Med Term Quiz 3

• Pneum/o, pneumat/o, pneumonia/o

  Lung, air
• Atel/o

  Imperfect, incomplete
• -stenosis


  Constriction, narrowing
• -tome


  Instrument used to cut
• -thorax

  Chest, chest cavity
• -tomy


  Cut into, incision
• -stomy


  Creation of an artificial opening
• -spasm


  Sudden involuntary muscle contraction, spasmodic contraction
• -scope


  Instrument used for visual exam
• -rrhagia


  Rapid flow of blood, excessive bleeding
• -pnea


  Breathing
• —plasty


  Surgical repair
• -pexy


  Surgical fixation, suspension
• -oid

  Resembling
• -meter


  Instrument used to measure
• -logist

  Specialist or physician who studies and treats
• -metry

  Measurement
• -logy

  Study of
• -ia


  Condition, diseased state, abnormal state
• -itis

  Inflammation
• -graphy

  Process of recording, radio graphic imaging
• -gram


  The record, radiographic image
• -graph

  Instrument used to record
• -genic


  Producing, originating, causing
• -ectasis

  Stretching out, dilation, expansion
• -emia

  In the blood
• -ectomy

  Excision, cut out
• -Centesis


  Surgical puncture to aspirate fluid
• -Ar, -ary, eal, ic

  Pertaining to
• -cele

  Hernia, protrusion
• -algia


  Pain
• Trache/o

  Trachea
• Thorac/o

  Thorax, chest cavity
• Spir/o

  Breathe, breathing
• Somn/o


  Sleep
• Sinus/o

  Sinus
• Sept/o

  Septum
• Rhin/o


  Nose
• Respir/o


  Breath, breathing
• Radi/o

  X-rays, ionizing radiation