Word Elements for Chapter 6 Special Sensory Organs: Eye & Ear

Match the following prefixes with the correct meaning!

• half

• hemi-

• not; without

• extra-

• outside

• an-

Match the following prefixes with the correct meaning!

• around

• intra-

• near; beside

• para-

• inside; within

• peri-

Match the following roots and combining vowels with the correct meaning!

• eyelid

• audi/o

• eye

• ocul/o

• hearing

• blephar/o

• tympanic membrane; eardrum

• myring/o

Match the following roots and combining vowels with the correct meaning!

• ear

• tympan/o

• tympanic membrane; eardrum

• ot/o

• eye

• optic/o

• eye; vision

• ophthalm/o

Match the following suffixes with the correct meaning!

• pertaining to

• -ar

• study of

• -itis

• inflammation

• -ic

• pertaining to

• -logy

• specialist in the study and treatment of

• -logist

Match the following suffixes with the correct meaning!

• vision

• -opia

• incision; cut into

• -ptosis

• drooping; downward displacement

• -rrhexis

• rupture

• -tomy

Type the meaning of audiology below.

Type the meaning of blepharitis below.

Type the meaning of myringotomy below.

Type the meaning of ocular below.