Medical Terminology Game 1

In the beginning...

100

-algia

What is the suffix meaning: pain

200

-asthenia

What is the suffix meaning: weakness

300

-cele

What is the suffix meaning: hernia

400

-itis

what is the suffix meaning: inflammation

500

-malacia

What is the suffix meaning: softening

In the end...

100

-ectomy

What is a suffix meaning: surgical removal

200

-megaly

What is a suffix meaning: enlargement

300

-stenosis

What is a suffix meaning: narrowing or contraction

400

-scopy

What is a suffix meaning: visual examination

500

-pathy

What is a suffix meaning: disease condition

Pulling Roots

100

-plegia

What is the suffix meaning: paralysis

200

crani

What is the root word for: skull

300

erythr/o

What is the root word for: red

400

-ptosis

What is the suffix meaning: drooping, sagging

500

-sclerosis

What is the suffix meaning: hardening

Wait. I know this one!

100

-cyte

What is the suffix meaning: cell

200

-emia

What is the suffix meaning: blood condition

300

-oma

What is the suffix meaning: tumour, mass

400

-spasm

What is the suffix meaning: involuntary contraction

500

-stasis

What is the suffix meaning: decrease or stoppage

Say Again?

100

-arche

What is the suffix meaning: beginning

200

-genesis

What is the suffix meaning condition of producing, forming

300

-mania

What is the suffix meaning: obsessive preoccupation

400

-phonia

What is the suffix meaning: voice, sound

500

-phobia

What is the suffix meaning: abnormal dread or fear