Medical Terminology Simplified

3–87 The CF sarc/omeans flesh (connective tissue).Kaposi sarc/oma, a malignant

skin tumor commonly associated with patients who are diagnosed with acquired im-

munodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is usually fatal. Initially, the tumor appears as a

purplish brown lesion.

The abbreviation for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is __________.

The type of skin cancer associated with the AIDS virus is ____________________

__________ / __________.

3–88 The CF necr/ois used in words to denote death or necr/osis. Necr/o/tic is a

word that means pertaining to necr/osis or____________________.

3–89 The term necr/osis is used to denote the death of areas of tissue or bone

surrounded by healthy tissue. Cellular necr/osis means that the cells are__________.

3–90 Bony necr/osis occurs when dead bone tissue results from the loss of blood

supply (for example, after a fracture). The term that means abnormal condition of

death is __________ / __________.

3–91 Gangrene is a form of necr/osis associated with loss of blood supply. Before

healing can take place, the dead matter must be removed.

When there is an injury to blood flow, a form of necr/osis may develop that is known

as ____________________.

3–92 In the English language, an auto/graph is a signature written by oneself. In

medical words, auto-is used as a prefix and means self, own.

Auto/hypnosis is hypnosis of one’s __________.

Auto/examination is an examination of one’s __________.

An auto/graft is skin transplanted from one’s __________.

3–93 A graft is tissue transplanted or implanted in a part of the body to repair a

defect. Grafts done with tissue transplanted from the patient’s own skin are called

__________ / ____________________.

3–94 A derm/a/tome* is an instrument used to incise or cut. When there is a

need to graft a thin slice of skin, the physician asks for an instrument called a

__________ / _____ / __________.

3–95 Skin transplanted from another person does not survive very long. Thus, a

graft is typically performed using tissue transplanted from the patient’s own skin.

This surgical procedure is called an __________ / ____________________.

*The use of aas the connecting vowel is an exception to the rule of using an o.

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Boldfaceindicates a word root or combining form. Blueindicates a suffix. Pinkindicates a prefix.

AIDS

Kaposi sarc/oma

KĂP-ō-sē săr-KŌ-mă

death

dead

necr/osis

nĕ-KRŌ-sĭs

gangrene

GĂNG-grēn

self

self

self

auto/grafts

AW-tō-grăfts

derm/a/tome

DĔR-mă-tōm

auto/graft

AW-tō-grăft