202 ADDITIONAL SUFFIXES AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TERMINOLOGY

EXERCISES
Remember to check your answers carefully with the Answers to Exercises, pages 208 and 209.

A Give the meanings of the following suffixes.

digestion
1. -pepsia _____________________________
spitting
2. -ptysis ______________________________
vomiting
3. -emesis _____________________________
eating, swallowing
4. -phagia _____________________________
flow discharge
5. -rrhea ______________________________
bursting foth (of blood)
6. -rrhage, -rrhagia _____________________
suture
7. -rrhaphy ____________________________
surgical repair
8. -plasty ______________________________
9. -ectasis, -ectasia stretching, dilation, dilatation, widening
______________________
tightening, stricture, narrowing
10. -stenosis ____________________________
stopping, controlling
11. -stasis ______________________________
involuntary contraction of muscle
12. -spasm _____________________________
opening
13. -tresia ______________________________

B Give medical terms for the definitions that follow. Use the listed combining forms as
appropriate to create terms.
chol/e gastr/o herni/o
cholangi/o hemat/o palat/o
choledoch/o hem/o pylor/o

6
holeostasis
1. stoppage of bile (flow) ______________________________________________________________
herniorrhaphy
2. suture of a hernia _________________________________________________________________
cholangiectasis
3. dilation of bile ducts _______________________________________________________________
hemoptysis
4. spitting up blood (from the respiratory tract) ___________________________________________
hematemesis
5. vomiting blood (from the digestive tract) ______________________________________________
palotoplasty
6. surgical repair of roof of the mouth ___________________________________________________
pyloric stenosis
7. narrowing of the pyloric sphincter ___________________________________________________
gastrorrhagia
8. bursting forth of blood from the stomach ______________________________________________
9. sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles at the distal region of the stomach
pylorospasm
_________________________________________________________________________________
hemorrhage
10. bursting forth of blood _____________________________________________________________
choledochotomy
11. incision of the common bile duct ____________________________________________________