Medical Terminology Lesson 8: Exercise 2

pain in the abdomen

abdominalgia

agent that prevents or relieves coughing

antitussive

(morbid) fear of bacilli

bacillophobia

calculus formed in a bursa

bursolith

unit of heat

calorie

head shaped

captate

any disease of the brain

cerebropathy

pertaining to a rib and its cartilage

costochondral

situated toward the back of the head

dorsocephalad

development of fibrous tissue

fibrogenesis

excess amount of insulin (in the blood)

hyperinsulinemia

cell that stores fat

lipocyte

formation of calculi

lithogenesis

device for measuring the size of an opening or a passage

meatometer

study of the nose

nasology

behind the ear

retroauricular

pertaining to the blood supply of the kidneys

sanguirenal

tumor arising from a synovial membrane

synovioma

plastic repair of any tube

tuboplasty

generalized enlargement of the internal (abdominal) organs

visceromegaly