Health /

• • algia


  Pain, painful condition
• anter/o-


  Before, front
• ather/o-


  Plaque or fatty substance
• caud/o-


  Lower part of the body, tail
• • centesis-


  Surgical puncture to remove fluid
• dys


  Bad, difficult, or painful
• • ectomy


  Surgical removal, cutting out
• endo-


  In, within, inside
• exo-


  Out of, outside, away
• • graphy


  Process of recording
• • gram


  Picture or record
• hyper-


  Excessive, increased
• hypo-


  Deficient, decreased
• • malacia


  Abnormal softening
• myel/o-


  Spinal cord or bone marrow
• • necrosis


  Tissue death
• ology


  Study of
• • osis


  Abnormal condition, disease
• • otomy


  Cutting, surgical incision
• • ostomy


  The surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface
• patho, pathy


  Disease, suffering, feeling
• plasi, plaso, -plasia


  Development, growth
• • plasty


  Surgical repair
• postero-


  Behind, back
• pyel/o-


  Renal pelvis
• pyr/o-


  Fever or fire
• • rrhage


  Bleeding, abnormal excessive fluid discharge
• • rrhaphy


  Surgical suturing
• • rrhea


  Flow or discharge
• • scopy


  Visual examination
• • sclerosis


  Abnormal hardening
• • stasis, -static


  Control, maintenance of a constant level
• Candid = honest
• Bicuspid = flabs
• Qualitative = value
• Quantitative = measurable
• Rotation = pivot
• Clavicle = collarbone
• Calories = amount with heart
• Autophobia = fear of loneliness