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Medical Terminology Male Reproductive Chapter
Question | Answer |
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a- | without, not |
adip/o | fat |
andr/o | male |
-al | pertaining to, relating to |
-algia | pain |
an- | without, not |
andr/o | male |
balan/o | glans penis |
carcin/o | cancer |
-cele | hernia; swelling |
-cide | killing |
crypt/o | hidden |
cyst/o | bladder |
dia- | through, across |
-dynia | pain |
dys- | bad; painful; difficult |
-ectasis | dilation, expansion |
-ectomy | excision, removal |
epididym/o | epididymis |
erythr/o | red |
-genesis | forming, producing, swelling |
gonad/o | gonads, sex glands |
gon/o | genitals |
-gram | record, writing |
-graphy | process of recording |
hemat/o | blood |
hem/o | blood |
hydr/o | water |
hyper- | excessive, above normal |
-ia | condition |
-ic | pertaining to, relating to |
-iasis | abnormal condition (produced by something specified) |
-ism | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflammation |
-lith | stone, calculus |
lith/o | stone, calculus |
lip/o | fat |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
meat/o | opening, meatus |
-megaly | enlargement |
muc/o | mucus |
neo- | new |
noct/o | night |
-oid | resembling |
olig/o | scanty |
-oma | tumor |
orchid/o | testis (plural, testes) |
orchi/o | testis (plural, testes) |
orch/o | testis (plural, testes) |
-osis | abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
-ous | pertaining to, relating to |
-pathy | disease |
-pexy | fixation (of an organ) |
-plasia | formation, growth |
-plasm | formation, growth |
-plasty | surgical repair |
poly- | many, much |
post- | after, behind |
pre- | before, in front of |
prostat/o | prostate |
-ptosis | prolapse, downward displacement |
py/o | pus |
retro- | backward, behind |
-rrhage | bursting forth (of) |
-rrhagia | bursting forth (of) |
-rrhaphy | suture |
-rrhea | discharge, flow |
-scope | instrument for examining |
-scopy | visual examination |
-spadias | slit, fissure |
-spasm | involuntary contraction, twitching |
spermat/o | spermatozoa, sperm cells |
sperm/o | spermatozoa, sperm cells |
test/o | testis (plural, testes) |
-tome | instrument to cut |
-tomy | incision |
-uria | urine |
varic/o | dilated vein |
vas/o | vessel; vas deferens; duct |
vesicul/o | seminal vesicle |