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Medical Terminology
Lesson 2
Look-Alike, Sound Alike Terms
• Arteri/o artery
• Ather/o plaque or fatty substance
• Arthr/o joint
• ileum – part of the small intestine (remember that the med term for intestines is “enter” and it has an “e” like ileum.
• ilium is part of the hip bone – you can see the ilium when you lay on your back..it’s the bones that are sticking up.
• Infection – an invasion of the body by a pathogen. It may be local or affect the entire body
• Inflammation – a localized response to injury or destruction of tissues. The usual indications of inflammation are (1) redness, (2) heat, (3) swelling (edema) and (4) pain.
• The suffix –itis means inflammation; however it also is often used to indicate infection.
• Laceration – a torn, ragged wound
• Lesion – a pathological change of the tissue due to disease or injury
• Mucous – an adjective that describes the specialized mucous membranes that line the body cavities and some organs
• Trachea mucous membrane
• Mucus is a noun and is the name of the substance secreted by the mucous membranes. (you can probably figure out a secretion that comes out of the nose….that’s mucus)
• Myc/o – fungus. Mycosis means any disease caused Athlete’s Foot (Tinea
Pedis) by a fungus (osis = abnormal condition myc= fungus)
• Myel/o – bone marrow or spinal cord
• My/o - muscle
• -ologist – specialist. A gerontologist is a specialist in treating the elderly.(geront means old age)
• -ology – the study of. Cardiology is the study of the heart.
• Palpation – examination technique when the examiner uses the hands to feel the size and consistency of certain body parts.
• Palpitation – pounding or racing heart
• Prostate – male gland that surrounds the urethra
• Prostrate – means to be lying flat or be overcome with exhaustion
• Pyel/o – renal pelvis (part of the kidney)
pyelogram
• py/o – pus
• pyoderma (pus-producing » disease of the skin)
• Pyr/o – fever or fire (pyretic means pertaining to fever) (pyrosis – abnormal condition of fire…..also known as heartburn)
• Supination – rotating the forearm so the palm faces upward or forward
• Suppuration – formation or discharge of pus MRSA
• Triage – the medical screening of patients to determine the priority of need
• Trauma – wound or injury. These are the types of injuries that occur in accidents, shootings, natural disasters, or fire.
• Viral – pertaining to a virus (vir means virus or poison, al means pertaining to)
» human immunodeficiency virus
• Virile – possessing masculine traits
A few more word roots…these indicate color• Cyan/o – blue
(cyanosis)
• Erythr/o – red erythrema
• Leuk/o – white leukocyte
• melan/o – blackmelanoma
• Poli/o – gray
Poliomyelitis affects the gray matter of the spinal cord