Suffixes
Cele
What is the suffix for hernia?
Fatty Tumor
Lipoma, Adipoma, Steatoma?
Suffix Prefix Root
How to analyze medical terms?
Enlarged internal organs
What is VISCEROMEGALY?
Ureters
What is the meaning for Ureter/o?
Lysis
What is the suffix for destruction or breakdown?
Splenorrhexis
Ruptured Spleen?
New growth
What is neoplasm?
Disease process of the liver.
Lips
What is the meaning for Cheil/o?
Malacia
What is the suffix that means softening?
Arthralgia
Joint Pain?
Combining Form
What is the root plus the combining vowel?
Angi/o Vascul/o Vas/o
What are the roots for Vessel?
Lymphaden/o
What is the root for lymph glands or lymph nodes?
Stenosis
What is the suffix that means narrowing ; stricture?
Hepatopathy
What is a disease process of the liver?
Gastroenteritis
What is inflammation of the stomach and small intestine?
What are the roots for Tongue?
What is the root for gland?
Rrhexis
What is the suffix that means rupture?
Blepharoptosis
What is the name for a drooping eyelid?
This is used between two roots, between a root and a suffix, when the suffix begins with a consonant.
What is a combining vowel?
Another name for the Pituitary Gland
What is the MASTERGLAND?
Eye
What is the meaning of Ophthalm/o?