| A | B |
|---|
| myringotomy | INCISION OF THE EAR DRUM TO ALLOW DRAINAGE OF THE MIDDLE EAR |
| Rhabdomycosarcoma | IS A TUMOR OF A STRIATED MUSCLE |
| LEIOMYOMA | BENIGN TUMOR OF SMOOTH MUSCLE |
| LEIOMYOSARCOMA | MALIGNANT TUMOR OF SMOOTH MUSCLE |
| METATARSALS ARE THE | MIDFOOT, (BEYOND THE ANKLES) |
| HINDFOOT | CALCANEOUS, THE HEEL BONE |
| META- | PREFIX MEANS BEYOND, CHANGE |
| TARSALS | ANKLE BONE |
| FOREFOOT | THE TOES, THE PHALANGES |
| INCONTINENCE | INABILITY TO HOLD URINE IN THE BLADDER |
| ANURIA | NO URINE |
| URGENCY | YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM RIGH NOW |
| ENURESIS | BED WETTING |
| PNEUMOTHORAX | COLLECTION OF AIR IN THE CHEST CAVITY |
| EMPYEMA | PUS IN THE PLEURAL SPACE SURROUNDING THE LUNGS |
| THORACENTESIS | DRAIN THE FLUID |
| THORACOTOMY | MAKE AN INCISIO INTO THE CHEST CAVITY |
| PNEUM/O | AIR, LUNG |
| HYPERTROPHY | OVERDEVELOPMENT CAUSED BY INCREASE IN CELL SIZE |
| CYTOMEGALY | LARGE CELLS |
| DIAPHORESIS | EXCESSIVE PESPIRATION |
| MACROCYTOSIS | PRESENCE OF LARGE RED BLOOD CELLS IN THE BLOOD |
| MENARCHE | BEGINNING MENSES |
| TELARCHE | BEGINNING BREAST DEVELOPMENT |
| SUPRARENAL | ABOVE THE KIDNEY |
| MACRODACTYLIA | ABNORMAL LARGE FINGERS & TOES |
| PALPEBRATING | WINKING (AT SOMEBODY |
| POLYDACTYLIA | MANY FINGERS OR TOES |
| -ARCHE | SUFFIX MEANING: BEGINNING |
| MEN/O | MENSES |
| SUPRA- | SUPERIOR, ABOVE, UPPER |
| MACRO- | PREFIX: LARGE |
| KERATOPLASTY | SURGICAL REPAIR OF THE CORNEA |
| MICROTIA | SMALL EARS |
| MACROTIA | LARGE EARS |
| OTOMYCOSIS | FUNGAL INFECTION OF THE EAR |
| TRICHOMYCOSIS | FUNGAL INFECTION OF HAIR (AXILLA) |
| DIZZINESS | VERTIGO |
| NEARSIGHTED | MYOPIA |
| INCISION OF THE EAR DRUM | MYRINGOTOMY |
| TINNITUS | RINGING, BUZZING IN THE EAR |
| HYPEROPIA | FARSIGHTEDNESS |
| KYPHOSIS | HUMPBACK (posterior curvature) |
| LORDOSIS | SWAYBACK (anterior curvature, FORWARD CURVATURE) |
| SCOLIOSIS | LATERAL CURVATURE (SIDEWAYS) |
| CHIR/O | HAND |
| CHOL/E | BILE/GALL |
| CELI/O | BELLY/ABDOMEN |
| CALCANE/O | HEEL BONE |
| CHONDR/O | CARTILAGE |
| CHRON/O | TIME |
| CHROM/O | COLOR |
| PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL DYSPNEA | SUDDEN OCCURRENCE DURING THE NIGHT OF DIFFICULT BREATHING |
| ATELECTASIS | COLLAPSED LUNGS |
| PERTUSSIS | WHOOPING COUGH |
| EPISTAXIS | NOSEBLEED |
| ANTHRACOSIS | BLACK LUNG DISEASE, COAL DUST |
| HEMOPTYSIS | SPITTING OR GOUGHING UP BLOOD |
| HEMATEMESIS | VOMITING BLOOD |
| ASCULTATION | LISTENING FOR SOUNDS IN THE BODY USING A STETHOSCOPE |
| PALPATION | TO FEEL TO TOUCH EXAMINING THE BODY |
| SPUTUM | MATERIAL EXPELLED FROM THE CHEST (PHLEGM) |
| PURULENT | CONTAIN PUS |
| HEMOTHORAX | BLOOD IN THE CHEST |
