Chapter 4 Combining Forms/suffixes/prefix Flashcards
Carp/o
Wrist bones
Cis/o
Cut
Cost/o
Rib
Cutane/o
Skin
Dactyl/o
Fingers, toes
Duct/o
Lead, carry
Flex/o
Bend
Furc/o
Branching
Gloss/o
Tongue
GLYC/o
Super
Immun/o
Protection
Morph/o
Shape/form
Mort/o
Death
Nat/I
Birth
Norm/o
Rule, order
Ox/o
Oxygen
Pub/o
Pubis, pubic bone, anterior portion of the pelvic or hip bone
Seps/o
Infection
Somn/o
Sleep
Son/o
Sound
Tens/o
Force, strain, stretch
The/o
Put, place
Thel/o
Theli/o
Nipple
Thyr/o
Thyroid gland; shield
Top/o
Please, position, location
Tox/o
Poison
Trache/o
Wind pipe, trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-crine
Secrete
-drome
Run
-fusion
Coming together, to pour
-gea
Substance that produces
-lapse
Slide, fall, sag
-lysis
Breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
Measure
-mission
Send
-or
One who
-oxia
Oxygen
-partum
Birth labor
-phoria
To bear carry feeling
-physis
To grow
-plasia
Development formation growth
-plasm
Structure or formation
-Pnea
Breathing
-ptosis
Falling dropping prolapse
-rrhea
Flow, discharge
-stasis
Stopping, controlling
-trophy
Development, nourishment
-ptom
Happening occurrence
-blast
Embryonic, immature
A-,an-
No not without
Ab-
Away from
Ad-
Toward
Ana-
Up apart
Ante-
Before forward
Anti-
Against
Auto-
Self,own
Bi-
Two, life
Brady-
Slow
Cata-
Dial
Con-
With together
Contra-
Against, opposite
De-
Down, lack of
Dia-
Through complete
Dys-
Bad painful difficult abnormal
Ec-
Out outside
Endo-
In within
Epi-
Upon on above
Eu-
Good normal
Ex-
Out outside
Hemi-
Half
Hyper-
Excessive above
Hypo-
Deficient under
In-
Not
In-
Into within
Infra-
Beneath under
Inter-
Between
Intra-
In within into
Macro-
Large
Mal-
Bad
Meta-
Beyond change
Micro-
Small
Neo-
New
Pan-
All
Para-
Abnormal beside near
Per-
Through
Peri-
Surrounding
Poly-
Many, much
Post-
After behind
Pre-
Before in front of
Pro-
Before forward
Pros-
Before forward
Re-
Back again
Retro-
Behind backward
Sub-
Under
Supra-
Above upper
Syn-
Sym-
Together with
Tachy-
Fast
Trans-
Across through
Ultra-
Beyond excess
Uni-
One
Antigen
A substance usually foreign to the body that stimulates the production of antibodies
Antibodies
Protein substances made by white blood cells in response to the presence of foreign antigens
Dyspnea
Painful breathing
Adductor
A muscle that draws a limb toward the body
Rh condition
In antigen antibody condition that develops when there is a difference in rH blood factor between that of the pregnant mother RH negative and the and that of the fetus RH positive
Leukocytes
Type of cell where antibodies are made
Congenital anomaly
And irregularity in a structure or organ that an infant is born with
Recombinant DNA
Taking a gene from one organism and inserting it into the DNA of another organism
Syndrome
A group of signs or symptoms that commonly occur together and indicate a particular disease or abnormal condition