Medical Term Roots

-itis

• flow, discharge 
• enlargement
• bursting forth
• inflammation

abnormal condition

• -dynia
• -osis
• -rrhea
• -pathy

-algia

• pain
• rupture
• flow, discharge 
• to suture

hyper-

• a path

• enlargement

• excessive, increased

• pain

surgical incision, process of cutting into

• -plasty
• -ectomy
• -otomy
• -ostomy

study of

• -logy

• -metry

• -rraphy

• -itis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

-ic

• full of

• pertaining to

• to cut into

• resembling, like

the surgical creation of an artificial opening to the body surface

• -ology

• -oma

• -ostomy

• -scopy

-rrhaphy

• surgical suturing

• study of something

• visual examination

• process of death

pertaining to

• -ase
• -al
• -cyte
• -gen