Endocrine Flashcards
glandul/o
glandule, gland
aden/o
gland
crin/o, -crine
to secrete
apic/o
tip, summit, end
hol/o
whole, entire
mer/o
partial, part
pine/o, pineal/o
pineal gland, pine cone
thyr/o, thyroid/o
thyroid gland
parathyroid/o
parathyroid gland
pitui/o, pituitar/o
pituitary gland, hypophysis
hypophys/o
hypophysis, pituitary gland
pancreat/o
pancreas
thym/o
thymus gland
ovari/o
ovary
oophor/o
ovary
test/o, testicul/o
testicle, testis, witness
orch/o, orchid/o
testicle; orchid (flower)
gonad/o
testicle or ovary
adren/o
adrenal gland, suprarenal gland
supraren/o
suprarenal gland, adrenal gland
cortic/o
cortex, outer surface, bark
medull/o
medulla, marrow
hormon/o
hormone
-in, -ine
hormone or chemical substance
trop/o
hormone that stimulates something; a turn, turning, change
troph/o
growth, nourishment
ag/o, agog/o, -agogue
hormone that promotes something; leading forth, duct
gest/o, -gest, ger/o, -ger
hormone that helps with bearing (progestin); to carry, produce, bear
poiet/o, -poiesis
hormone that stimulates the production/making of something (-poietin); to make or produce
stat/o
hormone that inhibits/stops something (-statin); to stand or stop
gen/o, -gen
hormone that produces something, become, produced, born
kin/o, cin/o, -kinesis, -cinesis
hormone or chemical that stimulates activity, movement (-kinin), action
gynec/o, gyn/o
female, woman, pistil of a flower
andr/o
male, man, stamen of a flower
liber/o
hormone or chemical that releases another hormone (-liberin), to free
estr/o
estrogen, estrus cycle (breeding period), sexual desire
insul/o
insulin, island
gluc/o, glyc/o
sugar, glucose
ton/o
hormone that produces a healthy strength or tension (-tonin) of something; tension, stretching, tone (in muscles)
toc/o, tok/o
labor, partuition
gigant/o
giant, large
meg/o, megal/o, -megaly
large, enlargement
nan/o, nann/o
dwarf, very small, one billionth
cretin/o
cretinism
mel/o
limb
melit/o, mel/o
honey, sugar, bees
ur/o, -uria
urine
orex/i, -orexia
appetite
dips/o
thirst
hirsut/o
hairy
myx/o
mucus, slime
priv/o, -privia
deprived of
hormonum, -i (n.)
hormone
insula, -ae (f.)
islet
infundibulum, -i (n.)
infundibulum
lobus, -i (m.)
lobe
lobulus, -i (m.)
lobule
isthmus, -i (m.)
isthmus
stroma, stromatis (pl. stomata) (n.)
stroma; something spread over, cover; framework of connective tissue
parenchyma, parenchymatis (n.)
parenchyma (something poured in beside; substance in lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen)
endocrinus, -a, -um
endocrine
