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Understanding Medical Terminology Basics

Okay class hopefully you're getting used to medical terminology and how to read medical terms. Now we continue with chapter three suffixes and same chapter goals. Define new suffixes and review those presented in the previous chapter so now we're building a foundation. So let's start with chapter three now we go into combining forms. What is abdomen that's the abdomen, acro means extremities, accu means sharp, severe or sudden, so see sometimes these combining forms have three different meanings. Adeno or adino is gland, adipo you know adipose fat. Amni amnion, angi like angioplasty right vessel arterio artery like arteriosclerosis, arthroarthritis, joint right inflammation of the joint and axillo or axial as armpit. So understanding these you know you're getting used to it again make sure you make flash cards make sure you're doing repetition. You have to see this at least seven times to even remember it bio life like biology, blephar eyelid so you can actually have eyelid surgery uh depending on what you want but it could be called a blepharoectomy or depending on what they're doing. Okay broncho is bronchitis, bronchitis right so that would be inflammation of the bronchial tubes, carcinoma or carcinoma is cancer, cardi means heart not cardi B. Chem is drug so chemotherapy is chemical drug therapy, chondro is chondrocyte or cartilage chron now remember chondro is cartilage chron like chronological order, chrono is time colo is colon, and cyst is urinary bladder so cystitis would be infection or irritation of the urinary bladder, encephalo as brain so encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. Erythro red, hemo blood, hepato like hepatitis right so that would involve the liver. Hydro hydrate right so those are examples of water. Inguin like inguinal that's your groin. isc to hold back okay lapar is abdomen so la par oscupi laparoscopy depending on where you have your accent that would be something that you would do to get into the abdomen laryngo that's larynx and leuko like leukocytes it's white so white blood cells lympho are lymph memo that's breast masto is also breast so memo and masto so mastectomy and then a mammogram uh morpho is more fall shape or form muco is muco is mucus my his muscle mile is the spinal cord so see my is just muscle but mile is spinal cord necro is death so uh necrotizing fasciitis flesh eating bacteria so necrotizing death right nephro as kidney nephrologist is a kidney specialist neuro is nerve so a neurologist is a nerve specialist neutral has neutrophil nucleo's nucleus ophthalmo as i so ophthalmologist osteo has bone so osteopath would specialize in bones auto year patho is disease peritoneal peritoneum phago to eat or swallow uh phleb vines so a phlebotomist is actually taking blood from the vein right a phlebotomist plasma or plasma formation pleuro as pleura nemo is lung so pneumonia would affect the lungs pulmo is lungs pulmonary rady is x-rays rect as rectum rain is kidney rhine rhino so rhinovirus you've heard of rhinovirus or rhinitis as a runny nose sarco flesh splint is spleen and staphylo is clusters so staphylococcus aureus so they're found in clusters strep twisted chains so streptococcus and you've heard of streptococcus all right so there are twisted chains thoraco chest thrombo is a clot tonsils tonsils trachea as tracheo and vino is vein now you want to so those are the combining forms of uh remember o is and here strip but then you always want to start with suffixes right so the way that i taught you in the beginning is you want to go from backwards to forward so you know that algae means pain sili means hernia centesis is punctured to remove fluid caucus is a berry shaped bacterium and so you had streptococcus that was the uh was the word and then site means cell so these are suffixes make sure you know suffixes before you know combining words that will help you all right so then as we go into denia that's pain so if you saw the word pleurodynia you know the plural means what lungs and indignia means pain so pain in the lung so now you're understanding how to combine these ectomy is excision removal resection you can put anything in there i can put laryngictomy what would that mean removal of the larynx right emia is a blood condition like anemia that would be decrease in earth or sites right a meaning decrease you've got genesis remember the old school uh game genesis in atari genesis now you know i'm old but yeah that's where sega genesis that's where sonic the hedgehog anyway condition of producing and for more forming so let's say we had the word pathogenesis that would mean condition of producing disease and a gram is a record that's right so like a mammogram that's a record of the breast see so now you're