Chap 10, Nervous System, Terminology, Combining Forms, Prefixes, Suffixes Flashcards
alges/o, -algesia
excessive sensitivity to pain
angi/o
vessel (blood)
caus/o
burning
cephal/o
head
cerebell/o
cerebellum
cerebr/o
cerebrum
comat/o
deep sleep (coma)
crani/o
skull
cry/o
cold
dur/o
dura mater
encephal/o
brain
esthesi/o
feeling, nervous sensation
gli/o
glio cells
hydr/o
water
kines/o, kinesi/o
movement
lept/o
thin, slender
lex/o
word, phrase
mening/o, meningi/o
membranes, meninges
my/o
muscle
myel/o
spinal cord or bone marrow
narc/o
numbness, stupor, sleep
neur/o
nerve
olig/o
scanty
pont/o
pons
radicul/o
nerve root of spinal nerves
spin/o
spine, backbone
syncop/o
to cut off, cut short, faint
tax/o
order, coordination
thalam/o
thalamus
thec/o
sheath (refers to the meninges)
troph/o
nourishment, development
vag/o
vagus nerve (10th cranial nerve)
a-, an-
no, not, without
dys-
bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
epi-
above, upon, on
hemi-
half
hyper-
above, excessive
hypo-
deficient, below, under, less than normal
intra-
within; into
micro-
small
para-
near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of
polio-
gray matter (of brain or spinal cord)
poly-
many; much; increased
quadri-
four
sub-
under; below
-algesia
excessive sensitivity to pain
-algia
pain
-blast
embryonic; immature cell
-cele
hernia
-esthesia
feeling, nervous sensation
-gram
record
-graphy
process of recording
-ine
pertaining to
-itis
inflammation
-kinesia, -kinesis
movement
-kinetic
movement
-lepsy
seizure
-oma
tumor; mass; fluid collection
-ose
full of; pertaining to; sugar
-paresis
weakness
-pathy
disease; emotion
-phagia
condition of eating or swallowing
-phasia
speech
-plegia
paralysis; loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body
-praxia
action
-ptosis
falling; drooping; prolapse
-sclerosis
hardening
-sthenia
strength
-tomy
process of cutting
-trophy
nourishment; development; (condition of)