Medical Terminology Simplified

3–22 An aden/oma is a benign (not malignant) neo/plasm in which the tumor

cells form glands or glandlike structures. The tumor is usually well circumscribed,

tending to compress rather than infiltrate or invade adjacent tissue.

Build a word that means tumor composed of glandular tissue.

__________ / __________

3–23 Lip/oand adip/oare CFs that mean fat.A lip/ectomy is excision of fat or

adipose tissue.

Use adip/oto form another surgical term that means excision of fat.

__________ / ____________________

3–24 Adip/oma and lip/oma are terms that mean fatty tumor.Both are benign tu-

mors consisting of fat cells.

The CFs in this frame that mean fat are __________ / _____ and

__________ / _____.

A third CF that refers to fat is ____________________ / _____.

3–25 The dermis is attached to underlying structures of the skin by (8) subcuta-

neous tissue.Identify and label the layer of subcutaneous tissue in Figure 3–2.

3–26 Sub/cutane/ous tissue forms lip/o/cytes, also known as fat cells.

Determine words in this frame that mean

pertaining to under or below the skin:

__________ / ____________________ / __________

fat cells:__________ / _____ / ____________________

3–27 Whereas a lip/o/cyte is a fat __________, an adip/oma is a fatty

____________________.

Competency Verification: Check your labeling of Figure 3–2 in Appendix B: Answer Key, page 567.

3–28 Suction lip/ectomy, also called lip/o/suction,is removal of sub/cutane/ous

fat tissue using a blunt-tipped cannula (tube) introduced into the fatty area through

a small incision. Suction is applied and fat tissue is removed. Locate the

sub/cutane/ous tissue in Figure 3–1.

3–29 Identify terms in Frame 3–28 that mean

under the skin:__________ / ____________________ / __________

excision of fat:__________ / ____________________ or

__________ / _____ / ____________________.

Frame 3–14to Frame 3–29

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aden/oma

ăd-ĕ-NŌ-mă

adip/ectomy

ăd-ĭ-PĔK-tō-mē

adip/o, lip/o

steat/o

sub/cutane/ous

sŭb-kū-TĀ-nē-ŭs

lip/o/cytes

LĬP-ō-sītz

cell, tumor

sub/cutane/ous

sŭb-kū-TĀ-nē-ŭs

lip/ectomy orlip/o/suction

lĭ-PĔK-tō-mē, LĪP-ō-sŭk-

shŭn