Here are beginnings about tests and procedures:

• Echo - means using ultrasonic waves
• Electro - means using electricity

Here are endings about tests and procedures:

• - Ectomy means removal of
• - Gram means a picture
• - Graph or - graphy means the process of making a picture
• - Otomy means making a cut in
• - Scopy means use of instrument for viewing
• - Stomy means create an opening

Beginnings and endings about problems:

• Dys - is not working correctly
• Mal - is bad
• - Emia is blood condition
• - Itis is inflammation
• - Osis is condition or disease
• - Pathy is disease

Beginnings and endings about specialties and specialists: who are you going to see?

• - Ology is the study of a part of the body
  So...
• An - ologist means a person working with a specific part of the body or a specific disease


• - Iatry is a medical treatment
  So...
• An - iatrist means a person providing specific treatment