Combining Forms-CMT
Terms
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- arthr/o
- joint
- bi/o
- life
- carcin/o
- cancer
- Cardi/o
- heart
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
- cis/o
- to cut
- crin/o
- secrete (to form and give off)
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
- cyt/o
- cell
- derm/o
- skin
- dermat/o
- skin
- electr/o
- electricity
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually the small intestine)
- erythr/o
- red
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- gynec/o
- woman, female
-
hemat/o
hem/o - blood
- hepat/o
- liver
- iatr/o
- treatment
- leuk/o
- white
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- onc/o
- tumor
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child
- Psych/o
- mind
- radi/o
- x-rays; radioactivity, radius (lateral lower arm bone)
- ren/o
- kidney
- rhin/o
- nose
- sect/o
- to cut
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- ur/o
- urinary tract, urine
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- adip/o
- fat
- anter/o
- front
- bol/o
- to cast (throw)
- cervic/o
- neck (of the body of the uterus)
- chondr/o
- cartilage (type of connective tissue)
- chrom/o
- color
- coccyg/o
- coccyx (tailbone)
- crani/o
- skull
- dist/o
- far, distant
- dors/o
- back portion of the body
- hist/o
- tissue
- ili/o
- ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
- inguin/o
- groin
- kary/o
- nucleus
- later/o
- side
- lumb/o
- lower back (side and back between the ribs and the pelvis)
- medi/o
- middle
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- pelv/o
- hip,pelvic cavity
- poster/o
- back, behind
- proxim/o
- nearest
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- sarc/o
- flesh
- spin/o
- spine, backbone
- thel/o
- nipple
- thorac/o
- chest
- trache/o
- trachea,windpipe
- unbilic/o
- navel, umbilicus
- ventr/o
- belly side of the body
- vertebr/o
- vertebrae, backbones
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- 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
- axill/o
- armpit
- blehar/o
- eyelid
- broncho/o
- bronchial tubes (two tubes, one right and one left, that branch from the trachea to enter the lungs)
- chem/o
- drug, chemical
- chron/o
- time
- col/o
- colon (large intestine)
- neutr/o
- neutrophil (a white blood cell)
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- ot/o
- ear
- Peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phag/o
- to eat, swallow
- phleb/o
- vein
- plas/o
- formation, devepment
- pleur/o
- pleura(membranes surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall muscles)
- pneumon/o
- lungs
- -carp/o
- wrist
- cib/o
- meals
- cost/o
- rib
- cutane/o
- skin
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- flex/o
- to bend
- fluor/o
- luminous
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- gloss/o
- tongue
- glyc/o
- sugar
- immun/o
- protection
- morph/o
- shape or form
- mort/o
- death
- nat/i
- birth
- eosino/o
- red,rosy,dawn-colored
- bas/o
- base; opposite of acid
- staphl/o
- clusters