Roots for the Nervous System and the Spinal Cord

Question 1

Root: mening/o, meninge/o
Ex: meningocele

Answer 1

Meaning: meninges
Def. of Ex: hernia of the meninges

Question 2

Root: radicul/o
Ex: radiculopathy

Answer 2

Meaning: spinal nerve root
Def. of Ex: any disease of a spinal nerve root

Question 3

Root: myel/o
Ex: hematomyelia

Answer 3

Meaning: spinal cord (also bone marrow)
Def. of Ex: hemorrhage into the spinal cord

Question 4

Root: neur/o, neur/i
Ex: neurotrophin

Answer 4

Meaning: nervous system, nervous tissue, nerve
Def. of Ex: factor that promotes nerve growth (troph/o = nourish)

Question 5

Root: gli/o
Ex: glial

Answer 5

Meaning: neuroglia
Def. of Ex: pertaining to neuroglia

Question 6

Root: gangli/o, ganglion/o
Ex: ganglioma

Answer 6

Meaning: ganglion
Def. of Ex: tumor of a ganglion