Chapter 4: Prefixes 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
immun/o
protection
morph/o
shape, form
mort/o
death
nat/i
birth
norm/o
rule, order
ox/o
oxygen
pub/o
pubis (pubic bones); anterior portion of the pelvic or hip bone
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 glands resembled (-oid) a shield to those who named it)
top/o
place, position, location
tox/o
poison
trache/o
windpipe, trachea
urethr/o
urethra
-blast
embryonic, immature
-crine
secrete
-drome
to run
-fusion
coming together; to pour
-gen
substance that produces
-lapse
to slide, fall, sag
-lysis
breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
to measure
-mission
to send
-or
one who
-oxia
oxygen
-partum
birth, labor
-phoria
to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)