Chapter 1 Flashcards
aden/o
gland
arthr/o
joint
bi/o
life
carcin/o
cancer
cardi/o
steth/o
coron/o
heart
cephal/o
head
encephal/o
brain
cerebr/o
cerebrum
cyst/o
urinary bladder
cyt/o
cell
derm/o
dermat/o
skin
electr/o
electricity
enter/o
intestines
erythr/o
red
gastr/o
stomach
gnos/o
knowledge
gynec/o
woman/female
hemat/o
hem/o
blood
hepat/o
liver
lapar/o
abdomen
leuk/o
white
nephr/o
ren/o
kidney
neur/o
nerve
onc/o
tumour (cancerous)
opthalm/o
opt/o
optic/o
eye
oste/o
bone
path/o
disease
psych/o
mind
rhin/o
nas/o
nose
sarc/o
flesh
thromb/o
clotting/clot
-al
-ic
-ior
-ical
pertaining to
-algia
condition of pain
-tomy
process of cutting into
-ectomy
process of cutting out
-emia
blood condition
-ia
-ism
-sis
condition
-osis
abnormal condition
-globin
protein
-gram
record
-itis
inflammation
-logist
Specialist in the study of
-logy
study of
-oma
tumour
-opsy
to view
-penia
deficiency
-poiesis
formation
-scope
instrument to view
-scopy
process of visual examination
-cyte
cell
a-
an-
no,
not
aut-
self
dia-
complete,
through
dys-
abnormal
endo-
en-
within,
in,
inner
exo-
out,
outside
hyper-
excessive
hypo-
sub-
below
peri-
surrounding
pro-
pros-
before,
forward
re-
retro-
back