Chapter 3 Flashcards
acr/o
height, extreminities
acu/o
sharp, severe, sudden
amni/o
amnion
angi/o
vessel
anteri/o
artery
axill/o
axillo, armpit
blephar/o
eyelid
bronch/o
bronchial tube
chem/o
drug, chemical
chron/o
time
col/o
colon
hydr/o
fluid, water
isch/o
to hold back
lapar/o
abdomen, abdominal
lymph/o
lymph
mamm/o
breast
mast/o
breast
morph/o
shape
muc/o
mucus
my/o
muscle
myel/o
spinal cord
necr/o
death (cells, body)
neutr/o
neutrophil (white blood cells)
ot/o
ear
peritone/o
peritoneum
phag/o
to eat, swallow
phleb/o
vein
plas/o
formation, development
pleu/ro
pleura
pneumon/o
lung, air
pulmon/o
lung
rect/o
rectum
splen/o
spleen
staphyl/o
clusters
strept/o
twisted chains
tonsill/o
tonsil
ven/o
vein
-cele
hernia
-centesis
surgical puncture to aspirate fluid
-coccus
round, berry-shaped bacteria
-dynia
pain
-genesis
condition of producing, forming
-graph
instrument for recording
-graphy
process of recording
-lysis
breakdown, destruction, separation
-malacia
softening
-megaly
enlargement
-penia
deficiency
-phobia
fear
-plasia
development, formation, growth
-plasty
surgical repair
-pstosis
drooping, falling, prolapse
-rrhea
flow, discharge
-sclerosis
hardening
-stasis
stopping, controlling
-stomy
opening to form a mouth
-theraphy
treatment
-throphy
development, nourishment
-er
one who
-ia
condition
-ole
small, little
-ule
small, little
-um, -ium
structure, tissue
-us
structure, substance
-y
condition, process
-ar
pertaining to
-oid
resembling
-ous
pertaining to
-tic
pertaining to