Body Parts
This is the root for heart.
What is cardi/o?
This is the prefix for 'bad or difficult'.
What is dys-?
This is the word for 'surgical removal of the spleen'.
What is a splenectomy?
Tachycardia could be defined as what.
What is a fast heart rate?
This is the study of movement.
What is kinesiology?
This is the root that means gland.
What is aden/o?
The prefix for 'movement' or 'order'.
What is tax/o?
This is the medical term for a nose job.
What is a rhinoplasty?
The medical term for inflammation of the bursa.
What is bursitis?
The name for a physician who specialized in cancer.
What is an oncologist?
Lymphangi/o is referring to what body part.
What is a lymph vessel?
The suffix for 'flow'.
What is -rrhea?
To suture a blood vessel.
What is angiorrhaphy?
The irregular hardening of the arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
The study of tissue.
What is histology?
"Chondr" is the root for this body part.
What is cartilage?
The root for 'head'.
What is cephal/o?
Medical term for drilling an opening into the skull.
What is a craniostomy?
This is the disorder where the cervical spine is curved like a hump.
What is kyphosis?
What is hemolysis?
The root "spondyl" refers to this body part.
What is the vertebrae?
This suffix means 'rupture'.
What is -rrhexis?
OR
What is -lysis?
Fusing or fixation of a joint.
What is arthrodesis?
This is a condition where you have difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
This is another way to say 'away from the midline'.
What is 'lateral'?