| ANOSMIA | NO SENSE OF SMELL |
| TACHYPNEA | HYPERVENTILATION |
| HYPERPNEA | INCREASED IN DEPTH OF BREATHING FOLLOWING EXERCISE |
| CACHEXIA | WASTING AWAY, TERMINAL ILL |
| ANOREXIA | NO APETITE |
| EDENTULOUS | NO TEETH |
| PARESTHESIA | ABN. NERVOUS SENSATION LIKE TINGLING, NUMBNESS OR PRICKLING SENSATION |
| ASCITES | ABN. ACCUMULATION OF FLUID IN THE ABDOMEN |
| FLATUS | GAS EXPELLED THROUGH THE ANUS |
| MELENA | BLACK, TARRY STOOL |
| VOLVULUS | TWISTING OF THE BOWEL |
| INTUSSUSCEPTION | TELESCOPING OF THE INTESTINE |
| HEMORRHOIDS | SWOLLEN, TWISTED VARICOSE VEINS IN THE ANUS |
| VILLI | MICROSCOPIC PROJECTIONS IN THE WALLS OF THE SMALL INTESTINES |
| SPHINCTER | RING OF MUSCLE |
| CHOLELITHIASIS | GALLSTONES |
| MESENTERY | HOLDS ABDOMINAL ORGANS IN PLACE |
| CHOL/E | BILE, GALL |
| HEPATOMEGALY | ENLARGE LIVER |
| CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY | CREATE A NEW OPENING BETWEEN THE COMMON BILE DUCT AND THE JEJUNUM |
| HEMATOCHEZIA | PASSAGE OF BRIGHT RED BLOOD FROM THE RECTUM |
| HEMATURIA | BLOOD IN THE URINE |
| POSTPRANDIAL | AFTER MEALS |
| AMYLASE | AN ENZYME THAT DIGEST (BREAK DOWN) STARCHES |
| DYSPHASIA | IMPAIRMENT OF SPEECH |
| DYSPHAGIA | DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING |
| ACHALASIA | NO RELAXATION OF THE (LES) LOW ESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER |
| A- PREFFIX | NO, NOT, WITHOUT |
| -CHALASIA SUFFIX | RELAXATION |
| DEGLUTITION | SWALLOWING |
| EMULSIFICATION | BREAK DOWN FAT GLOBULES |
| CHOLANGIECTASIS | DILATION OF THE BILE DUCTS |
| CHOLANGI/O | BILE VESSEL |
| -ECTASIS (SUFFIX) | STRETCHING, DILATION |
| CHEILOSCHISIS | CLEFT LIP |
| -STASIS | STOP, CONTROL, PLACE |
| -SCLEROSIS | HARDENING |
| -PTOSIS | PROLAPSE, SAGGING |
| -PATHY | DISEASE PROCESS |
| -PLASIA | GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT |
| -LYSIS | SEPARATION, BREAKDOWN |
| -GRAPH | INSTRUMENT TO RECORD |
| -GRAM | RECORD |
| PRODROME | SYMPTOM INDICATING ONSET OF AN ILLNESS |
| SYNDROME | SYMPTOMS WHICH OCCUR TOGETHER |
| EU- | GOOD, NORMAL (EUFORIC) |
| FRUC/O | BRANCHIN (BIFURCATION) |
| OLECRAN/OATCHING | ELBOW |
| ONSET | BEFORE |
| -DROME | TO RUN |
| SYN- (PREFIX) | TOGETHER, WITH |
| -ASE (LIPASE) | ENZYME, (BREAKDOWN FAT) |
| ALB/O | WHITE |
| BALAN/O | GLANS PENIS |
| COLP/O | VAGINA |
| HYDRO/ | WATER |
| ESTHESI/O | NERVOUS SENSATION |
| HIDR/O | SWEAT |
| AXILL/O | ARMPIT |
| BUCC/O | CHEEK |
| ANGI/O | VESSEL |
| AMBLY/O | DILL, DUM |
| CHEIL/O | LIP |
| CHIR/O | HAND |
| CRYPT/O | HIDDEN |
| -CUSIS | HEARING |
| CRIN/O | TO SECRETE |
| -COCCUS | BERRY-SHAPED |
| HOME/O | SAMENESS |
| LINGU/O | TONGUE (a.r.) |
| -PRANDIAL | MEAL |
| RHABDOMY/O | STRAITED MUSCLE |
