valvuloplasty. (Valv/o) surgical repair of the heart valve.
Healing is the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased, damaged or unvitalized organism. The profession of nursing has been traditionally concerned with matters of healing, whereas historically the profession of medicine has been concerned with curing.
For example, in gastrectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. Thus, gastrectomy refers to the surgical removal of the stomach (or sections thereof). "Otomy" means cutting into a part of the body; a gastrotomy would be cutting into, but not necessarily removing, the stomach.
Malacia is abnormal softening of a biological tissue, most often cartilage. Usually the combining form -malacia suffixed to another combining form that denotes the affected tissue assigns a more specific name to each such disorder, as follows: Osteomalacia (rickets), a bone disorder from vitamin D deficiency.
Surgical reconstruction of the wall of
Mycosis means any disease caused Athlete's Foot (Tinea Pedis) by a fungus (osis = abnormal condition myc= fungus)
Often referred to as your 'fight-or-flight' system, your sympathetic nervous system prepares your body for emergencies. It shunts your blood to your muscles and increases your blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate, enabling you to cope with stressful situations.
abnormal softening of nerve tissue is known as. neuromalacia.
endoscopy. procedure of looking inside. esophagoscopy. procedure for looking inside the esophagus.
Rrhaphy- surgical suturing to close a wound and includes the use of staples, sutures, or surgical glue.
Appendicitis occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed and filled with pus. Appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen.
Adenitis (ad-eh-NIGH-tis) is the inflammation of a gland (aden means gland, and -itis means inflammation).
There are times that something can be repaired instead of needing to be removed. The suffix for this is '-plasty', meaning surgical repair.
The surgical removal of something
Arthro-: A prefix meaning joint, as in arthropathy and arthroscopic. Before a vowel, it becomes arthr-, as in arthralgia and arthritis. From the Greek word arthron for joint. Ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to join or to fit together.
(Surgery) indicating plastic surgery involving a bodily part, tissue, or a specified process: rhinoplasty; neoplasty.
Megal- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “large, great, grand, abnormally large.” It is used in a few scientific and medical terms. Megal- ultimately comes from the Greek mégas, meaning “great, large.”
The term Plastic Surgery comes from the Greek word plastike (teckhne) or the art of modeling or sculpting. The profession dates back to approximately 800 BC in India where forehead flaps were utilized to reconstruct amputated noses.
Mrs. Connie Bishop, a 55-year-old woman who presents with a swelling in her lower abdomen and shortness of breath. She has no gynecologic or gastroenterologic symptoms. Her pre- vious medical history shows recurrent dermatitis of her hands since a teen- ager and an arthroscopy for a knee injury at age 40.
condition. -osis. condition, abnormal condition. -al; or -eal. pertaining to.
You can take classes or get a tutor, in addition to practicing the most common Latin and Greek root words on your own. The easiest way to start is to create a spreadsheet with these words, and practice memorizing about five terms per day so you don't get overwhelmed.
Blood is held back from an area: Ischemia.
Common Surgical Suffixes Flashcards Preview
- -centesis. Surgical puncture.
- -clasis. To break. Surgical fracture.
- -desis. Binding; fixation (of a bone or joint)
- -ectomy. excision, removal.
- -lysis. Separation; destruction. loosening.
- -pexy. Fixation (of an organ)
- -plasty. Surgical repair.
- -rrhaphy. Suture.
1 : cause, origin specifically : the cause of a disease or abnormal condition. 2 : a branch of knowledge concerned with causes specifically : a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of diseases.
1. To squeeze injuriously between two hard bodies. 2. A bruise or contusion from pressure between two solid bodies.
algia. a suffix meaning pain, painful condition.
An ostomy is surgery to create an opening (stoma) from an area inside the body to the outside. It treats certain diseases of the digestive or urinary systems. It can be permanent, when an organ must be removed.
