Combining Form Flashcards
Chapter 4
Carp/o
Wrist bones
Cis/o
Cut
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 (public bone)
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
Poision
Trache/o
Wind pipe. Trachea
Urethr/o
Urethra
-Crine
Secrete
-Drome
Run
-Fusion
Coming together; to pour
-Gen
Substance that produces
-lapse
Slide, fall, sag
-lysis
Destruction, breakdown separation
-meter
Measure
-misson
Send
-or
One who
-oxia
Oxygen
-partum
Birth, labor
-phoria
Bear, carry; feeling
-Physis
Grow
-plasia
Development, formation, growth
- plasm
Structure or formation
-pnea
Breathing
-ptom
Happening, occurence
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, togethet
Contra-
Against, opposite
De-
Down, lack of
Dia-
Through, complete
Dys-
Abnormal, bad, difficult, painful
Ec-
Out, outside
Endo-
In, within
Epi-
Upon, on, above
Eu
Good, normal
Ex-
Out, outside
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-
Around
Poly-
Many, much
Post
After, behind
Pre-
Before, in front of
Pro-
Before, forward
Pros-
Before, forward
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