Beginnings & Endings
This prefix means within.
What is intra-?
This combining form means head.
What is cephal(o)?
The literal translation of this word is "a condition of pores of the bone"
What is osteoporosis?
This is a surgical opening in the windpipe to allow someone to breathe
What is a tracheostomy?
Blepharedema
"blef-uh-ruh-DEE-muh"
This prefix means against
What is anti-?
These two combining forms mean blood.
What are hem(o) and hemat(o)?
These two terms mean "pain in the ear".
What are otodynia and otalgia?
This word means a surgical fixation of the kidney.
What is nephropexy?
cephalometry
"sef-uh-LOM-uh-tree"
This suffix means excessive preoccupation.
This combining form means individual.
What is idi(o)?
This is the term for a soft eye.
What is ophthalmomalacia?
This word means expected outcome of a disease.
What is prognosis?
otoscopy
"oh-TOS-kuh-pee"
This suffix means produced by or in.
What is -genic?
This combining form means tissue.
What is hist(o)?
This term refers to an infection in the blood.
What is septicemia?
This term means to treat someone with heat
What is thermotherapy?
"of-thul-mos-kuh-pee"
This suffix means sagging or drooping?
What is -ptosis?
This combining form means grapelike cluster.
What is staphyl(o)?
This term describes a condition in which the brain is herniated out of the skull.
What is encephalocele?
This term means the suturing of a vessel
What is angiorraphy?
streptococcal pharyngitis
"strep-toh-KOK-uhl fair-in-JY-tis"