LOM-Chapter 3
Terms
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- acr/o
- extremities, top, extreme point
- acu/o
- sharp, severe, sudden
- agor/a
- marketplace
- amni/o
- amnion (sac surr. embryo in uterus)
- angi/o
- vessel
- arteri/o
- artery
- axill/o
- armpit
- blephar/o
- eyelid
- bronch/o
- bronchial tubes
- chem/o
- drug, chemical
- chron/o
- time
- col/o
- colon
- hydr/o
- water, fluid
- isch/o
- to hold back
- lapar/o
- abdomen, abdominal wall
- mast/o
- breast
- morph/o
- shape, form
- muc/o
- mucus
- myel/o
- spinal cord or bone marrow
- my/o
- muscle
- necr/o
- death (of cells or whole body)
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- neutro/o
- neutrophil (white blood cell)
- opthalm/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 (membrane surr. lungs)
- pneumon/o
- lungs
- pulmon/o
- lungs
- rect/o
- rectum
- ren/o
- kidney
- splen/o
- spleen
- staphyl/o
- clusters
- strept/o
- twisted chains
- thromb/o
- clot
- ven/o
- vein
- -cele
- hernia
- -centesis
- surgical procedure to remove fluid
- -coccus
- berry-shaped bacterium
- -dynia
- pain
- -genesis
- condition of producing, forming
- -gram
- record
- -graph
- instrument for recording
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -lysis
- breakdown, destruction, separation
- -malacia
- softening
- -megaly
- enlargement
- -opsy
- to view
- -osis
- condition, usually abnormal
- -penia
- deficiency
- -plasia
- development, formation, growth
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -ptosis
- dropping, sagging
- -sclerosis
- hardening
- -scope
- instrument for visual exam
- -scopy
- process of visual exam
- -stasis
- stopping, controlling
- -stomy
- opening to form a mouth (stoma)
- -therapy
- treatment
- -tomy
- incision
- -trophy
- nourishment, development
- -er
- one who
- -ia
- condition
- -ole
- little, small
- -ule
- little, small
- -um, ium
- structure, tissue, thing
- -y
- condition, process
- -ar
- pert. to
- -ary
- pert. to
- -oid
- resembling
- -ous
- pert. to
- -tic
- pert. to