understanding that a graph is an instrument for recording so like electrocardiogram or electrocardiograph electroencephalography or in electroencephalograph so graphy is the process of recording but the graph is the actual instrument okay itis is the itis brothers we always talk about itis brothers so bursitis tendinitis arthritis keeps most of the medical professional and in business or the itis arthritis is probably the one that you've heard of the most but it's a i you can add itis to anything and it could be inflammation i mean you could get bronchitis tonsillitis you name it cystitis as anything is inflammation so make sure you know itis logie is the study of you can add that to anything you know biology physiology you name it terminology ophthalmology lysis is breakdown so you go hemolysis so lysis meaning what breaking down hemo meaning blood so destruction of blood hemolysis is softening so you've heard of chondromalacia that's softening of what cartilage chondromeaning cartilage megaly means enlargement so if you had a acromegaly that's enlargement of the extremities if you have a splenomegaly that would be enlargement of the spleen tumor mass collection of fluid so that's a oma so myoma would be a benign tumor of the muscle or a myosarcoma as a tumor malignant of muscle okay and opsi is to view so biopsy that's the most common biopsy to view life and osis is a condition usually abnormal so if you had necrosis that's condition of death of cells pathy is any kind of disease so let's say we get cardiomyopathy that would be disease of heart muscle deficiency is pina so leukopenia orthopedia leukopenia would be a deficiency of white blood cells phobia you have a fear there's lots of phobias hydrophobia acrophobia arachnel phobia fear spiders aplasia is development formation or growth so you get a chondroplasia which is no development of cartilage and then plasti is surgical repair so rhinoplasty you name it angioplasty would be surgical repair of blood vessels means drooping falling prolapse so visceral opticis is drooping sagging of the internal organs that can occur uh rhea flow discharge you've heard of diarrhea of course that's a flow discharge hardening so arthrosclerosis would be hardening on the vessels scope instrument for visual so laparoscope endoscope scopy is the process remember they had a y there and it's the process of examination so laparoscopy is the process but a laparoscope is the instrument and stasis is controlling or so metastasis is beyond control but hemostasis or right hemostasis would be stopping the flow of blood homeostasis is what your body is always trying to get into is trying to have a balance ostomy opening to form a mouth okay colostomy new opening of the colon you've heard of that therapy is treatment hydrotherapy chemotherapy so hydrotherapy is treatment with water chemotherapy is treatment with drugs tommy would be incision cutting into so incision into the abdomen development nourishment so if you had atrophy you would have no development which term means fear of heights so you know it's one of these fears hydrophobia acrophobia or agoraphobia so you want to know which one that is that's a good quest question you know it's not this one so you can hydro you know is water so then if you didn't know you just got to see c or d you know acrophobia is fear of extremities so break it down which one it would be all right er is one who okay so examiner one who examines ear is a condition so pneumonia condition abnormal of the lungs leukemia is a conditioner of increase in white blood cells ist is a specialist there's tons of specialist neurologists orthopedists you name it ole is little or small like an arteriole is a small artery yule is little small so like a venule is a small vein is a structure pericardium is a structure surrounding the heart us is also a structure of substance and the y is condition process so nephropathy disease of the kidney now this suffix also means acrylic is pertaining to all pronunciation to are pertaining to are pertaining to eel pertaining to and genic pertaining to so all these these are great they all mean pertaining to that's all they mean so again you have a suffix that ends with a c a l a r a r uh uh let's repeat e a l and g and i c well that is definitely all just meaning the same thing pertaining to and ick pertaining to is also oid is resembling okay so adenoids resembling glands oats pertaining to full of adipose pertaining to fat us mucus pertaining to mucus that tick pertaining to necrotic pertaining to death so look at all these uh suffices that all mean just pertaining to or resembling a-c-a-l-a-r-e-a-a-l genic oh tick all mean the same thing so this is a good area to concentrate and say well i didn't know that all that just meant the same thing so again building terms with suffices and