Combining Forms Flashcards by Sam A

Tongue

Gloss

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Pain

Algia

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Enlargement

Megalia

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Vein

phleb

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Dilation/expansion

Ectasia

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Vertebra

Spondyl

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Softening or loss of consistency in an organ or tissue

Malacia

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Tonsil

Tonsill

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Excision/ removal

Ectomia

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Water/watery

hydr

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Morbid dread or fear

Phobia

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Treatment

Therapia

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Plant/ herb

Phyt

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Female

Gynaec/ gyn

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Science

Logia

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Uterine tube

Salping

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Eyelid

Blephar

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Suture

Rrhaphia

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Jaw

Gnath/ gnathia

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Backward or behind

Retro

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Gingiva/ gum

Gingiv- ul

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Incision

Tomia

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Gland

Aden

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Disease

Pathia

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The Brest, the mastoid

Mast

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Life

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Examination

Opsia

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Muscle

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Weakness/ debility

Asthenia

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Lack of tone or tension

Atonia

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Lack of nourishment

Atrophia

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Nerve

Neur

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Eye

Ophthalm, ophthalmia

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Stroke/ paralysis

Plegia

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Finger

Dactyl/ dactylia

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Examination

Scopia

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Many

Poly

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Together or with

Syn

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Nose

Rhin

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Plastic surgery

Plastica

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Uterus

Metr/ hyster

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Ovary

Oophor

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Navel/ belly button/ umbilicus

Omphal

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Stomach

Gastr

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Cerebrum

Encephal

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Brain

Encephalia

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Palate

Uran/ palat

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Intestine

Enter/ enteria

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Painful/ difficult or faulty

Dys

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Ligament

(Syn)desm

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White

Leuk

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Red

Erythr

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Cell

Cyt- Cytus

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Deficiency

Penia

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Something written down/ count

Gramma

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Black

Melan

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Urine

Ur- Uria

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Tissue

Hist

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Yellow

Xanth

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Vision

Opsia

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Colouring

Chromia

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A male human being

Andr

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Pain

Alg- algia

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Head

Cephal

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Lung: air

Pneumon/ pneum/ pneumat

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Kidney

Nephar

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Fixation, usually surgical

Pexia

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Inflammation

Itits

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Incision

Tomia

A human being

Anthrop

Heat

Therm/ thermia

Deficient/ below normal

Hypo

Therapy/ treatment

Therapia

Blood

Haem/ haemat/ aemia

Affinity for/ craving for

Philia

Mouth

Stomat

Pus/ accumulation of pus

Stream/ current/ flow

Rrhoea

Spleen

Splen

Cartilage

Chondr

A tumour or neoplasm

Oma

Wound/ injury/ trauma

Traumat

Body

Somat

Blood or lymph vessel

Angi

A writing/ a description/ a radiological image

Graphia

A joint/ an articulation

Arthr

Liver

Hepat

Foot

Pod

Pain

Odynia

A Sinking down or prolapse of an organ

Ptosis

Vagina

Colp

The internal organs

Splanchn(o)

Cirrhosis

Inspiration of nervous and other structures

Sclerosis

Bladder

Cyst

Bile

Chole

A stone/ calculus/ calcification

Lithiasis/ lith/ lithus

Any disease caused by a fungus

Mycosis

Puncture

Centesis

The abdomen/ the loins

Lapar

Paralysis/ stroke

Plegia

Relating to memory

Mnesis/ mnesia

The faculty of perceiving and recognising: knowledge

Gnosis/ gnosia

A stricture/ a narrowing

Stenosis

Slowing/ stoppage/ stagnation of blood or other fluids: arrest of bleeding

Stasis

Rupture

Rrhexis

An origin/ a beginning process

Genesis

Organ

Death

Thanasia, thanat

Good/ well

Tooth

Odont/ odontia

Correct or right

Orth(o)

Lens

Phak/ phakia

Bone

Ost(e)

Nail

Onych

Fungus disease

Mycosis

Loosening

Lysis

Eating/ devouring

Phagia

Mind/ intellect

Phren, phrenia

Split/ cleft/ division

Schizo

Ear

Heart

Cardia

Rapid

Tachy

Slow

Brady

Month

Men

Feeling of sense

Aesthesia

Hearing

Acus, acusis

Sense of taste

Geusia

Sense of smell

Osmia

Condition of vision

Blepsia

Appetite

Orexia

Hand

Ch(e)ir, ch(e)iria

Knee

Gon

Horny tissue, the cornea

Kerat

Plastic surgery

Plastica

Vomiting

Emesis

Sinking, falling down

Ptosis

The internal organs

Splanchn(o)

Cold

Cry(o)

Loss of sensation

Anaesthesia

Abnormal sensitivity( to touch, pain or other sensory stimuli)

Hyperaesthesia

Deafness

Anacuis=surditas

Lack of sense of taste

Ageusia

Lack of sense of smell

Anosmia

Shortsightedness

Myopia

Longsightedness

Hypermetropia

Blindness

Ablepsia

Lack of appetite

Anorexia

Surgery

Chirurgia

Inflammation of the knee joint

Gonarthritis

Thickening of the horny tissue of the epidermis

Hyperkeratosis

Implantation of a cornea

Keratoplastica

Inflammation of the cornea

Keratitis

Excessive vomiting

Hyperemesis

Sinking of the internal organs

Splanchnoptosis

Pain caused by cold

Cryalgesia

Sensitiveness to cold

Cryaesthesia

Inability to perceive cold

Cryanaesthesia

Use of cold in the treatment of diseases

Cryotherapia

Eye

Ophthalmos

Kidney

Nephros

Cartilage

Chondros

Penis

Phallos

Vagina

Colpos

Marrow, bone marrow

Myelos

Stone, calculus

Lithos

Navel, umbilicus

Omphalos

Fat, fatty tissue

Lipos

Breast

Mastos

Faeces

Copros

Rectum

Proctos