Nervous System Flashcards
anxi/o
anxious
cephal/o
head
crani/o
skull
gli/o
glue
lex/o
word
neur/o
nerve
phas/o
speech
psych/o
mind
schiz/o
split
somat/o
body
contus/o
bruise
encephal/o
brain
hypn/o
sleep
mening/o
meninges
hem/o
blood
phren/o
mind
radicul/o
nerve root
pont/o
pons
tax/o
coordination
troph/o
development; nourishment
bi-
two; both
en-
in; within
hemi-
half
mono-
one; single
quadri-
four
a-, an-
without, not
epi-
on; around
-algesia
pain; sensitivity
-cele
hernia; swelling; protrusion
-emic
pertaining to blood condition
-esthesia
feeling; sensation
-leptic
to seize; take hold of
-lepsy
seizure
-osis
abnormal condition
-rrhaphy
suture
-phasia
speech
-plegia
paralysis
-taxia
muscle coordination
-orexia
pertaining to appetite
-perisis
weakness
-sclerosis
hardening; thickening
-rrhagic
pertaining to bursting forth (blood)
-itis
inflammation
isch/o
back; to hold back
narc/o
numbness; sleep; stupor
syncop/o
to cut off; cut short; faint
af-
toward; near