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Labyrinthectomy is defined as
surgical excision of the labyrinth.
Premature babies are often susceptible to middle ear infections or
otitis media.
The combining form that means hearing is
audi/o.
The combining form that means tympanic membrane (eardrum) is
myring/o.
The patient complained of loss of equilibrium and of vertigo because of vestibular neuritis also called
labyrinthitis.
The patient’s responses to the audiometric testing were plotted on a graphic record of hearing or a(n)
audiogram.
The term audiometry is defined as
measurement of hearing.
The term otalgia is defined as
pain in the ear.
The term that means benign tumor within the internal auditory canal growing from a cochlear nerve is
acoustic neuroma.
The term that means ringing in the ears is
tinnitus.
To use the abbreviation to record the diagnosis of inflammation of the middle ear,a doctor would write
OM.
A malignant tumor of the bone is called
osteosarcoma.
An abnormal condition of bone death (due to lack of blood supply) is
osteonecrosis.
Because of the patient’s open fracture, she had contracted inflammation of the bone and bone marrow or
osteomyelitis.
In the medical term ankyl/osis, the word root means
stiff, bent.
Rotation is a movement described as
turning around its own axis.
The anatomic structure excised in a phalangectomy is the
finger or toe bone.
The combining form stern/o is defined as
breastbone.
The combining form that means joint is
arthr/o.
The combining form that means kneecap is
patell/o.
The suffix -asthenia is defined as a
weakness.
The suffix -physisis defined as a
growth.
The term arthrodesis is defined as
surgical fixation of a joint.
The term rhabdomyolysis is defined as _____ of striated muscle.
dissolution
The term that means (congenital) fissure (split) of the cranium is
cranioschisis.