The Language of Medicine Ch 3
Terms
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- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- acr/o
-
extremities
top
extreme point - acu/o
-
sharp
severe
sudden - aden/o
- gland
- agor/a
- marketplace
- amni/o
- amnion(sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)
- angi/o
- vessel
- arteri/o
- artery
- arthr/o
- joint
- axill/o
- armpit
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes(two tubes,one right and one left, that branch from the trachea to enter the lungs)
- carcin/o
- cancer
- chem/o
-
drug
chemical - chondr/o
- cartilage
- chron/o
- time
- col/o
- colon(large intestines)
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder
- encephal/o
- brain
- hydr/o
-
water
fluid - inguin/o
- groin
- isch/o
- to hold back
- lapar/o
-
abdomen
abdominal wall - laryng/o
- larynx (voice box)
- lymph/o
- lymph
- mamm/o
- breast
- mast/o
- breast
- morph/o
-
shape
form - muc/o
- mucus
- my/o
- muscle
- myel/o
-
spinal cord
bone marrow - necr/o
- death (of cells or whole body)
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- neutr/o
- neutrophil (a white blood cell)
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- ot/o
- ear
- path/o
- disease
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phag/o
-
to eat
swallow - phleb/o
- vein
- plas/o
-
formation
development - pleur/o
-
pleura
(membranes surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall muscles) - pneumon/o
- lungs
- pulmon/o
- lungs
- rect/o
- rectum
- ren/o
- kidney
- sarc/o
- flesh
- splen/o
- spleen
- staphyl/o
- clusters
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- thorac/o
- chest
- thromb/o
- clot
- tonsill/o
- tonsils
- trache/o
- trachea (windpipe)
- ven/o
- vein
- -algia
- pain
- -cele
- hernia
- -centesis
- surgical punture to remove fluid
-
-coccus
(plural: -cocci) -
berry-shapped bacterium
(plural bacteria) - -cyte
- cell
- -dynia
- pain
- -ectomy
-
excision
removal
resection - -emia
- blood condition
- -genesis
-
condition of producing
forming - -genic
-
pertaining to
producing
produced by
or in - -gram
- record
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -itis
- inflammation
- -logy
- study of
- -lysis
-
breakdown
destruction
separation - -malacia
- softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -oma
-
tumor,
mass,
collection of fluid - -opsy
- to view
- -osis
-
condition,
usually abnormal - -pathy
- disease condition
- -penia
- deficiency
- -phobia
- fear
- -plasia
-
development
formation
growth - -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
-
drooping
sagging
prolapse - -sclerosis
- hardening
- -scope
- instrument for visual examination
- -scopy
- process of visual examination
- -stasis
-
stopping
controlling - -stomy
- opening to form a mouth (stoma)
- -therapy
- treatment
- -tomy
-
incision
to cut into - -trophy
-
development
nourishment - -er
- one who
- -ia
- condition
- -ist
- specialist
- -ole
-
little
small - -ule
-
little
small -
-um
-ium -
structure
tissue
thing - -y
-
condition
process -
-ac
-iac - pertaining to
- -al
- pertaining to
- -ar
- pertaining to
- -ary
- pertaining to
- -eal
- pettaining to
-
-ic
-ical - pertaining to
- -oid
- resembling
- -ose
-
pertaining to
full of - -ous
- pertaining to
- -tic
- pertaining to