Ch 2: body structure, color and oncology Flashcards
latin roots and medical terms, abbreviations
aden/o
gland
cyt/o
cell
epitheli/o
epithilium
fibr/o
fiber
hist/o
tissue
kary/o
nucleus
lip/o
fat
my/o
muscle
neuro/o
nerve
organ/o
organ
sarc/o
flesh, connective tissue
system/o
system
viscer/o
internal organs
cancer/o or carcin/o
both words for cancer
eti/o
cause (of disease
gno/o
knowledge
iatr/o
physician, medicine (also means treatment)
lei/o
smooth
onc/o
tumor, mass
path/o
disease
rhabd/o
rod-shaped, striated
somat/o
body
chlor/o
green
chrom/o
color
cyn/o
blue
erythr/o
red
leuk/o
white
melan/o
black
xanth/o
yellow
dia-
through, complete
dys-
painful
hyper-
above, excessive
hypo-
below, incomplete deficient
meta-
after, beyond, change
neo-
new
pro-
before
-al, -ic, -ous
pertaining to
-cyte
cell
-gen
substance or agent that produces or causes
-genesis
origin, cause
-genic
producing, originating, causing
-logist
one who studies
-logy
study of
-oid
resembling
-oma
tumor, swelling
-osis
abnormal conditioning, (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)
-pathy
disease
-plasia
condition of formation, development growth
-plasm,
growth, substance, formation
-sarcoma
malignant tumor
-sis
state of
-stasis
control, stop, standing