Organs
Refers to the stomach
What is....
gastro, gastric?
The surgical removal of the gallbladder
What is a cholecystectomy?
Pneumonia affects this organ(s).
What is the lungs?
Common term for myocardial infarction
heart attack
What is stomato?
Refers to the lungs
What is pneumo, pulmonary?
The medical term for removing the appendix
What is appendectomy?
Refers to a broken bone
What is a fracture?
Common term for a cerebrovascular accident
What is a stroke?
Refers to bones
What is osteo?
Refers to the liver
What is hepat?
This suffix refers to inspection or examination
What is opsy?
(as in biopsy)
Inflammation of the joints
What is arthritis?
Common term for bradycardia
what is slow heart rate/pulse?
Refers to the skin
What is dermo?
Refers to the heart
What is cardi
(cardiac, cardio, cardia)
A nurse is giving a patient medication and fluids within their vein
What is intravenous therapy?
Refers to high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
Common term for hyperglycemia
What is high blood sugar?
2 words that refer to the brain
what is encephalo OR cerebro?
2 words that both refer to the kidneys
what is renal AND nephro?
Suffix that refers to visual examination of some part of the body
What is scopy?
Suffix that can refer to both inflammation or infection
what is itis?
Common term for nocturia
What is involuntary urge to pee several times throughout the night
Prefix that refers to EITHER a cyst or the urinary bladder
What is cysto?