chapter 4 Flashcards
carp/o
wrist bones
cis/o
to cut
cost/o
rib
cutane/o
skin
dactyl/o
fingers, toes
duct/o
to lead, carry
flex/o
to bend
gloss/o
tongue
glyc/o
sugar
mort/o
death
nat/i
birth
norm/o
rule, order
ox/o
oxygen
pub/o
pubis (pubic bone);
anterior portion of
the pelvic or hipbone
seps/o
infection
somn/o
sleep
son/o
sound
the/o
to put, place
thel/o, theli/o
nipple
thyr/o
thyroid gland; shield (the shape of the thyroid gland resembled [-oid] a shield to those who named it)
top/o
place, position, location
tox/o
poison
urethr/o
urethra
-blast
embryonic, immature
-crine
to secrete
-drome
to run
-gen
substance that produces
-lapse
to slide, fall, sag
-lysis
breakdown, destruction,
separation
-meter
to measure
-mission
to send
-oxia
oxygen
-partum
birth, labor
-phoria
to bear, carry; feeling
mental state
-physis
to grow
-plasia
development, formation, growth
-plasm
structure or formation
-pnea
breathing
-stasis
stopping, controlling
-trophy
development, nourishment
ana-
up, apart
brady-
slow
con-
with, together
dia-
through,
complete
dys-
bad, painful,
difficult,
abnormal
ec-
out, outside
endo-
in, within
eu-
good, normal
meta-
beyond, change
para-
abnormal, beside,
near
per-
through
pro-
before, forward
pros-
before, forward
syn-, sym-
together, with
tachy-
fast
