Chapter 1-4 Combining Forms (LOM)
Terms
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- thel/o
- nipple
- cis/o
- to cut
- later/o
- side
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- ven/o
- vein
- ren/o
- kidney
- carp/o
- wrist bones (carpals)
- necr/o
- death (of cells or whole body)
- cib/o
- meals
- cost/o
- rib
- cutane/o
- skin
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- flex/o
- to bend
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- gloss/o
- tongue
- glyc/o
- sugar; glucose
- immun/o
- immune; protection; safe
- morph/o
- shape, form
- mort/o
- death
- nat/i
- birth
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- norm/o
- rule, order
- ox/o
- oxygen
- pub/o
- pubis (pubic bone) anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
- seps/o
- infection
- somn/o
- sleep
- son/o
- sound
- the/o
- to put, place
- thyr/o
- thyroid gland; shield
- top/o
- place, position, location
- tox/o
- poison
- trache/o
- windpipe, trachea
- urethr/o
- urethra (tube leading from the bladder to the outside of the body)
- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- acu/o
- sharp; severe; sudden
- acr/o
- extremities; top; extreme point
- aden/o
- gland
- adip/o
- fat
- agora
- marketplace
- amni/o
- amnion (sac surrounding the embryo)
- angi/o
- vessel (blood)
- anter/o
- front
- arteri/o
- artery
- arthr/o
- joint
- axill/o
- armpit
- bi/o
- life
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bol/o
- to cast; throw
- bronch/o
- bronchial tube
- carcin/o
- cancerous; cancer
- cardi/o
- heart
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
- cervic/o
- neck; cervix (neck of uterus)
- chem/o
- drug; chemical
- chrom/o
- color
- chron/o
- time
- chondr/o
- cartilage
- coccyg/o
- coccyx (tailbone)
- col/o
- colon (large intestine)
- crani/o
- skull
- crin/o
- secrete
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder; cyst; sac of fluid
- cyt/o
- cell
-
derm/o
dermat/o - skin
- dist/o
- far; distant
- dors/o
- back (of body)
- electr/o
- electricity
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually small intestine)
- erythr/o
- red
- gastr/o
- stomach
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- gynec/o
- woman; female
-
hem/o
hemat/o - blood
- hepat/o
- liver
- hist/o
- tissue
- hydr/o
- water
- iatr/o
- physician; treatment
- ili/o
- ilium (part of the pelvic bone)
- inguin/o
- groin
- isch/o
- to hold back; back
- kary/o
- nucleus
- lapar/o
- abdominal wall; abdomen
- laryng/o
- larynx (voice box)
- leuk/o
- white
- log/o
- study of
- lumb/o
- lower back; loin
- lymph/o
- lymph
- mamm/o
- breast
- mast/o
- breast
- medi/o
- middle
- muc/o
- mucus
- my/o
- muscle
- myel/o
- spinal cord; bone marrow
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- neutr/o
- neither; neutral; neutrophil
- nucle/o
- nucleus
- onc/o
- tumor
- oste/o
- bone
- ot/o
- ear
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child; foot
- pelv/i
- pelvic bone; hip
- peritone/o
- peritoneum
- phleb/o
- vein
- plas/o
- development; formation
- pleur/o
- pleura (membranes surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall muscles)
- pneumon/o
- lung; air; gas
- poster/o
- back (of body); behind
- proxim/o
- near
- psych/o
- mind
- pulmon/o
- lung
- radi/o
- x-rays; radioactivity; radius (lateral lower arm bone)
- rect/o
- rectum
- rhin/o
- nose
- sacr/o
- sacrum
- sarc/o
- flesh (connective tissue)
- sect/o
- to cut
- spin/o
- spine (backbone)
- splen/o
- spleen
- staphyl/o
- clusters; uvula
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- thorac/o
- chest
- thromb/o
- clot
- tonsill/o
- tonsil
- umbilic/o
- umbilicus (navel)
- ur/o
- urine; urinary tract
- viscer/o
- internal organs
- ventr/o
- belly side of body
- vertebr/o
- vertebra (backbone)