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What does the term optical mean?
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Pertaining to the eye
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What does therapy mean?
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Treatment
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What is the term for an agent that is used to produce loss of feeling?
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Anesthetic
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Which of the following is NOT a surgical suffix?
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-plasty
-malacia
-rrahpy
-stomy
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What is the term for an abnormally high body temperature?
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Hyperpyrexial
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Which structure does the term omphalorrhexis relate to?
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The umbilicus
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What is the term for a general intoxication of the body caused by absorption of bacterial toxins?
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Toxemia
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What is not a combining form that is generally associated with radiology?
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Opt(o)
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What does virulence mean?
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The degree of disease-causing capability of an organism
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What is the term for the type of blood transfusion in which blood is removed from the patient and stored for a variable period before it is transfused back into the patient?
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Autologous
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What term means a substance does NOT permit the passage of x-rays?
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Radiopaque
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What is studied in oncology?
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Tumors
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What is the term for objective evidence of an illness or disordered function?
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Sign
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What does -cele mean?
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Hernia
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What does lactase mean?
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An enzyme that acts on the main sugar found in milk
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