LOM Chapter 4
Terms
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- macro-
- large
- duct/o
- to lead, carry
- -plasia
- development, formation
- trache/o
- windpipe, trachea
- retro-
- behind, backward
- carp/o
-
wrist bones
- re-
- back, again
- cis/o
- to cut
- uni-
- one
- flex/o
-
to bend
- ultra-
- beyond, excess
- dactyl/o
- fingers, toes
- pan-
- all
- cost/o
- rib
- de-
- down, lack of
- son/o
- sound
- in-
- into
- furc/o
- forking, branching
- poly-
- many, much
- immun/o
- protection
- a-
- no, not, without
- glyc/o
- sugar
- -physis
- to grow
- norm/o
- rule, order
- hyper-
- excessive, above
- nect/o
- to bind, tie, connect
- eu-
- good, normal
- nat/i
- birth
- -ptosis
- droop, sag, prolapse
- mort/o
- death
- pseudo-
- false
- cutane/o
- skin
- -lapse
- to slide, fall, sag
- morph/o
- shape, form
- dys-
- bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
- cib/o
- meals
- an-
- no, not, without
- somn/o
- sleep
- -rrhea
- flow, discharge
- tox/o
- poison
- neo-
- new
- seps/o
- infection
- ec-
- out, outside
- gloss/o
- tongue
- -blast
-
embryonic, immature
- the/o
- to put, place
- -lysis
- breakdown, separation, loosening
- thyr/o
- sheild; the shape of the thyroid gland resembled a sheild to those who named it.
- cata-
- down
- thel/o
- nipple
- top/o
- place, position, location
- per-
- through
- urethr/o
- urethra
- ana-
- up, apart
- ox/o
- oxygen
- anti-
- against
- contra-
- against, opposite
- pro-
- before, forward
- -cyesis
- pregnancy
- pre-
- before, in front of
- brady-
- slow
- -drome
- to run
- ante-
- before, forward
-
syn-
sym-
* Before the letters b,p and m, syn- becomes sym- * - together, with
- -partum
- birth, labor
- -fusion
- to pour
- -pnea
- breathing
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- mal-
- bad
- supra-
- above, upper
- meta-
- change, beyond
- para-
- near, beside, abnormal
- bi-
- two
- en-
- in, within
- -plasm
- development, formation
- tachy-
- fast
- ex-
- out, away from
- ecto-
- out, outside
- auto-
- self, own
- -gen
- producing, forming
- epi-
- upon, on, above
- micro-
- small
- con-
- with, together
- ab-
- away from
- trans-
- across, through
- -meter
- to measure
- intra-
- into, within
- inter-
- between
- dia-
- through, complete
- infra-
- beneath
- endo-
- in, within
- -mission
- to send
- -stasis
- stop, control; place
- ad-
- toward
- hypo-
- deficient, under
- hemi-
- half
- sub-
- under
- peri-
- surrounding
- -or
- one who
- -phoria
- to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
- post-
- after, behind