WORD ROOTS AND COMBING FORMS

• Anaplasty


  • Plastic repair of anus
• Android


  • Resembling a man
• Angiectomy


  • Excision of a part of a blood vessel
• Arteriogram


  • X-ray picture of an artery
• appendage


  • A limb or limblike
• Appendicolysis


  • Surgical adhesion of adhesions
• Anticele


  • Joint swelling
• Encephaloma


  • Tumor of the brain
• Esophagism


  • Spasm of the esophagus
• Gastropathy


  • Disease of the stomach
• Glossodynia


  • Pain in the tongue
• Gynephobia


  • Morbid aversion to women
• Hepatocele


  • Hernia of the liver
• Hysterolith


  • Uterine calculus
• lle/o


  Ileum (S.Intestine)
• Ileus


  • Intestinal onstruction
• irid/o


  Iris (eye)
• Iridomalacia


  • Softening of the iris
• Kerat/o


  Cornea of eye
• Keratorrhexis


  • Rupture of cornea
• Lamina, lamin/o


  Thin part of vertebra
• Laminotomy


  • Transection of vertebral lamina
• Lapar/o


  Abdominal wall
• Laparorrhaphy


  • Suture of abdominal wall
• Nigralingua


  • Black tongue
• Mammogram


  • Xray of breast tissue
• Lob/o


  Lobe, as of lung and brain
• Lobotomy


  • Cutting of nerve fibers connecting brain lobe
• Mastitis


  • Inflammation of the breast
• Myel/o


  Bone marrow; spinal cord
• Myelocyte


  • Immature cell of bone marrow
• Myocardiatis


  • Inflammation of the heart muscle
• Myringoplasty


  • Surgical reconstruction of eardrum
• Nephritis


  • Inflammation of kidney
• Neuralgia


  • Nerve pain
• Oophorocystosis


  • Formation of ovarian cyst
• Opthalmorrhagia


  • Eye hemorrhage
• Orchidorrhaphy


  • Surgical fixation of undescended testes
• Osteoporosis


  • Abnormal thinning of skeleton
• Ototis


  • Ear inflammation