More Roots/ Prefixes/ Suffixes S Flashcards
Sacchar/o
Sugar/sweet
Saccul/o
Saccule of inner ear
Sacr/o
Sacrum (wedge shaped vertebra at the lower end of the spine)
Sanguin/o
Blood/bloody
Sapr/o
Decay/decayed matter
Sarc/o
Flesh/connective tissue
Scat/o
Faeces/faecal matter
-schisis
Schist/o
Cleaving/splitting/parting
Schistosom/o
Parasitic worm of Genus Schistosoma
Scint/i
Scintillation/spark/flash of light
Scirrh/o
Hard
Scot/o
Darkness/scotoma (partial alteration in vision)
Scotom/o
Blind spot/scotoma
Seb/o
Sebum/sebaceous gland
-sepsis
Infection
Septic/o
Sepsis/infection/putrefaction
Sequestr-
Sequestrum, a portion of dead bone
Sialaden/o
Salivary glands
Sider/o
Iron
-sitia
Condition of appetite for food
Sit/o
Food
Somatic/o
Somat/o
Body
Somn/i/o
Sleep
Son/o
Ultrasound
-spadia(s)
Condition of drawing out/cleft or rent of the male urethra
Span/o
Scanty or scarce
Sphen/o
Sphenoid bone/wedge shaped
Sphygm/o
Pulse
-sphyx-
Pulsing
Spir/o
To breathe
Squam/o
Scale/scale like
-stalsis
Contraction
Stapedi/o
Stirrup/stapes
Staphyl/o
A grape like cluster/the uvula (teardrop shaped piece of soft tissue that hangs down your throat)
-stat
Agent or device that changes, regulates or stops something
Sterc/o
Faeces
Ster/e/o
Solid/three-dimensional
Steth/o
Chest/breast
-sthenia
Condition of strength/full power
Striat/o
Mark/stripe
Styl/o
Stake/styloid process (of temporal bone)
Sub-
Beneath/under
Sud/or/i
Sweat/perspiration
Syndesm/o
Ligament/connective tissue
Syndrom/o
Running together
-synechia
Condition of synechia/adhering together
Syring/o
Tube/cavity