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

Match the following prefixes with the correct meaning!

• half

• extra-

• outside

• hemi-

• not; without

• an-

Match the following prefixes with the correct meaning!

• around

• peri-

• near; beside

• intra-

• inside; within

• para-

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

• hearing

• blephar/o

• eye

• audi/o

• eyelid

• ocul/o

• tympanic membrane; eardrum

• myring/o

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

• tympanic membrane; eardrum

• tympan/o

• eye; vision

• optic/o

• eye

• ot/o

• ear

• ophthalm/o

Match the following suffixes with the correct meaning!

• specialist in the study and treatment of

• -ar

• pertaining to

• -ic

• inflammation

• -logy

• pertaining to

• -logist

• study of

• -itis

Match the following suffixes with the correct meaning!

• drooping; downward displacement

• -opia

• incision; cut into

• -rrhexis

• vision

• -tomy

• rupture

• -ptosis

Type the meaning of audiology below.

Type the meaning of blepharitis below.

Type the meaning of myringotomy below.

Type the meaning of ocular below.