Final Exam Review Flashcards
cyan/o
blue
derm/o
skin
trich/o
hair
gastr/o
stomach
ailment/o
nourishment, nutrition
or/o
mouth
hydr/o
water, watery fluid
nephr/o
kidney
ather/o
fatty, fatty deposit
cardi/o
heart
coron/o
encircling, crown
scler/o
hard
erythr/o
red
leuk/o
white
thromb/o
blood clot
ausculat/o
listening
cost/o
rib
pulmon/o
lung
spir/o
breathe
orch/o
testis, testicle
prostat/o
prostate
fet/o
fetus
lact/o
milk
gravid/o
pregnancy
neur/o
nerve
spin/o
spine
anxi/o
fear, worry
dipl/o
double, two
ocul/o
eye
arthr/o
joint
oste/o
bone
my/o
muscle
gluc/o
glucose, sugar
chem/o
chemical, drug treatment
onc/o
tumor, cancer
epi-
on, following
para-
beside
sub-
below, beneath
hyper-
above normal, excessive
retro-
backwards
poly-
many, much
dys-
painful, difficult, abnormal
brady-
slow
inter-
between
intra-
within
tachy-
rapid, fast
auto-
self, same
eu-
good, normal
crypt-
hidden
nulli-
none
de-
away from, cessation, without
meta-
after, beyond, change
-itis
inflammation
-malacia
softening
-plasia
formation, growth
-algia
pain
-megaly
large, enlargement
-cele
herniation, protrusion
-graphy
a writing, description
-ptosis
prolapse, drooping, sagging
-stenosis
stricture, narrowing
-gram
record, recording
-lytic
pertaining to destruction, breakdown, separation
-ium
tissue, structure
-emia
blood (condition of)
-osis
abnormal condition
-penia
deficiency
-phonia
condition of the voice
-spasm
involuntary movement
-ism
condition of
-pathy
disease
-arche
beginning
-partum
childbirth, labor
-ictal
relating to or caused by a stroke or seizure
-phrenia
the mind
-phobia
abnormal fear of, aversion to, sensitivity to
-opia
vision
-asthenia
weakness
-clasia
to break
-physis
growth
-osis
abnormal condition
-oma
tumor