Prefixes: Chapter Four Flashcards
An/o
Anus (opening of the digestive tract to the outside of the body)
Carp/o
Carpals (wrists bones)
Cis/o
To cut
Cost/o
Ribs
Cutane/o
Skin
Dur/o
Dura mater
Gen/o
To produce, to begin
Nati/o
Birth
Norm/o
Rule,order
Plas/o
Formation, growth, development
Scapul/o
Scapula (shoulder blade)
Son/o
Sound
Top/o
To put, place, position
Troph/o
Development,nourishment
Ven/o
Vein
-action
Process, condition
-crine
Secretion
Endo/crine glands
-dipsia
Thirst
-gen
To produce
-ine
Pertaining to
-lapse
To fall, slide
-mission
To send
-meter
To measure
-mortem
Death
-ous
Pertaining to
-partum
Birth
-phagia
Eating
-phasia
Speech
-plasia
Formation (condition)
-plasma
Formation (tissue)
-plegia
Paralysis
-pnea
Breathing
-section
To cut
-stasis
To stand, place, stop, control
-tension
Pressure
-thesis
To put, place (state of putting or placing)
-tic
Pertaining to
-um
Structure
A-,an-
No, not, without
A/trophy
Without development
Ab-
Away from
Ab/normal
Ad-
Toward, near
Ad/renal glands
ANEMIAS: bone marrow fails to produce red blood cells, white blood cells, and clotting cells
Aplastic anemia
-lytic
Red blood cells are destroyed
ANEMIAS: red blood cells are destroyed and bone marrow cannot compensate for their loss
Hemolytic anemia
ANEMIAS: low iron levels lead to low hemoglobin concentration or deficiency of red blood cells
Iron deficiency anemia
The mucous membrane of the stomach fails to produce a substance that is necessary for the absorption of B12 and the proper formation of red blood cells
Pernicious anemia
ANEMIAS: Red blood cells assume an abnormal crescent or sickle shape: this “sickling” is due to the inheritance of an abnormal type of hemoglobin
Sickle cell anemia
Ana-
Up, apart
Ana/lysis
Ante-
Before, forward
Ante/partum
Anti-
Against
Anti/gen
Anti/biotic
Bi-
Two, both
Brady-
Slow
Brady/cardia
Con-
With, together
Con/genital = irregularity at birth (webbed fingers)
Ec-
Outside, out
Ec/topic pregnancy
ENDO-
Within, in, inner
ENDO/crine glands
Visual examination of the sigmoid colon (lower, S shape part of the large intestine)
Sigmoidoscopy
EPI-
Above, upon
Ex-
Out
Extra-
Outside of
Extra/hepat/ic
Hemi-
Half
Hemi/gastr/ECTOMY
In-
In, into
Incision
Inter-
Between
Intra-
Within
Intravenous
Mal-
Bad
Malpractice
Mal/lignant
Meta-
Beyond, change
“Change of place”
Neo-
New
Neonatal
-IGN
Fire
“Spreads like wildfire”
BEN-
Good
Benign
Para-
Beside, near, along the side of
Poly-
Many,Much
Poly/uria
Post-
After, behind
Pre-
Before
Pre/cancerous
Benign growth commonly found in the colon
Polyp
Pro-,pros-
Before, forward
Pro/lapse “before slide”
Pros/thesis “placed before”
Quadri-
Four
Quadri/plegia
Re-
Behind
An increase on severity of a disease or any of its symptoms
Exacerbation
Retro-
Back , behind
Sub-
Under, less than
Syn-
With, together
Syn/drome “occurring together”
-drome
Running, occurring
Tachy-
Fast
What happens in Transurethral resection of the prostate gland (TURP)?
pieces of the prostate gland are removed though urethra
-cuspid
Pointed end
Ultra-
Beyond
Ultrasonography
Uni-
One
Tricuspid valve is on the ____ side of the heart
Right
Mitral (bicuspid) valve is on the ____ side of the heart
Left
