Chapter 2 Flashcards
aden/o
gland
cyt/o
cell
epitheli/o
epithelium
fibr/o
fiber
hist/o
tissue
kary/o
nucleus
lip/o
fat
my/o
muscle
neur/o
nerve
organ/o
organ
sarc/o
flesh,connective tissue
system/o
system
viscer/o
internal organs
cancer/o (carcin/o)
cancer (disease characterized by unregulated abnormal growth of new cells)
eti/o
cause (of disease)
gno/o
knowledge
iatr/o
physician,medicine
lei/o
smooth
onc/o
tumor,mass
path/o
disease
rhabd/o
rod-shaped,striated
somat/o
body
chlor/o
green
chrom/o
color
cyan/o
blue
erythr/o
red
leuk/o
white
melan/o
black
xanth/o
yellow
dia-
through,complete
dys-
painful,abnormal,difficult,labored
hyper-
above,excessive
hypo-
below,incomplete,deficient,under
meta-
after,beyond,change
neo-
new
pro-
before
-al, -ic, -ous
pertaining to
-cyte
cell
-gen
substance or agent that produces or causes
-genic
producing,originating,causing
-logist
one who studies and treats
-logy
study of
-megaly
englargement
-oid
resembling
-oma
tumor,swelling
-osis
abnormal condition
-pathy
diseas
-plasia
condition of formation,development,growth
-plasm
growth,substance,formation
-sarcoma
malignant tumor
-sis
state of
-stasis
control,stop,standing
adenocarcinoma
cancerous tumor of glandular tissue