2nd Semester Final: Chapters 10-16 Flashcards
Hem/o, hemat/o
Blood
-emia
Blood condition
Poly-
Many, much
Lymph/o
Lymph
A-
Without, not
Sub-
Under, below
Calcane/o
Calcaneum (heel bone)
Rhabd/o
Rod shape (striated)
Amni/o
Amnion (amniotic sac)
-osis
Abnormal condition; increase (usually blood cells)
-phoresis
Carrying, transmission
Ped/o, ped/i
Foot, child
Arthr/o
Joint
Muscul/o, my/o
Muscle
Noct/o
Night
Balan/o
Glans penis
Orch/o, orchid/o, orchi/o, test/o
Testis
Vas/o
Vas deferens, vessel, duct
Vesicul/o
Seminal vesicle
-asthenia
Weakness, debility
-malacia
Softening
Oste/o
Bone
Orth/o
Straight
Cost/o
Ribs
Crani/o
Cranium (skull)
Femor/o
Femur (thigh bone)
-clasia, -clast
To break, surgical fracture
-uria
Urine
-spadias
Slit, fissure
-desis
Binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)
-scopy
Visual examination
Supra-
Above, excessive, superior
Cyst/o, Vesic/o
Bladder
Lith/o
Stone, calculus
Nephr/o, ren/o
Kidney
Pyel/o
Renal pelvis
-ism
Condition
-genesis
Forming, producing, orgin
Py/o
Pus
-esthesia
Feeling
Dia-
Through, across
Retro-
Backward, behind
Salping/o
Tube (usually Fallopian or eustachian tubes)
Colp/o, vagin/o
Vagina
Oophor/o, ovari/o
Ovary
Ante-
Before , in front of
-gravida
Pregnant woman
Endo-
In, within