CLA131 Exam 1 Questions and Answers

anti- - ANSWER prefix; against, opposite of brady- - ANSWER prefix; slow endo- - ANSWER prefix; within epi- - ANSWER prefix; upon, over, above, on top neo- - ANSWER prefix; new pre- - ANSWER prefix; to com ...

anti- - ANSWER prefix; against, opposite of brady- - ANSWER prefix; slow endo- - ANSWER prefix; within epi- - ANSWER prefix; upon, over, above, on top neo- - ANSWER prefix; new pre- - ANSWER prefix; to come before append/o, appendic/o - ANSWER wr; appendix bi/o - ANSWER wr; life cardi/o - ANSWER wr; heart cerebr/o - ANSWER wr; brain, cerebrum dermat/o - ANSWER wr; skin electr/o - ANSWER wr; electricity encephal/o - ANSWER wr; brain gastr/o - ANSWER wr; stomach hem/o - ANSWER wr; blood hepat/o - ANSWER wr; liver hyster/o - ANSWER wr; uterus laryng/o - ANSWER wr; voice box, larynx leuk/o - ANSWER wr; white mamm/o - ANSWER wr; breast mast/o - ANSWER wr; breast ment/o - ANSWER wr; mind nat/o - ANSWER wr; birth neur/o - ANSWER wr; nerve path/o - ANSWER wr; disease proct/o - ANSWER wr; rectum or anus psych/o - ANSWER wr; mind rhin/o - ANSWER wr; nose tonsill/o - ANSWER wr; almond, tonsil vas/o - ANSWER wr; vessel -al - ANSWER suffix; pertaining to -ectomy - ANSWER suffix; surgical excision, removal -emia - ANSWER suffix; condition of blood -gram - ANSWER suffix; a record or image -ia - ANSWER suffix; condition of -iatry - ANSWER suffix; treatment, specialty -ic - ANSWER suffix; pertaining to -itis - ANSWER suffix; inflammation -logist - ANSWER suffix; one who studies -logy - ANSWER suffix; study or science of -pathy - ANSWER suffix; disease -philia - ANSWER suffix; loving, affinity for -plasty - ANSWER suffix; surgical repair -scope - ANSWER suffix; instrument used for viewing -tic - ANSWER suffix; pertaining to -meter - ANSWER suffix; measure, measuring instrument -ous - ANSWER suffix; disease -scopy - ANSWER suffix; process of viewing -plegia - ANSWER suffix; paralysis -oma - ANSWER suffix; tumor -emesis - ANSWER suffix; vomiting -phasia - ANSWER suffix; speaking -oxia - ANSWER suffix; condition of oxygen -physis - ANSWER suffix; growth -malacia - ANSWER suffix; softening -drome - ANSWER suffix; run, running -opsy - ANSWER suffix; view of -phagia - ANSWER suffix; eating or swallowing -stasis - ANSWER suffix; standing still -algia - ANSWER suffix; condition of pain -asthenia - ANSWER suffix; weakness -atresia - ANSWER suffix; a closure or the absence of a normal body opening -cele - ANSWER suffix; hernia, swelling, protrusion -dynia - ANSWER suffix; pain -osis - ANSWER suffix; condition of -ism - ANSWER suffix; condition or disease -itis - ANSWER suffix; inflammation -penia - ANSWER suffix; deficiency or abnormal reduction in number -phobia - ANSWER suffix; fear -plasia - ANSWER suffix; formation, growth -rrhagia - ANSWER suffix; abnormal discharge -rrhea - ANSWER suffix; discharge -rrhexis - ANSWER suffix; rupture -sclerosis - ANSWER suffix; condition of hard -spasm - ANSWER suffix; sudden, involuntary muscle contraction -ad - ANSWER suffix; toward -hemia - ANSWER suffix; condition of blood -a/ae - ANSWER suffix; fistula/e -practic - ANSWER suffix; practice -centesis - ANSWER suffix; surgical puncture -clasia/clasis/clast - ANSWER suffix; break apart -desis - ANSWER suffix; surgical fixation or fusion -graph - ANSWER suffix; an instrument for recording -graphy - ANSWER suffix; recording progress -metry - ANSWER suffix; measurement, process of measuring -pexy - ANSWER suffix; surgical fixation, suspension -phylaxis - ANSWER suffix; protection -rrhaphy - ANSWER suffix; suturing -stomy - ANSWER suffix; surgical creation of an opening -tome - ANSWER suffix; a cutting instrument -tomy - ANSWER suffix; incision -tripsy - ANSWER suffix; surgical crushing -ion - ANSWER suffix; process ab- - ANSWER prefix; away from intra- - ANSWER prefix; within hyper- - ANSWER prefix; excessive, abnormally high, above a- - ANSWER prefix; without, absence of con- - ANSWER prefix; with, together, jointly contra- - ANSWER prefix; counter, against meta- - ANSWER prefix; after, change ambi- - ANSWER prefix; both bi- - ANSWER prefix; two di- - ANSWER prefix; double dipl- - ANSWER prefix; double hemi- - ANSWER prefix; half mono- - ANSWER prefix; one multi- - ANSWER prefix; many, more than once, numerous nulli- - ANSWER prefix; none pan- - ANSWER prefix; all poly- - ANSWER prefix; excessive, over, many primi- - ANSWER prefix; first quadri/tetra- - ANSWER prefix; four semi- - ANSWER prefix; half, partial tri- - ANSWER prefix; three uni- - ANSWER prefix; one ad- - ANSWER prefix; toward ana- - ANSWER prefix; up, toward pre/ante- - ANSWER prefix; before, to come before dia- - ANSWER prefix; through -lysis - ANSWER suffix; to loosen through dis- - ANSWER prefix; apart, away ec/ecto- - ANSWER prefix; outside, out ep/epi- - ANSWER prefix; upon, over. above, on top eso- - ANSWER prefix; inward ex/o- - ANSWER prefix; outside, away from extra- - ANSWER prefix; outside infer- - ANSWER prefix; below inter- - ANSWER prefix; between para- - ANSWER prefix; alongside, abnormal peri- - ANSWER prefix; around post- - ANSWER prefix; to follow after sub/hypo- - ANSWER prefix; below super/supra- - ANSWER prefix; above sym/syn- - ANSWER prefix; together, joined an- - ANSWER prefix; without, absence of circum- - ANSWER prefix; around dys- - ANSWER prefix; bad, abnormal, painful, difficult eu- - ANSWER prefix; normal, good heter/o- - ANSWER prefix; different hypo- - ANSWER prefix; deficient, abnormally low, below macro- - ANSWER prefix; large mal- - ANSWER prefix; bad mega/megalo- - ANSWER prefix; large