chapter 1 Flashcards
caud/o
tail
cephal/o
head
cervic/o
neck of the uterus
cost/o
rib
dist/o
far from point of origin
enter/o
intestines- usually small
gastr/o
stomach
hist/o
tissue
infer/o
below
medi/o
middle
path/o
disease
poster/o
back of body; behind
proxim/o
close to point of origin
sarc/o
flesh; connective tissue
-ior
pertaining to
-ical
pertaining to
-ic
pertaining to
-ial
pertaining to
-ary
pertaining to
-al
pertaining to
-iac
pertaining to
-ar
pertaining to
-ac
pertaining to
-um
structure; tissue; thing
-tomy
process of cutting; incision
-stomy
surgical opening
-plasty
surgical repair
-pathy
disease
-osis
abnormal condition
-oma
tumor; mass
-megally
enlargement
-ine
a substance (noun) pertaining to (adj)
-ia
condition
-emia
blood condition
-ectomy
surgical removal of
-algia
pain
trans-
across
supra-
above
sub-
below; under
peri-
around; surrounding
intra-
within; into
epi-
on; over; upon
endo-
in; within
ante-
before
a-, an-
not; without
viscer/o
internal organs
ventr/o
belly side of body; ventral aspect
thorac/o
chest
super/o
above
bi-
two
anti-
against
anter/o
front
brady-
slow
hyper-
above normal; excessive
hypo-
below normal; efficient
inter-
between
tachy-
fast
-cyte
cell
-gen
substance that produces
-itis
inflammation
-logoist
specialist
-logy
stdy of
neur/o
nerve
my/o
muscle
log/o
study
lip/o
fat
later/o
sides of body
hepat/o
liver
glyc/o
sugar
cyt/o
cell
col/o, colon/o
large intestine; colon
cardi/o
heart
bi/o
life
arthr/o
joint