Chapter 4 Prefixes - Terminology Flashcards
Carp/o
Wrist bones
Cis/o
To 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
Sugar
Immun/o
Protection
Morph/o
Shape, form
Mort/o
Death
Nat/i
Birth
Norm/o
Rule, order
Ox/o
Oxygen
Pub/o
Pubis
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
Top/o
Place, position, location
Tox/o
Poison
Trache/o
Windpipe, trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-crine
To secrete
-drome
Run
-fusion
Coming together; to pour
-gen
Substance that produces
-lapse
Slide, fall, sag
-lysis
Breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
Measure
-mission
Send
-or
One who
-oxia
Oxygen
-partum
Birth, labor
-phoria
Bear, carry; feeling (mental state)