Medical Terminology 2

• improper use of words
• arises because the thing named received name before true nature was known

harmful, poisonous, unpleasant

extremely unpleasant

genital mutilation is correct nomenclature

• around 
• prefix

• to cut
• root

inability to retract distal foreskin over the glans penis

• physiologic phimosis - naturally in newborn males
• pathologic phimosis - inability to retract foresin after retractable or after puberty (distal scarring)

• entrapment of retracted foreskin behind coronal sulcus
• disease of uncircumcised or partial circumcised

congenital malformation in which amounts of abdominal content protude into base of umbilical cord

when stomach protrudes into chest cavity

• gastro = stomach
• tomy = resection

• mast = breast
• tomy = removal

abnormally large mammary glands in males

hypertrophy of breast, rare cnnective tissue disorder

removal of lump, mass, tumor

• pathos = disease
• genesis = development
• mechanism by which ethnological factor causes disease

• is the study of causation
• aita = cause 
• logos = concerned with

process that leads to development of cancer

• angio = vessel root prefix
• neo = new suffix root 
• genesis = generate suffix root 

the process of formation of new blood vessels

• low blood sugar
• hypo - below normal
• hyper - above norma 
• glyc - sugar
• emia - low

progressive degeneration of organ or tissue casued by loss of cells

nontumorous enlargement of organ or tissue as a result of increase in size rather than cells

syndrome that results when the anterior pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty

• study of living beings 
• ana = up 
• temnein = to cut

• saggital plane 
• transverse plane 
• coronal plane (corona in front)

• rostral 
• head

tail

palmar, plantar

thumb

pinnky

palm down

palm up

closure to center of the body

farther from center of the body

• epi - above
• hypo
• hyper
• inter - between 
• meta - change
• peri - around

• eal - pertaining to 
• iac/ic - pertaining to 
• ism - process
• ose - pertaining to 
• plasm - formation 
• somes - bodies
• tomy - resection