Chapter 2 - TERMS PERTAINING TO THE BODY AS A WHOLE Flashcards
abdomin/o
abdomen
adip/o
fat
anter/o
front
cervic/o
neck of body or uterus
chondr/o
cartilage
chrom/o
colour
coccyg/o
coccyx
crani/o
skull
cyt/o
cell
dist/o
far, distant
dors/o
back portion of body
hist/o
tissue
ili/o
ilium
inguin/o
groin
kary/o
nucleus
laryng/o
larynx (voicebox)
later/o
side
lumb/o
lower back
medi/o
middle
nucle/o
nucleus
pelv/i
pelvis
pharyng/o
pharynx
poster/o
back, behind
proxim/o
nearest
sacr/o
sacrum
sarc/o
flesh
spin/o
spine
thel/o, theli/o
nipple
thorac/o
chest
trache/o
trachea, windpipe
umbilic/o
navel, umbilicus
ventr/o
belly side of the body
vertebr/o
vertebrae, backbones
viscer/o
internal organs
ana-
up
cata-
down
epi-
above, upon
hypo-
below
inter-
between
meta-
change
-al
pertaining to
-eal
pertaining to
-ectomy
excision, removal
-iac
pertaining to
-ior
pertaining to
-ism
process, condition
-oma
tumor, mass, swelling
-ose
pertaining to, full of
-plasm
formation
-somes
bodies
-tomy
to cut, incision
-type
picture or classification