Chapter Four Flashcards
Cib/o
Meals
Cis/o
To cut
Cost/o
Rib
Cutane/o
Skin
Dactyl/o
Fingers, toes
Duct/o
To lead, carry
Flex/o
To bend
Furc/o
Forking, branching
Gloss/o
Tongue
Glyc/o
Sugar
Immun/o
Protection
Morph/o
Shape, form
Mort/o
Death
Nat/i
Birth
Nect/o
To bind, tie, connect
Norm/o
Rule, order
Ox/o
Oxygen
Pub/o
Pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
Seps/o
Infection
Somn/o
Sleep
Son/o
Sound
The/o
To put, place
Thel/o
Nipple
Thyr/o
Thyroid gland; shield
Top/o
Place, position, location
Trache/o
Windpipe, trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-blast
Embryonic, immature
-crine
To secrete
-cyesis
Pregnancy
-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
-partum
Birth, labor
-phoria
To bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
-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
A-, an-
No, not, without
Ab-
Away from
Ad-
Toward
Ana-
Up, apart
Ante-
Before, forward
Anti-
Against
Auto-
Self, own
Bi-
Two
Brady-
Slow
Cata-
Down
Con-
With, together
Contra-
Against, opposite
De-
Down, lack of
Dia-
Through, complete
Dys-
Bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
Ec-, ecto-
Out, outside
En-, endo-
In, within
Epi-
Upon, on, above
Eu-
Good, normal
Ex-
Out, outside, away from
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
Pseudo-
False
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
Carp/o
Wrist bones