Chapter 4 (Terminology) Flashcards
carp/o
wrist
cost/o
rib
cutane/o
skin
dactyl/o
fingers, toes
duct/o
lead, carry
flex/o
bend
furc/o
branching
gloss/o
tongue
immun/o
protection
morph/o
shape, form
mort/o
death
nat/i
birth
norm/o
rule, order
-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)
-physis
grow
-plasia
development, formation, growth
-plasm
structure or formation
-pnea
breathing
-ptom
happening, occurrence
-ptosis
falling, dropping, prolapse
-stasis
stopping, controlling
-trophy
development, nourishment
ab-
away from
ad-
toward
ante-
before, forward
anti-
against
bi-
two
brady-
slow
cata-
down
con-
with, together
contra-
against, opposite
de-
down, lack of
dys-
abnormal, bad, difficult, painful
ec-
out, outside
eu-
good, normal
hemi-
half
in-
not
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, fear
per-
through
poly-
many, much
post-
after, behind
pre-
before, in front of
pros-
before, forward
supra-
above, upper
syn-, sym-
together, with
tachy-
fast
ultra-
beyond, excess
uni-
one