SPECIAL SENSES: EYES AND EARS
CHAPTER REVIEW
WORD ELEMENTS SUMMARY
The table below summarizes CFs, suffixes, and prefixes related to the special senses. Study the word elements and
their meanings before completing the Word Elements Chapter Review that follows.
Special Senses: Eyes and Ears Chapter Review • CHAPTER 11 541541Word Element Meaning Word Element Meaning
Combining Forms
acous/o, audi/ hearing my/o muscle
o, audit/o
blephar/o eyelid myring/o, tympan/o tympanic membrane (eardrum)
choroid/o choroid neur/o nerve
chromat/o color ocul/o, ophthalm/o eye
cochle/o cochlea ot/o ear
corne/o cornea presby/o old age
dacry/o, lacrim/o tear; lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, retin/o retina
or gland)
dipl/o double salping/o tube (usually fallopian or
eustachian [auditory] tubes)
erythr/o red scler/o hardening; sclera (white of the
eye)
irid/o iris ton/o tension
kerat/o horny tissue; hard; cornea xanth/o yellow
Suffixes
-acusis hearing -pathy disease
-algia, -dynia pain -plasty surgical repair
-ectomy excision, removal -ptosis prolapse, downward displacement
-edema swelling -rrhexis rupture
-logist specialist in the study of -salpinx tube (usually fallopian or
eustachian [auditory] tubes)
-logy study of -scope instrument for examining
-malacia softening -scopy visual examination
-metry act of measuring -spasm involuntary contraction,
twitching
-oma tumor -stenosis narrowing, stricture
-opia, -opsia vision -tomy incision
-osis abnormal condition; increase -tropia turning
(used primarily with
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