Chapter 1: Learning Terminology, Word Roots, and Combining Forms Flashcards
aer/o
air, gas
ather/o
plaque, fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel)
blast/o
immature cells
calc/o, calci/o
calcium
chondrio, chondro
cartilage, grainy, gritty
chyl/o
chyle, a digestive juice
chym/o
chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach
cyst/o, cysti
bladder, cyst, cystic duct
cyt/o
cell
ethm/o
ethmoid bone
gli/o
glue
gluc/o
glucose
glyc/o
sugars
hydr/o
hydrogen, water
ket/o, keton/o
ketone, acetone
lip/o
fat (outside of a blood vessel)
nucle/o
nucleus
plasma, plasmo
formative, plasma
salping/o
tube
sider/o
iron
somat/o
body
squam/o
scale, squamous (meaning scaly)
syring/o
tube
algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o
pain
cry/o
cold
dips/o
thirst
esthesi/o
sensation, perception
kin/o, kine
motion
phon/o
sound, voice, speech
phot/o
light
son/o
sound
therm/o
heat
acanth/o
spiny, thorny
andr/o
masculine
chlor/o
chlorine, green
chrom/o, chromat/o
color
crypt/o
hidden, obscure
cyan/o
blue
eosin/o
red
erythr/o
red, redness
granul/o
granular
gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o
women
home/o, hom/o
same, constant
ichthy/o
dry, scaly, fishy
idi/o
distinct, unknown
immun/o
safe, immune
leuk/o
white
macr/o
large, long
meg/a, megal/o
large, million
melan/o
black, dark
micr/o
small, tiny
mio
smaller, less
morph/o
structure, shape
norm/o
normal
physi/o
physical, natural
pseud/o
false
scler/o
hardness, hardening
scoli/o
crooked, bent
spher/o
round, spherical
staphyl/o
grapelike clusters
sten/o
narrowness
strept/o
twisted chains, streptococci
terat/o
monster (as a malformed fetus)
xanth/o
yellow
bacill/o
bacilli, bateria
bacteri/o
bacteria
carcin/o
cancer
kypth/o
humpback
onch/o, onc/o
tumor
path/o
disease
pyr/o
fever, fire, heat
schist/o
split
schiz/o
split, division
spasm/o
spasm
anteri/o
front
dextr/o
right, towards the right
dors/o
back
goni/o
angle
later/o
lateral, to one side
medi/o
middle, medial plane
mes/o
middle, median
orth/o
straight, normal
top/o
place, topical
crin/o
secrete
gen/o
producing, being born
hypn/o
sleep
log/o
speech, words, thought
narc/o
sleep, numbness
phag/o
eating, devouring, swallowing
somn/o, somni
sleep
spir/o
breath, breathe
actin/o
light
amyl/o
starch
bar/o
weight, pressure
bas/o, basi/o
base
bio
life
chem/o
chemical
chrono
time
coni/o
dust
cycl/o
circle, cycle
dyna, dynam/o
force, energy
echo
reflected sound
electr/o
electricity
eti/o
cause
fibr/o
fiber
fluor/o
light, luminous, fluorine
fungi
fungus
galact/o
milk
ger/o, geront/o
old age
lact/o, lacti
milk
lith/o
stone
lys/o
dissolution, destruction
necr/o
death, dying
noct/i, nyct/i
night
pharmaco
drugs, medicine
phyt/o
plant
py/o
pus
radio
radiation, x-ray, radius
stere/o
three-dimensional
tel/o, tele/o
distant, end, complete
ton/o
tension, pressure
toxi, toxic/o, tox/o
poison, toxin
troph/o
food, nutrition
a
before
ac
before meals
AMI
acute myocardial infarction
bid
twice a day
BP
blood pressure
c/o
complaining of
Ca
cancer/carcinoma
CC
chief complaint
COPD
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema, chronic bronchitis)
CXR
chest x-ray
DOB
date of birth
Dx
diagnosis
ECG, EKG
electrocardiogram
Fx
fracture
GI
gastrointestinal
h/o
history of
HEENT
head, ears, eyes, nose, throat
HTN
hypertension
Hx
history
IM
intramuscular
LAC
laceration
LOC
level of consciousness
mcg
microgram
NKDA
no known drug allergies
npo
nothing by mouth
po
by mouth
PRN
as needed
qid
four times a day
SOB
shortness of breath
tid
three times a day
Tx
treatment
w/o
without
WNL
within normal limits