Specialists
Prefixes and Suffixes
Blood
Bones
Cardiology
100
The study of tumors, especially cancer.
What is Oncology?
100
-therapy.
What is treatment?
100
White Blood Cell
What is a leukocyte?
100
Lateral curvature of the spinal column.
What is scoliosis?
100
Rapid heart beat.
What is tachycardia?
200
This doctor cares for people with endocrine gland disorders.
What is an Endocrinologist?
200
Post-
What is after?
200
Platelet
What is a thromobocyte?
200
Longest and heaviest bone of the body.
What is the femur?
200
The membrane sac that encloses the heart.
What is the pericardium?
300
The practice of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
What is Psychiatry?
300
Pseudo-
What is false?
300
Blood test that shows the number of leukocytes/cubic millimeter.
What is white blood cell count?
300
The smaller of the lower leg bones.
What is the fibula?
300
These blood vessels branch from the aorta to carry oxygen rich blood to the heart muscle: capillaries renal arteries coronary arteries carotid arteries
What are coronary arteries?
400
Specialist in gums.
What is a Periodontist?
400
Instrument to record.
What is -graph
400
Rupture of a vein.
What is phleborrhexis?
400
Inflammation of joints caused by excessive uric acid accumulation.
What is gouty arthritis?
400
Medication used to strengthen the heart rate.
What is digitalis?
500
The 3 body systems cared for by an Otolaryngologist
What are ears, nose and throat.
500
Rupture
What is -rrhexis
500
People with this type of blood are universal donors.
What is type O?
500
Overstretching of a muscle.
What is a strain?
500
Weakening of a vessel causing the ballooning out of the wall of a vessel.
What is an aneurysm?
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