Terminology difficulties can someone please give me a hand?

AusNurse2B · Sep 10, 2007

I have 6 words that I am trying to figure out??
hematology
pathology
laparotomy
cystoscopy
exocrine
electrocardiogram
I know the defintions I just don't know where the suffix, root or roots , prefix combining vowel and combining form are can someone please give me a helping hand I am litterally lost

hema - blood -

patho - disease

-logy - field of study

-tomy - to cut

laparo - loins or abdomen

cysto - a bladder esp. urinary bladder

-crine - separate

exo - outside

-gram - data that are systematically recorded

is that what you are after??:uhoh21:

Music in My Heart · Sep 11, 2007

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Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

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Daytonite, BSN, RN · Sep 12, 2007

hematology (hemato + ology)

pathology (patho + ology)

laparotomy (laparo + otomy)

cystoscopy (cysto + scopy)

exocrine (exo + crine)

electrocardiogram (electro + cardio + gram)

you may know the definitions, but do you know the rules of combining?

do you have a medical dictionary? every single one of these word roots, suffixes and prefix with the exception of "-crine" are in a section of the appendix of my 10 year old copy of taber's cyclopedic medical dictionary, 18th edition, published in 1997 by f.a. davis company. each of the above word roots and suffixes is also an entry in the main section of the dictionary as well.

the only one you're going to have trouble with is "-crine". it comes from the greek krinein which means to secrete. combined with the prefix, exo-, which means outside, exocrine literally means "to excrete outside (a duct)".