Combing Forms/Meaning Flashcards
crin/o
To secrete
cardi/o
Heart
Dermat/o
Skin
Esthesi/o
Feeling or sensation
Gastr/o
Enter/o
Stomach
Sometimes specifically intestine
Ger/a
Ger/o
Geront/o
Elderly
Gynec/o
Female
Immun/o
Immune
Ne/o
Nat/o
New
Birth
Neur/o
Nerve
Obstetr/o
Midwife
Onc/o
Tumor
Ophthalm/o
Eye
Orth/o
Ped/o
Straight
Child
Ot/o
Laryng/o
Eat
Larynx
Path/o
Disease
Ped/o
Child
Sometimes means foot
Psych/o
Mind
Radi/o
Radiation
Rhuemat/o
Rheumatism
Joints and connective tissue
Rhin/o
Nose
Ur/o
Urinary tract
Urine
Aden/o
Gland
Angi/o
Vessel
Append/o
Appendic/o
Appendix
Bi/o
Life or living
Blephar/o
Eyelid
Cerebr/o
Encephal/o
Brain
Chir/o
Hand
Col/o
Colon or large intestine
Cutane/o
Derm/a
Dermat/o
Skin
Faci/o
Face
Hepat/o
Liver
Mamm/o
Mast/o
Breast
Muscul/o
My/o
Muscle
Myel/o
Bone marrow
Spinal cord
Oste/o
Bone
Pulm/o
Pulmon/o
Pneum/o
Pneumon/o
Lungs
Tonsill/o
Tonsil
Trache/o
Trachea
Vas/o
Vessel; vas deferens
Amyl/o
Starch
Glyc/o
Sugar
Hermat/o
Blood
Lact/o
Milk
Lip/o
Fat
Lith/o
Stone
Micro-
Small
Muc/o
Mucus
Prote/o
Protein/o
Protein
Pyr/o
Fire