Anatomy_ Word Roots_2 Flashcards
phragm
partition
psoas
loin
quad
four
rectus
straight
rhomb
diamond-shaped
risor
laughter
sartor
tailor
semi-
half
serrat
saw
sphinct
squeeze
synerg
work together
teres
round
trapez
trapezoid-shaped
vastus
large
af-
towards
arbor
tree
astro
star
axo
axle, axis
chroma
color
dendro
tree
ependymal
wrap
NAME?
to carry
gangli
swelling, knot
glia
glue
mono
one
myel, myelo
marrow, the spinal cord
neur
nerve
oligo
few
phil, philo
loving
poly
many
propri
“one’s own”
aqua
water
arachno
spider
cele
sac
cereb
brain
chiasm
crossing
commis
united
conus
cone
decuss
crossing
dura
tough
encephal
brain
equin
horse
falx
sickle
folia
leaves
fornix
arch
funicul
rope or cord
gyra
round
homuncul
little man
lemnisc
ribbon
limbus
headband
mater
mother
meningo
membrane
pia
tender
plegia
a blow or strike
rostr
snout
rubro
red
tect
roof
tentori
tent
thalam
inner room
vermi
worm
vita
life
axilla
armpit
bara
pressure
cutane
skin
esthesi
sensation
extern
outside, outer
fusi
spindle
herpes
creeping
noci
harm
osmi
a smell, odor
peripher
outer surface
phren
diaphragm
plex, plexus
interwoven
pudenda
shameful
sciatic
of the hip
therm
heat
vag
wondering
vestibul
a porch
celi
hollow, the abdominal cavity
entero
gut, intestine
nomos
law, governing
oti, oto
ear
ren
kidney
splanchn
viscera
stella
star
supra-
above
caruncul
bit of flesh
choroid
membrane
cochlea
a snail, spiral
crista
crest
fungi
mushroom
genicul
knee
gusta
taste
humor
fluid
iris
rainbow
labyrinth
maze
lith
stone
lymph
water
macula
spot
myringo
eardrum
olfact
smell
NAME?
vision
opthalmo
eye
ora
mouth
palpebral
eyelid
photo
light
prosby
old person
rhino
nose
scala
ladder
stigma
a spot
strabism
squint eye
vitre
glassy
andro
male
anti-
against
diuret
urinate
gest
carried
glomer
ball of yarn, ball
gon, gono
seed, offspring
hormon
excite
infundibul
funnel
lact
milk
lut
yellow
natri
salt (Na)
phil
loving
phob
fearing
pro-
before
ureo
urine
alba
white
diapede
to ooze through
NAME?
blood
erythro
red
globu
ball or globe
karyo
nucleus
leuko
white
macro
large
mego
large
myelo
marrow
ortho
straight
phage
eat
poiesis
to make
sero (serum)
fluid
thrombo
a clot
vaso
vessel
angina
something choked
apex
the tip, extremity
atri
vestibule, entry way
carneo
flesh
crura
legs
cusp
pointed
diastole
dilation
infarct
stuffed, filled in
intercalate
insert between
isch
hold, suppress
mitr
a cap, turban
pectin
a comb
pulmon
lung
septa
a fence
steno
narrow
systol
contraction
ventricul
the belly
anastomos
coming together
azygo
unpaired
epiplo
omenta, thin membrane
fenestra
window
hemi-
half
hepat
liver
intima
innermost
NAME?
little
jugul
the throat
lingua
tongue
lumen
light
medi
middle
ophthalmo
eye
rrhoid
flow
saphen
clear, apparent
sigma
like the letter S
tunic
a covering
chyl
juice, chyle
corpusc
little body
crypt
hidden
ectomy
cutting out
ferent
to carry
follicul
little bag
germin
grow
hilum
a trifle, a little thing
toxic
poison
aryten
a ladle
asthma
gasping
bronch
windpipe
conch
shell
cornic
crow
ectasis
dilation
emphys
inflate
glotti
tongue
laryn
gullet
meatus
a passage
pharyn
throat
pleura
the side, rib
pneuma
air, breath
respir
breath
rime
fissure
vestib
a porch
aliment
nourish
ampulla
a flask