Medical Terminology Chapter 14 Flashcards
aer/o
air
bucc/o
cheek
chem/o
drug
hal/o
to breathe
idi/o
distinctive
lingu/o
tongue
or/o
mouth
thec/o
sheath (meninges)
amnes/o
forgetfulness
anxi/o
fear, worry
compuls/o
drive, compel
delus/o
false belief
depress/o
to press down
hallucin/o
imagined perception
klept/o
to steal
narc/o
stupor, sleep
obsess/o
besieged by thoughts
ped/o
child
pharmac/o
drug
phob/o
irrational fear
phren/o
mind
psych/o
mind
pyr/o
fire
schiz/o
split
soci/o
society
somat/o
body
somn/o
sleep
vers/o
to turn
-lepsy
seizure
-orexia
appetite
-mania
frenzy
-philic
pertaining to being attracted to
-phoria
condition to bear
-therapy
treatment
psychology
study of human behavior and thought processes
psychiatry
branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental disorders
cry/o
cold
cutane/o
skin
electr/o
electricity
erg/o
work
habilitat/o
ability
phon/o
sound
physic/o
body
prosthet/o
addition
therm/o
heat
-nomics
pertaining to laws
-phoresis
carrying
aspir/o
to breathe in
dilat/o
widen
esthesi/o
sensation, feeling
recumb/o
to lie back
sect/o
to cut
specul/o
to look at
tenacul/o
to hold
oncology
branch of medicine dealing with tumors
capusul/o
to box
carcin/o
cancerous
miss/o
to send back
morbid/o
ill
mort/o
death
onc/o
tumor