarfism.

What is Achondroplasia?

500

A prefix meaning: change, beyond.

What is Meta-?

500

A suffix meaning: hardening.

What is -sclerosis?

500

A combining form meaning: eye.

What is ophthalm/o?

500

A suffix meaning: puncture to remove fluid.

What is -centesis?

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