Chapter 8 Medical Terminology Sets 4-5 Flashcards
acu/o
sudden, sharp
abdomin/o
abdomen
adip/o
fat tissues
angi/o
vessel containing fluid
axill/o
armpit
carcin/o
cancer of gland tissue
cerebr/o
brain
chem/o
chemical, drug
cis/o
cut
cost/o
rib
electr/o
electrical activity
gynec/o
female
iatr/o
treatment
klept/o
steal
laryng/o
voice box, larynx
mandibul/o
lower jaw
maxill/o
upper jaw
nat/o
birth, born
nect/o
bind
ox/o
oxygen
sarc/o
nongland tissue, flesh
son/o
sound, ultrasound
vit/o
living, alive
auto/o
self
bi/
two
con/
with
contra/
opposite, against
meta/
change, beyond
poly/
many
syn/
together with
sym/
together with
trans/
across
ultra/
beyond, higher than
/blast (noun)
undifferentiated, original
/drome (noun)
run
/fusion (noun)
pour, bond
/genesis (noun)
creating
/malacia (noun)
softening
/mania (also/manic) (noun) (adj)
excessive preoccupation or obsession
/oma (noun)
tumor, mass
/partum (noun)
labor, delivery
/penia (noun)
lack of, decrease, poor
/plasty (noun)
restore by surgery
/stoma (noun)
body opening (to the outside)
/stomy (noun)
surgically created body opening
/therapy (noun)
treatment
/tome (noun)
cutting instrument
/tomy (noun)
cut into or slice
/trophy (noun)
growth, development by size or nourishment
/trophic (adj)
relating to growth, development
bronch/o
airway tubes in lung
cephal/o
head
cervic/o
neck
chondr/o
cartilage
crin/o
to separate from blood, secrete
cutane/o
skin surface
dactyl/o
digits, fingers, toes
eosin/o
rose-colored
erythr/o
red
furc/o
branch, fork
gnos/o
knowledge, understanding
lapar/o
abdomen
lymph/o
watery fluid
morph/o
form, structure
mort/o
death
necr/o
dead
nephr/o
kidney
ophthalm/o
eye
ot/o
ear
phag/o, /phage
eat, swallow, engulf
phob/o
fear
physi/o
nature, natural
plasm/o
development, growth
pneum/o
air, gas, lung air sacs
psych/o
mind
radi/o
rays or waves, x-ray, radius, forearm
rect/o
upright, rectum
rhin/o
nose
seps/o, sept/i
infection, bacteria
thyr/o
shield, thyroid
tom/o
cut, slice or a hole
tonsill/o
tonsils
top/o
location
tox/o
poison, damaging
trache/o
windpipe
vertebr/o
back bones
ana/
positive, up
ante/
before
dys/
bad, labored
eu/
normal, even, good
mal/
bad, abnormal
meso/
middle
pro/
before
pseudo/
false
semi/
half
supra/ (also super/)
above, superior to
/cele (noun)
protruding sac, hernia
/crine (adj)
secrete
/cyesis (noun)
pregnancy
/dynia (noun)
pain
/lysis, /lytic (noun) (adj)
break down or apart, dissolve
/prexy (noun)
affix, attach into place
/phobia (noun)
fear
/phoria (noun)
bear
/physis (noun)
grow
/plasia (noun)
growth, development
/pnea (noun)
breathing
/poiesis (noun)
formation
/ptosis (noun)
drooped, slipped down
/rrhea (noun)
flow
/sclerosis, /sclerotic (noun) (adj)
hardening
