Combining Form for Selected Medical Specialties
This physician works on the heart.
Who is a cardiologist?
The suffix that means an instrument used for cutting.
What is -tome?
A combining form for muscle.
What is my/o?
This suffix means condition or theory.
What is -ia or -ism?
Adipose means _______.
What is fatty?
This specialty focuses on the elderly.
What is geriatrics?
This suffix means surgical removal or cutting out.
What is -ectomy?
What is eyelid?
What is one suffix that means pertaining to?
What is -ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic?
Lithology is the study of ______.
What are rocks?
This physician looks at ears and the larynx.
Who is an otolaryngologist?
The suffix that means cutting into tissue.
What is -tomy?
A combining form that means either bone marrow or the spinal cord is.
myel/o
This suffix means sugar.
What is -ose?
This combining form means blood.
What is hemat/o?
This specialty focuses on nerves.
What is neurology?
The suffix that means surgical crushing.
What is -tripsy?
This combining form sometimes means "air" or "gas".
What is pneum/o?
The suffix -y means.
What is state or condition?
Someone that has low blood sugar suffers from what condition?
What is hypoglycemia?
A ____________ specializes in eyes.
Who is an ophthalmologist?
The suffix that means visual examination with a lighted instructment.
What is -scopy?
This CF means liver.
What is hepat/o?
This suffix means vision.
What is -opia?
__________ is an enzyme that breaks down starch.
What is amylase?