Medical Terminology Simplified

5–46 Ven/ois a combining form that means __________.

5–47 Phleb/ois another CF for vein.Phleb/o/tomy is a procedure used to draw

blood from a __________.

5–48 Use phleb/oto construct words that mean

suture of a vein:____________________ / _____ / ____________________

rupture of a vein:____________________ / _____ / ____________________

stricture or narrowing of a vein:

____________________ / _____ / ____________________

5–49 Use ven/o to form words that mean

hardening of a vein:__________ / _____ / ____________________ / __________

incision of a vein:__________ / _____ / __________

contraction or twitching of a vein:__________ / _____ / ____________________

5–50 Hemat/oand hem/omean ____________________.

5–51 Use hemat/oto form words that mean

study of blood:____________________ / _____ / __________

specialist in the study of blood:

____________________ / _____ / ____________________

5–52 The CF angi/omeans vessel (usually blood or lymph). An angioma is a tumor

consisting primarily of blood or ____________________ ____________________.

5–53 Hem/oand angi/ocan be combined into a new element that also means

blood vessel.Use hemangi/o(blood vessel) to develop a word that meanstumor of

blood vessels:____________________ / __________.

5–54 Hemangi/ectasis is a dilation or ____________________ of a blood vessel.

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

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vein

VĀN

blood

vein

VĀN

phleb/o/rrhaphy

flĕb-ŎR-ă-fē

phleb/o/rrhexis

flĕb-ō-RĔK-sĭs

phleb/o/stenosis

flĕb-ō-stĕ-NŌ-sĭs

ven/o/scler/osis

vēn-ō-sklĕ-RŌ-sĭs

ven/o/tomy

vē-NŎT-ō-mē

ven/o/spasm

VĒ-nō-spăzm

hemat/o/logy

hē-mă-TŎL-ō-jē

hemat/o/logist

hē-mă-TŎL-ō-jĭst

lymph vessels

hemangi/oma

hē-măn-jē-Ō-mă

expansion