Med Terminology Ch 2 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| -er, -ist | one who |
| -iatrician | practitioner |
| crin/o | to secrete |
| esthesi/o | feeling or sensation |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| enter/o | intestine |
| ger/a, ger/o, geront/o | elderly |
| onc/o | tumor |
| ophthtalm/o | eye |
| orth/o | straight |
| ped/o | child/foot |
| ot/o | ear |
| path/o, path/y | disease |
| psych/o | mind |
| radi/o | radiation/radius |
| rheumat/o | rheumatism |
| rhin/o | nose |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
| -ectomy | surgical excision/removal/cutting out |
| -lysis | loosening/ freeing/destroing |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | suture |
| -scopy | visual examination with a lighted instrument |
| -stomy | formation of an opening |
| -tome | instrument used for cutting |
| -tomy | incision |
| -tripsy | surgical crushing |
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | vessel |
| append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
| bi/o | life, living |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| cerebr/o, encephal/o | brain |
| cerebr/o | cerebrum |
| chir/o | hand |
| col/o | colon |
| cutane/o, derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
| faci/o | face |
| hepat/o | liver |
| mamm/o, mast/o | breast |
| muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
| oste/o | bone |
| pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o | lungs *pneum/o = gas or air (sometimes) |
| tonsill/o | tonsil |
| vas/o | vessel |
| -algia, -dynia | pain |
| -cele | hernia (protrusion) |
| -ectasia, -ectasis | dilatation, enlargement, or stretching |
| -edema | swelling |
| -emia | condition of the blood |
| -ia, -iasis | condition |
| -lith | stone or calculus |
| -malacia | softening |
| -mania | preoccupation |
| -megaly | enlargment |
| -oid | resembeling |
| -oma | tumor |
| -osis | an abnormal condition (increase) |
| -penia | defficiancy |
| -phobia | abnormal fear |
| -ptosis | sagging. prolapse |
| -rrhage, -rrhagia | excessive bleeding or hemorrhage |
| -rrhea | flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -ase | enzyme |
| -eum, -ium | membrane |
| -ia -ism | condition or theory |
| -iac | one who suffers |
| -opia | vision |
| -ous | pertaining to or characterized be |
| -y | state or condition |
| adip/o, lip/o | fat |
| amyl/o | starch |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| -ose | sugar |
| hemat/o | blood |
| lact/o | milk |
| lith/o | stone |
| muc/o | mucus |
| prote/o, protein/o | protein |
| pyr/o | fire |
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