The Language of Medicine Flashcards
arthr/o
Joint
Aden/o
Gland
Carcin/o
Cancer,cancerous
Cephal/o
Head
Crin/o
To secrete (to form and give off)
Cerebr/o
Cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
Cis/o
To cut
Cyst/o
Urinary bladder, a sac or cyst (containing fluid)
Cyt/o
Cell
Encephal/o
Brain
Erythr/o
Red blood cell
Enter/o
Intestines (usually the small Intestines)
derm/ or dermat/o
skin
glyc/o
Sugar
gnos/o
Knowledge
gynec/o
Female,Woman
Hemat/o
Blood
hepat/o
liver
iatr/o
treatment,physician
leuk/o
White
log/o
Study of
Nephr/o
Kidney
Neur/o
Nerve
Onc/o
Tumor (cancerous)
Ophthalm/o
Eye
Oste/o
Bone
Path/o
Disease
Ped/o
Child
rhin/o
Nose
Sarc/o
Flesh
Radi/o
X-rays
Psych/o
Mind
sect/o
To cut
Thromb/o
Clot,clotting
Ur/o
Urinary tract,urine
-ac
Pertaining to
-al
Pertaining to
-algia
Pain
-ectomy
Excision,removal
-emia
Blood condition
-genic
Pertaining to producing,produced by or produced in
globin
Protein
-gram
Record
-ic, -ical
Pertaining to
-ion
Process
-ist
Specialist
-itis
Inflammation
-logy
Process of study
-oma
Tumor,mass, swelling
-opsy
Process of viewing
-osis
condition, usually abnormal (slight increase numbers when used with blood cells)
-pathy
Disease condition
-scope
Instrument to visually examine
-scopy
process of visual examination
-sis
State of; condition
-tomy
Process of cutting, incision
-y
Process, condition
a-, an-
no,not, without
aut-,auto
Self, own
dia-
Complete, through
Endo
Within
epi-
above, upon
ex-, exo-
Out, outside of, outward
Hyper-
excessive, above, more than normal
hypo-
Deficient,below, under, less
in-
Into
peri-
Surrounding, around
pro-
Before
re-
Backward, back, again
retro-
behind
sub-
below, under
trans-
across, through
hist/o
tissue
Dors/o
back
ventr/o
belly
abdomin/o
abdomen: region below the chest containing internal organs (liver,Intestines, stomach, and gallbladder)
adip/o
fat or lipid
anter/o
front
cervic/o
neck (of the body or of the uterus)
chondr/o
cartilage (type of connective tissue) chondroma: this is a benign of tumor
chrom/o
color (chromosomes) absorbs the color of dyes used to stain the cell.
coccyg/o
coccyx(tailbone) coccygeal.
crani/o
skull (craniotomy)
dist/o
far,distant (distal)
kary/o
nucleus
inguin/o
groin (inguinal)
later/o
side; lateral
lumb/o
lower back
medi/o
middle (medial)
nucle/o
nucleus, nucleic
sacr/o
sacrum, sacral
proxim/o
nearest, proximal
spin/o
spine,backbone
thel/o, theli/o
nipple epithelial cell
thorac/o
chest, thoracic (thoracotomy
trache/o
trachea,windpipe (tracheal)
umbilic/o
nevel, umbilicus. (umbilical)
viscer/o
internal organs. (visceral)
ventr/o
belly side of the body. (Ventral)
-eal
pertaining to
-iac
pertaining to
-ior
pertaining to (bodies )
-ism
process,condition (type)
means: picture,classification
acu/o
sharp,severe,sudden
angi/o
vessel
arteri/o
artery
axill/o
armpit
blephar/o
eyelid
bronch/o
bronchial tubes
isch/o
to hold back
lapar/o
abdominal wall, abdomen
mamm/o
breast
morph/o
shape, form
my/o
muscle
myel/o
spinal cord; bone marrow
necr/o
death ( of cell or whole body)
neutr/o
neutrophil (a white blood cell)
opi/o
opium
ot/o
eye
peritone/o
peritoneum
phag/o
to eat, swallow
phleb/o
vein
pleur/o
pleura (membrane surrounding lungs and adjacent to cell wall)
-cele eg. rectocele, cystocele.
hernia
-centesis
means puncture; to remove fluid
Terminology; thoracentesia
shortened from thoracocentesis
-coccus
-cocci (plural)
berry- shaped bacterium.
bacteria (plural)
Terminologies: streptococcus
straphylococci
(stah-fih-lo-KOK-si)
-dynia
pain.
Terms; pleurodynia: pain in the chest wall muscle that is aggravated by breathing.
-lysis
breakdown, destruction, separation.
term: hemolysis (normal breakdown of the red blood cells)
-malacia
softening
terms: osteomalacia
chondromalacia
-megaly
enlargement
Term: acromegaly, splenomegaly
-penia
deficiency
Terms: erythropenia, neutropenia
-plasia
development, formation, growth
Term: achondroplasia (an inherited disorder or can be a result of mutation ( change) in specific gene. Bones of the arm and leg do not grow to normal size because of the defect in cartilage and bone formation.
Results to Dwarfism.
-stasis
controlling, stopping
-stasis
controlling, stopping
-stomy
opening to form a mouth (stoma)
-tomy
incision, cutting into
-trophy
development, nourishment
hypertrophy
Cells increase in size, not number. Muscles of weight lifters often hypertrophy
atrophy
Cells decrease in size. Muscles atrophy when immobilized in a cast and not in use.
