Medical Terminology Surgical and Diagnostic Terms

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms This segment deals with word parts that pertain to surgical procedures and are used to describe means of treating a disease or injury as well as the diagnostic terms used Many terms referring to body structures and how they are used in descriptions of surgery and diagnostic terminology are also introduced

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Surgery is the treatment of disease, injury or deformity by manual or operative methods Diagnosis is the identification of disease or condition by scientific evaluation of symptoms, signs, history, tests or procedures

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Commonly used surgical suffixes: ▪ -tomy (to cut) ▪ -ectomy (excision) ▪ -tome (cutting instrument) ▪ -scopy (visual exam) ▪ -scope (viewing instrument) ▪ -lysis (destroy)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Commonly used surgical suffixes: ▪ -centesis (surgical puncture) ▪ -pexy (surgical fixation) ▪ -plasty (surgical repair) ▪ -tripsy (surgical crushing) ▪ -rrhaphy (suture)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Commonly used diagnostic suffixes: ▪ -algia (pain) ▪ -dynia (pain) ▪ -oid (resembling) ▪ -ectasia (stretch, dilate) ▪ -ectasis (stretch, dilate) ▪ -edema (swelling)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Commonly used diagnostic suffixes: ▪ -emesis (vomit) ▪ -malacia (soft) ▪ -megaly (enlargement) ▪ -stasis (stoppage, stablity) ▪ -penia (deficiency)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Commonly used diagnostic suffixes: ▪ -rrhage (excessive bleeding) ▪ -rrhea (flow) ▪ -rrhexis (rupture) ▪ -spasm (twitch) ▪ -opaque (impervious to light)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Body structure root words and combing forms: ▪ cutane(o) (skin) ▪ derm(a) (skin) ▪ blephar(o) (eyelid) ▪ encephal(o) (brain) ▪ cerebr(o) (brain) ▪ tonsill(o) (tonsil)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Body structure root words and combing forms: ▪ carp(o) (wrist) ▪ chir(o) (hand) ▪ mamm(o) (breast) ▪ mast(o) (breast) ▪ vas(o) (vessel) ▪ angi(o) (vessel)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Body structure root words and combing forms: ▪ aden(o) (gland) ▪ append(o) (appendix) ▪ col(o) (colon) ▪ amni(o) (amnion) ▪ oste(o) (bone)

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Instrument root words and combing forms: ▪ son(o) (sound) ▪ ech(o) (sound) ▪ fluor(o) (light emission) ▪ electr(o) (electric)

Additional Terminology Dilation - stretched beyond normal limits Adhesion - a fibrous band or structure that abnormally attaches body parts Excision - removal of a structure Incision - a cut or wound produced by a sharp object

Additional Terminology Symptom - subjective evidence of a patient’s disease or condition Prognosis - prediction of a probable outcome of a disease or condition Suture - closing an opening by stitches Stoma - artificially produced opening in a body structure

Additional Terminology Resection - removal of a portion of a body structure Spasm - sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle Prolapse - the drooping or sagging of a body structure

Surgical & Diagnostic Terms Be able to recognize or write the meanings of the abbreviations at the back of the chapter