Urinary and endocrine systems
Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers.
Practice
Let’s practice at adding suffixes to the root words for the urinary and endocrine systems we are studying this week. Below are some suffixes that can be used for the medical terminology of most systems. Suffixes are placed at the end of a word root or word part to modify or vary the meaning. Suffixes can indicate a condition, disease, or procedure. When a suffix is written detached it is preceded by a hyphen (-).
| SUFFIXES | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| -ac. -al, -ar, -ary | Pertaining to |
| -ic | Pertaining to, characteristics |
| -ose, -ous | Pertaining to |
| -tic | Pertaining to |
| -centesis | surgical puncture as to aspirate or remove fluid |
| -Cision | process of cutting |
| -ectomy | excision (surgical removal or cutting out) |
| -gram | a drawing or a written record |
| -graph | product of a drawing, writing or recording |
| -graphic | the process of recording |
| -a | condition |
| -ism | condition process, theory of, principle, method |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -biologist | one who studies |
| -ology | study of |
| -lysis | process of loosening, freeing, or destroying |
| -ops | to view |
| -osis | condition, status process |
| -ostomy | cutting into |
| -ostomy | formation of an opening |
| -plastic | surgical repair |
| -pathy | disease |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | instrument for viewing |
| -scopy | visual examination with a lighted instrument |
| -sis | state of, condition |
| -stasis | to stand, place, stop, control |
| -stenosis | narrowing |
| -tension | pressure |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -thoracic | chest |
| -ule | small |
Ref: https://nursecepts.com/medical-terminology-of-the-endocrine-system/
Provide a list of 15 root terms with suffixes added.
Include the following aspects in the discussion:
- Choose five root terms from both systems covered this week (renal and endocrine)
- Avoid terms peers have used include the root, the suffix, the combined term, and the meaning of the combined term
- Discuss your peers’ lists. Are they correct? Do you agree with them?
- Cite any references. At all times proper grammar, sentence structure, and spelling
