Procedures
Suffixes
Combining Forms
Medical Term Definitions
Tissues/Body Part
100

Laryngoscopy 

What is the visual examination of the voice box?

100

-megaly

What is enlargement?

100

angi/o

What is vessel?

100

adenocarcinoma

What are cancerous tumor of glandular cells?

100

inguinal

What is the groin?

200

craniotomy

What is incision of the skull?

200

-pathy

What is disease condition?

200

bronch/o or bronchi/o

What is bronchial tube?
200

Pneumonia

What is the abnormal condition of the lung?

200

Pulmonary

What is the lungs?

300

Oopherectomy

What is excision of an ovary

300

-sclerosis

What is hardening?

300

chem/o

What is a drug; also chemical?

300

mammogram

What is X-ray record of the breast?

300

Myocardial

What is the heart muscle?

400

Arhtrocentesis

What is surgical puncture to remove fluid from a joint?

400

-centesis

What is surgical puncture to remove fluid?

400

inguin/o

What is the groin?

400

Phlebotomy

What is the incision of a vein to withdraw blood
400

Vascular

What are blood vessels?

500

Tracheostomy

What is opening of the windpipe to the outside of the body?

500

-scopy

What is process of visual examination?

500

salping/o

What is Fallopian tube?
500

Thoracentesis

What is the surgical puncture to remove fluid from the chest?  
500

otalgia

What is the ear?