Medical Vocab 3
Terms
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- endo-
- -within
-
-scope
-scopy -
-to view
-process or procedure of viewing - lapar/o?
-
-abdominal cavity or wall
-laparoscopy - What is a craniotome?
- -instrument used to cut skull bones
- thorac/o?
- -chest
- What is a procedure to make an opening in the windpipe?
- -tracheostomy
- -stomy?
-
-to create an opening
(stoma means mouth in Latin) - -centesis?
-
-specific kind of surgical incision to remove fluid
-thoracocentesis - -tripsy?
- -to crush
- lith/o?
- -stone or calculus
- What is the procedure to noninvasively crushing stones in the body?
- -extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy
- thromb/o?
- -clot
- hemat/o?
- -blood
- -rrhaphy
-
-to suture, to close an opening using surgical stitches
-herniorrhaphy - What is a hernia?
- -a protrusion of a portion of an organ through an abnormal opening in the muscle wall of the surrounding cavity
- -pexy?
-
-to anchor
-to secure in place
-hysteropexy - What is a prolapse?
- -a condition of sinking or falling down
- -plasty?
-
-to repair
-pyloroplasty
-bepharoplasty - pylor/o?
- -pylorus (opening from stomach)
- blephar/o?
- -eyelid
- -ectomy
- -to excise or remove surgically
- append/o, appenic/o?
-
-appendix
-appendectomy - mamm/o, mast/o?
- -breast
- What is mammoplasty?
- -repairing of the breast
- What is a mastectomy?
- -removal of entire breast
- What is securing a kidney in place called?
- -nephropexy
- What is the excision of a kidney called?
- -nephrectomy
- aden/o?
-
-gland
-adenectomy - tonsill/o?
-
-tonsil or tonsils
-tonsillectomy - chir/o?
- -hand
- col/o, colon/o
- -large intestine
- What is a colectomy?
- -surgical removal of the colon or portion or the colon
- What is a colostomy?
- -creation of an artificial opening from the colon to the outside of the body
- What is a plypectomy?
- -removal of polyps found in the colon
- vas/o?
- -vessel AND/OR the ductus deferens (vas deferens)
- angi/o?
- -vessel
- encephal/o?
- -brain
- cerebr/o?
- -brain, often the cerebrum
- -algia
- -pain
- -dynia
- -pain
- my/o?
-
-muscle
-myalgia -
arthralgia?
Ophthalmodynia?
Gastralgia/gastrodynia? -
-pain in the joints
-eye pain
-stomach pain - -ectasia, ectasis?
- -dilation AKA dilatation
- -stasis?
-
-stopping or controlling
-hemostasis (like with a tourniquet) - -penia
- -deficiency or lack of
- -malacia
- -soft or softening of
- -edema?
-
-swelling
-myxedema(waxy swelling of the hands, face, and feet) - -emesis?
-
-vomit
-hematemesis (blood in vomit) - -megaly
- enlargement
- hepat/o?
-
-liver
-hepatomegaly - -oid?
-
-like or resembling
-dermoid - -rrhexis?
- -rupture
- -rrhea
- -discharge
- -rrhagia (-rrhage)?
-
-excessive bleeding or hemorrhage
-Menorrhagia is excessive menstral flow - gastrorrhexis?
- -rupture of the stomach
- acromegaly?
- -enlargement of the extremities due to a condition of thr pituitary gland
-
-graphy
-graph -
process of making a diagnostic image, graph or tracing
-electroencephalography
*equipment used to produce image or tracing - -gram
-
-tracing patterns?
-EEG - son/o (ech/o)?
- -sound
- ultra-?
-
-beyond or excess
-ultrasound (beyond the range of the human ear) - What is a sonogram?
- -image made using sound
- fluor/o?
- -luminous or emitting light
- tom/o?
- to cut
- MRI?
- magnetic resonance imaging
- sx?
- Symptoms
- dx?
- diagnosis
- WNL?
- Within normal limits