Ch. 4 Flashcards
1
Q
audi/o
A
hearing
2
Q
bio
A
life
3
Q
caus, caut
A
burn
4
Q
clas, clast
A
break
5
Q
duct
A
lead, lead away
6
Q
ectas
A
dilate
7
Q
edem
A
swelling
8
Q
esthes
A
sensation
9
Q
gen/o
A
producing
10
Q
iatr/o
A
treatment
11
Q
kin/e, kin/o
A
movement, motion
12
Q
lysis, lys/o, lytic
A
breaking down
13
Q
morph/o
A
form, structure, shape
14
Q
op/ia, ops/ia, opsy
A
vision
15
Q
path, pathy
A
disease
16
Q
phage, phag/o
A
eating
17
Q
phas
A
speech
18
Q
phil
A
love for, affinity
19
Q
plegia
A
paralysis
20
Q
poiesis
A
formation, production
21
Q
schist/o, schiz/o
A
split, cleft, division
22
Q
spasm/o
A
spasm
23
Q
stasis
A
standing still, stoppage
24
Q
troph/o
A
nourishment, food
25
brachy
short
26
brady
slow
27
brev/i
short
28
cry/o
cold
29
crypt/o
hidden
30
dextr/o
right, right sided
31
dipl/o
double
32
dolich/o
long
33
glyc/o, gluc/o
sugar, sweet
34
heter/o
different
35
hom/eo, hom/o
same, alike
36
hydr/o
wet, water, fluid
37
is/o
equal, alike
38
lept/o
slender, small, thin
39
lev/o
left, to the left
40
macr/o
large
41
mal
ill, bad
42
malac/o
soft, softening
43
meg/a, meg/alo, meg/aly
large, oversize
44
necr/o
death
45
olig/o
few, little
46
orth/o
straight, normal, correct
47
pachy
thick
48
pale/o
old, primitive
49
platy
flat, wide
50
ple/o
more, many
51
poikil/o
irregular, varied
52
scler/o
hardness
53
sinister/o
left, to the left
54
sten/o
narrow, contracted
55
stere/o
solid, 3-dimensional
56
tachy
rapid, fast
57
tel/e, tel/o
distant, end
58
therm/o
heat
59
xer/o
dry
60
aqua, hydr/o
water
61
chol/e, chol/o
bile
62
chyle, chyl/o
milky fluid (product of digestion)
63
dacry/o, lacrima
tears
64
galact/o, lact/o
milk
65
hem/a, hemat/o, hem/o
blood
66
hird/o, sudor
sweat
67
lymph/o
lymph
68
mucus, muco
secretion of mucous membranes
69
myx/o
mucus
70
plasma
fluid portion of blood
71
ptyal/o
saliva
72
pus
liquid portion of imflammation
73
py/o
pus
74
sangui, sanguin/o
blood, bloody
75
serum, ser/o
clear portion of blood
76
sial/o
saliva, salivary gland
77
ur/e, ur/ea, ur/eo, ur/in, ur/ino, ur/o
urine, urea
78
adip/o
fat
79
amyl/o
starch
80
cerumen, cerumin/o
earwax
81
ole/o, ele/o
oil
82
ferrum, ferr/o
iron
83
gluco, glyc/o, sacchar/o, sacchar/i
sugar
84
hal/o
salt
85
heme
iron based, pigment part of hemoglobin
86
hormone
body produced chemical substance
87
hyal/o, hyalin
glassy, transluscent substance
88
lip/o, lipid
liquid fat, fatty acids
89
lith/o
stone, calculus
90
mel/i
honey, sugar
91
natrium
sodium
92
sal
salt
93
sebum
sebaceous gland secretion
94
albus, alba, alb
white
95
chlor/o, choloros
green
96
chrom/o, chromat/o
color
97
cirrhos
orange, yellow
98
cyan/o
blue
99
erythr/o
red
100
leuc/o, leuk/o
white
101
lutein
saffron yellow
102
melan/o
black
103
photo
light
104
poli/o
grey, relating to grey matter of the nervous system
105
rhod/o
red
106
ruber, rubor
redness
107
xanth/o
yellow, yellowish
