Medical Terminology

Inflammation of gray matter of the spinal cord.

• poli/0 = gray matter
• myel/0 = spinal cord
• itis = inflammation

ear

ear

eye

eye

pain in the ear

• algia = pain
• ot/0 = ear

medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders that affect the entire nervous system including the brain, spinal column, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

eye

eye

one side of body paralysis left or right

• hemi = half
• plegia= paralysis

paraplegia = paralysis of the lower body

para = beside

no speech

• a = not, no
• phasia = speech

difficult speech

• dys = difficult
• phasia = speech

Tympanic membrane, eardrum

inflammation of the brain

• encephal/0 = brain
• itis = infammation

• de - lack of
• ment/0 = brain
• ia = condition

• abnormal sensation
• Para -= abnormal
• esthesia = sensation

Disease of the retnia

• pathy = disease
• retin/0 = retina

paralysis

spinal cord, spine

• visual function , non surgical
• opt/0 vision, sight
• metrist = specialist in te messure of