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New Combining Form and Suffix Handout

For each combining form below, write out its meaning and then locate a new term from the chapter that uses the combining form or suffix.

Combining Forms Meaning

1. ambly/o dull, dim

2. aque/o

3. blast/o

4. blephar/o

5. chromat/o

6. conjunctiv/o

7. corne/o

8. cycl/o

9. dacry/o

10. dipl/o

11. emmetr/o

12. glauc/o

13. ir/o

14. irid/o

15. kerat/o

16. lacrim/o

17. macul/o

18. mi/o

19. mydr/i

20. nyctal/o

21. ocul/o

22. ophthalm/o

23. opt/o

Combining Forms Meaning

24. optic/o

25. papill/o

26. phac/o

27. phot/o

28. presby/o

29. pupill/o

30. retin/o

31. scler/o

32. stigmat/o

33. uve/o

34. vitre/o

35. acous/o

36. audi/o

37. audit/o

38. aur/o

39. auricul/o

40. cerumin/o

41. cochle/o

42. labyrinth/o

43. mying/o

44. ot/o

45. salping/o

46. staped/o

47. tympan/o

48. vestibul/o _______________ _______________ _______________

Suffixes

49. -ician

Meaning

50. -metrist

51. -opia

52. -opsia

53. -phobia _______________ _______________ _______________

54. -tropia

55. -cusis

56. -otia

Prefixes

57. eso- _______________ ________________ _______________

58. exo- _______________ ________________ _______________

59. myo- _______________ ________________ _______________

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Medical Term Analysis

Directions: Below are terms built from word parts used in this chapter. Many are built from word parts you have learned in previous chapters. Analyze each term presented below and list and define the word parts used to build each term.

Medical Term Word Part Analysis

1. aqueous aque/o = water; -ous = pertaining to

2. vitreous

3. nyctalopia

4. optometry

5. presbyopia

6. amblyopia

7. monochromatism

8. exotropia

9. hemianopia

10. keratometry

11. ophthalmoscopy

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Chapter Review

Anatomy and Physiology

1. The carries images to the brain.

2. The opening in the center of the iris is the .

3. The is the blind spot on the retina.

4. see in gray tones and see in color.

5. The produces tears.

6. The eye muscles produce diagonal eye movements.

7. The inner ear is responsible for the senses of and

.

8. The divides the outer ear from the middle ear.

9. The incus, malleus, and stapes are collectively called the .

10. The is a fluid-filled cavity within the temporal bone.

Word Building

Directions: Build a term that means:

1. drooping eyelid

2. paralysis of ciliary body

3. double vision

4. pertaining to within eye

5. softening of sclera

6. retina disease

7. incision into eardrum

8. surgical repair of ear

9. instrument to measure hearing

10. eustachian tube inflammation

Matching

_____ 1. nyctalopia

_____ 2. presbyopia

_____ 3. optician

_____ 4. papilledema

_____ 5. xerophthalmia

_____ 6. achromatopsia

_____ 7. photophobia

_____ 8. amblyopia

_____ 9. myopia

_____ 10. glaucoma

_____ 11. cataract

_____ 12. retinoblastoma

_____ 13. hordeolum

_____ 14. blepharoptosis

_____ 15. strabismus

_____ 16. fluorescein staining

_____ 17. visual acuity

_____ 18. binaural

_____ 19. tinnitus

_____ 20. cerumen

_____ 21. vertigo

_____ 22. PE tubes

_____ 23. OM

_____ 24. LASIK

_____ 25. mydriatic

a. Dry eyes

b. Ringing in the ears

c. Eye tumor in children

d. Sensitivity to strong light

e. Middle ear infection

f. Increase in intraocular pressure

g. Procedure to treat myopia

h. Night-blindness

i. Sharpness of vision

j. Lazy eye

k. Looks for corneal abrasions

l. Grinds corrective lens

m. Dizziness

n. A stye

o. Loss of vision with aging

p. Ear wax

q. Drooping eyelid

r. Allows drainage of fluid from middle ear

s. Choked disk

t. Opaque lens

u. Dilates the pupil

v. Nearsightedness

w. Referring to both ears

x. Color blindness

y. Caused by eye muscle weakness

PART II: Matching

Directions: Match the term with its definition.

_____ 1. enucleation

_____ 2. anti-emetic

_____ 3. cochlear implant

_____ 4. labyrinthitis

_____ 5. otosclerosis

_____ 6. radial keratotomy

_____ 7. Snellen chart

_____ 8. hemianopia

_____ 9. scleral buckling

_____ 10. pterygium

a. Treatment for sensorineural hearing loss

b. Treatment for myopia

c. Hypertrophied conjunctiva

d. Surgical removal of eyeball

e. Treatment for detached retina

f. Loss of half the visual field

g. Inner ear infection

h. Test for visual acuity

i. Treats nausea

j. Loss of mobility of stapes

PART III: Abbreviations

Directions: Write the full meaning of the following abbreviations.

1. EENT

2. XT

3. VA

4. OM

5. PE tube