Chapter 4 Flashcards
Audi
Hearing
Bio
Life
Caus, caut
Burn
Edem
Swelling
Kin/e
Movement, motion
-esthes
Sensation
Lysis, lys, lytic
Breaking down
Morph/o
Form, structure, shape
Phage
Eat
Phil
Affinity, love
Path, pathy
Disease
Plegia
Paralysis
Stasis
Standing still, stoppage
Poiesis
Formation, production
Troph
Nourishment, food
Brachy
Short
Brady
Slow
Cry/o
Cold
Dolich/o
Long
Glyc/o, gluc/o
Sugar, sweet
Hetero
Other, different
Hom/eo, hom/o
Same, alike
Hydro
Wet, water, fluid
Macro
Large
Iso
Equal, alike
Mal
Ill, bad
Mega
Large, oversized
Necro
Death
Ortho
Straight, normal, correct
Ple/o
More, many
Sten
Narrow, contracted
Therm
Heat
Aqua, hydro
Water
Tachy
Rapid, fast
Chole
Bile
Hema, hemato
Blood
Lymph
Lymph
Galact
Milk
Mucus, muco
Secretion of mucous membranes
Py/o
Pus
Plasma
Fluid portion of blood
Sangui
Bloody
Serum
Clear portion of blood
Adip/o
Fat
Sacchar/o
Sugar
Ur/e, ur/ea
Urine, or urea
Heme
Iron-based, pigment part of hemoglobin
Hormone
Body produced chemical substance
Lip/o, lipid
Fat, fatty acid
Lith
Stone or calculus
Albus, alba, alb
White
Chrom/o
Color
Cirrhos
Orange-yellow
Chlor/o
Green
Cyan
Blue
Leuc/o, leuk/o
White
Erythr/o
Red
Melan
Black
Photo
Light