Prefixes
Tachy-
What is fast or rapid?
-algia
What is pain?
Py/o:
What is pus?
Narrowing of the trachea?
What is tracheostenosis?
Instrument used to view the bronchus:
What is a B - R-O-N-C-H-O-S-C-O-P-E?
Lined with mucous membrane and fine hair. It acts as a filter to moisten and warm the entering air.
What is the nose?
-scopic
What is pertaining to visual examination?
Endo-
What is within?
-metry
What is measurement?
muc/o:
What is mucus?
Pain in the chest:
What is thoracalgia?
Diseased state of the lung (infection and inflammation caused by bacteria such as staphylococcus).
What is P-N-E-U-M-O-N-I-A?
Partition separating the left and right nasal cavities.
What is the nasal septum?
-spasm
What is sudden, involuntary muscle contraction (spasmodic contraction)?
What is without or absence of?
-meter
What is instrument used to measure?
Orth/o
What is straight?
Air in the chest:
What is Pneumothorax?
Inflammation of the nose and pharynx?
What is N-A-S-O-P-H-A-R-Y-N-G-I-T-I-S?
Serves as a food and air passageway. Also called the throat.
What is the pharynx?
-centesis
What is surgical puncture to aspirate fluid?
Eu -
What is normal or good?
-emia
What is blood condition?
Phon/o
Need both answers.
What is sound and voice?
Epistaxis
What is a nosebleed?
Inflammation of all sinuses:
What is P-A-N-S-I-N-U-S-I-T-I-S?
Lymphoid tissue located behind the mouth:
What are tonsils?
-stenosis
What is constriction or narrowing?
Pan -
What is all or total?
-rrhagia
What is rapid flow of blood?
Atel/o:
Need both answers.
What is imperfect and incomplete?
Pertussis:
What is whooping cough?
Hernia of the diaphragm:
What is D-I-A-P-H-R-A-G-M-A-T-O-C-E-L-E?
Lymphoid tissue located behind the nasal cavity?
What are adenoids?
-ectasis
What is stretching out, dilatation, and expansion?