combining forms now let's put together arthritis inflammation of the joint blepharopsis drooping eyelid ischemia loss of normal blood flow osteogenic produced by bone tissue staphylococci berry shaped bacteria that grow in clusters so a closer look what is a hernia protrusion of organ or the muscular wall of an organ through the cavity that normally contains it a cytos versus a retro seal okay so cytoseal which is the urinary bladder and a rectocele which is of the rectum so okay so protrusion of an organ or the muscular wall of an organ through the cavity that normally contains it okay scythe systole remember cystitis means urinary bladder and recto meaning rectum and so the seal right there so what is a rectocele is there a herniation of the intestine protrusion or portion of the rectum toward the vaginal wall hiatal hernia or amphocyl so the answer would be b and streptococcus encephalococcus are bacteria that grow in chains or clusters we want to look at blood cells erther sites red blood cells leukocytes white blood cells and thrombocytes or platelets are clotting cells make sure you know the difference arthrocytes again red blood cells made in the bone marrow carry oxygen from lungs to all body cells hemoglobin is a blood protein leukocytes are white blood cells five different kinds of leukocytes divide into two different categories they're either granulocytes or mononuclear sites so when you do a cbc which is your complete blood count you're look monitoring how many other sites you have how many leukocytes you have if you have an influx of leukocytes you might have some kind of infection then you can break it down and see neutrophils and esonophils and say well if you have a high rate of isonophils what does that mean again that's going into anatomy but at least you're building the foundation granulocytes three types cytophylls basal veils and neutrophils then you have mono nuclear nuclear cells two types you have lymphocytes and monocytes all right so here's the leukocytes which are white blood cells and they're divided into granulocytes and mononuclears and then you have mesonophils basophils and neutrophils which are granulocytes and then you have mononuclears which are lymphocytes and monocyte site meaning cell thrombocytes also known as platelets tiny fragments of blood cells that are formed in the bone marrow necessary for blood clotting and here's a closer look at the bloods here's the arthrothrocytes which had contained no nucleus but contain hemoglobin which is a protein then you have the granulocytes which is the sonophils granules if you actually have a high rate of esonophils you can either have a parasitic infection or allergies so people sometimes that get their blood work done if they have high eosinophil count they're either they have a tapeworm or a parasite in them or they have allergies uh interesting right so you have a basophil and then neutrophil and then the mononuclears are the lymphocytes monocytes and then you have thrombocytes right here quick quiz hotshot rememberspeed with kiana reeves love that movie which type of blood cells are necessary for clotting and you know from studying that's the thrombocytes closer look acromegaly which is a endocrine disorder occurs when the pituitary gland produces an excessive amount of growth hormone after completion of puberty often results from a benign tumor of the pituitary gland person typically has a normal height but bones and soft tissue in the hands feet and face grow abnormally abraham lincoln actually was believed to have acromegaly i don't know if you ever watch wrestling but a lot of the wrestlers have acromegaly so here's uh some wwe wrestlers um the great khali and andre the giant which unfortunately i think he passed away and most of of them usually pass away at an early age just due to the demand on the heart so this is the great kali all right what's a laparoscopy a laparoscopy depending on where your accent is laparoscopy a formula of minimally invasive surgery visual examination of the abdominal cavity using a laparoscope a lighted telescopic instrument surgeon inserts the laparoscope through an incision in the abdomen near the navel used to examine abdominal viscera for evidence of disease or for various procedures such as the gallbladder and that's what a laparoscopy looks like and then we end with adenoids which are a closer look so they're right above the soft palate right here are small masses of lymphatic tissue located in the part of the pharynx near the nose and nasal passages the little meaning it means they resemble glands as appropriate since they are neither endocrine nor exocrine glands so adonatic to me adenectomy again depending on where you put the accent may be needed if they become enlarged and block the airway from the nose to the pharynx alright hopefully that helped