Section 2

• carcin/o revers to cancer
• a carcin/oma is a cancerous tumor
• a stomach cancer is called gastric carcinoma
• intestinal carcinoma refers to a cancerous tumor of the intestines
• cancer of the spleen is splenic carcinoma
• cancer of the tonsil is tonsillar carcinoma
• cancer of the duodenum is duodenal carcinoma
• oid is a suffix which means like or resembling
• lipoid means fatlike
• a substance that looks like fat, dissolves like fat, but is not fat is a lipoid
• mucoid means resembling mucus
• the root word for mucus is muc/o
• us is a noun suffix
• ous is an adjectival suffix
• the mucous membrane secretes mucus
• the lining of bodily openings is the mucous membrane or the mucosa
• laryng/o refers to the larynx
• laryngitis is inflammation of the larynx
• laryngalgia means laryngeal pain
• laryngostomy means making a new opening into the larynx
• the ending for new opening is ostomy
• laryngotomy is the creation of a temporary opening into the larynx
• otomy refers to excision or temporary opening
• cephal/o refers to the head
• the combining form pair for pain is dyn/ia
• the root word pair for pain is algia
• the adjectival form of dynia is dyn/ic
• the adjectival form of headache is cephalodynic
• Two nouns for headache are cephalalgia and cephalodynia. The adjectival form of headache is cephalodynic
• cephal/ic means pertaining to the head
• encephalitis means inflammation of the brain
• encephal/o refers to the brain
• encephalocele means herniation of the brain tissue
• malac/ia means softening of a tissue
• encephalomalacia means the softening of brain tissue
• malacotomy means incision of soft areas
• oste/o refers to the bones
• osteopathy is a disease of the bones
• osteitis is inflammation of bone tissue
• osteomalacia means softening of bone tissue