Combining Forms Flashcards
What is a Prefix?
Location, time, number or status
What is a Root (combining form)?
Usually, not always means body parts
What is Suffix?
Usually not always indicates the procedure, condition ,disorder or disease.
What is an example of Prefix, Root and suffix?
The word Prenatal:
Prenatal: the time and events before birth.
Pre: Before
Na: Birth
Tal: Pertaining to
What is a Combining Form?
A root with a combining vowel added.
The most common combining vowel is “o”
Combining form to link a word root with a suffix:
Cardi/o (heart) + Logy (suffix that means study of) = Cardiology
When the suffix begins with a vowel, you have to drop the combining vowel:
Ot/o (ear) + Algia (suffix that means pain) = Otalgia
A combining form to link two words roots, even when the second word root begins with a vowel:
Gastr/o (stomach) + enter/o (Intestines) + itis (suffix that means inflammation) = Gastroenteritis
What means Angi/o?
Blood Vessel
What means Arteri/o?
Artery
What means Arthr/o?
Joint
What means Blephar/o?
Eyelid
What means Bronch/o?
Bronchus (air passages of lungs)
What means Cardi/o?
Heart
What means Cephal/o?
Head
What means Colon/o or Col/o?
Colon, Large Intestine
What means Colp/o?
Vagina
What means Cyan/o?
Blue
What means Cyst/o?
Bladder
What means Dermat/o?
Skin
What means Encephal/o?
Brain
What means Enter/o?
Small Intestine
What means Erythr/o?
Red
