Medical Terminology Quiz

Medical Terminology Definitions

• Androgenesis: Formation of male characteristics (androman meaning male).
• Angiomalacia: Softening of blood vessels (angi meaning blood vessels, malacia meaning softening).
• Angiogenesis: Formation of new blood vessels (angio meaning blood vessels).
• Angioplasty: Surgical repair of a blood vessel (angio meaning blood vessels, plasty meaning surgical repair).
• Angiosclerosis: Hardening of blood vessels (angio meaning blood vessels, sclerosis meaning hardening).
• Adenosclerosis: Hardening of a gland (aden meaning glands, sclerosis meaning hardening).
• Brachialgia: Pain in the arm (brachi meaning arm, algia meaning pain).
• Bronchoscopy: Visual examination of the bronchial tubes (bronchi meaning lungs, scopy meaning visual examination).
• Cardiograph: Instrument for recording heart activity (cardi meaning heart, graph meaning instrument used to record).
• Carditis: Inflammation of the heart (cardi meaning heart, itis meaning inflammation).
• Carpectomy: Surgical removal of a wrist bone (carp meaning wrist, ectomy meaning excision or surgical removal).
• Cephalalgia: Pain in the head (ceph meaning head, algia meaning pain).
• Cholecystectomy: Surgical removal of the gallbladder (cholecyst meaning gallbladder, ectomy meaning excision or surgical removal).
• Chondromalacia: Softening of cartilage (chondr meaning cartilage, malacia meaning softening).
• Colonoscopy: Visual examination of the colon (col meaning colon, scopy meaning visual examination).
• Craniomalacia: Softening of the skull (cran meaning skull, malacia meaning softening).
• Cranioplasty: Surgical repair of the skull (cran meaning skull, plasty meaning surgical repair).
• Cranioschisis: Congenital splitting of the skull (cran meaning skull, schisis meaning split).
• Craniotomy: Surgical incision into the skull (cran meaning skull, otomy meaning incision).
• Dermatophobia: Fear of skin diseases (derm meaning skin, phobia meaning fear).
• Dermopathy: Disease of the skin (derm meaning skin, pathy meaning disease).
• Encephalytic: Relating to brain inflammation (encephal meaning brain, itis meaning inflammation).
• Enterodynia: Pain in the intestines (enter meaning intestines, dynia meaning pain).
• Enteropathy: Disease of the intestines (enter meaning intestines, pathy meaning disease).
• Enterotomy: Surgical incision into the intestines (enter meaning intestines, otomy meaning incision).
• Hepatology: Study of the liver (hepat meaning liver, ology meaning study of).
• Karyoplasm: Substance of the cell nucleus (kary meaning nucleus, plasm meaning growth, substance, or formation).
• Karyogram: Diagram of chromosomes in the nucleus (kary meaning nucleus, gram meaning record).
• Myeloma: Tumor of bone marrow (myel meaning spinal cord, oma meaning tumor).
• Myelopathy: Disease of the spinal cord (myel meaning spinal cord, pathy meaning disease).
• Nephrectomy: Surgical removal of the kidney (neph meaning kidney, ectomy meaning excision or surgical removal).
• Nephrotomy: Surgical incision into a kidney (neph meaning kidney, otomy meaning incision).
• Nephralgia: Pain in the kidneys (neph meaning kidney, algia meaning pain).
• Osteochondroma: Tumor made of bone and cartilage (oste meaning bone, chondr meaning cartilage, oma meaning tumor).
• Oncolytic: Pertaining to tumor destruction (onco meaning tumor, lytic meaning destroy).
• Oncogenic: Producing or causing tumors (onco meaning tumor, genic meaning producing or causing).
• Pectoralgia: Pain in the chest (pect meaning chest, algia meaning pain).
• Phlebitis: Inflammation of a vein (phleb meaning veins, itis meaning inflammation).
• Pneumosepsis: Infection in the lungs (pneum meaning lungs, sepsis meaning infection).
• Spondylosis: Degenerative condition of the vertebrae (spondyl meaning spine/vertebrae, osis meaning abnormal condition).
• Thoracentesis: Surgical puncture of the chest cavity (thorac meaning chest region, centesis meaning surgical puncture).
• Thrombolytic: Relating to clot breakdown (thromb meaning blood clot, lytic meaning destroy).
• Thrombolysis: Dissolution/destruction of blood clots (thromb meaning blood clot, lysis meaning loosening, dissolution, separating).
• Thrombopoiesis: Formation of blood platelets (thromb meaning blood clot, poiesis meaning formation).
• Venography: Imaging of veins (ven meaning veins, graphy meaning recording).
• Visceromegaly: Enlargement of internal organs (viscer meaning internal organs, megaly meaning enlargement).

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