Dermatology
This type of cell produces melanin.
What is a melanocyte?
This word means vomiting blood.
What is hematemesis?
The medical term for voice box.
What is larynx?
This disease does not respond to treatment.
What is refractory?
Combining form for nerve.
What is neur/o-?
What is excision?
What is gastrectomy?
Localized collection of pus in the lung.
What is empyema?
Cerebral Palsy is in this disease category.
Definition of suffix -ous.
What is 'pertaining to'?
This growth (tumor) is made up of fat cells.
What is a lipoma?
Accumulation of fluid in the abdomen.
What is ascites?
The combining form: capn/o-
What is carbon dioxide?
This prefix is the opposite of hypo-.
What is hyper-?
The word parts from the medical term mammogram.
What are mamm/o (CF) and -gram (suffix)?
This is the meaning of the suffix -dactyly, as in polydactyly.
What are fingers or toes?
Severe, unrelieved constipation.
What is obstipation?
Inferior end of the trachea splits into left and right.
What is bronchi?
What is -osis?
Also known as the front side of the body.
What is anterior?
These are two combining forms for nail.
Structure affected by cholelithiasis.
What is the gallbladder?
Also known as polysomnography.
What is Sleep Study?
A suffix: process of using an instrument to examine.
What is -scopy?
Combining form for head or brain.
What is cephal/o-?