Medical Terminology Ch 4 2
Terms
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- abdomin/o
- abdomen
- an/o
-
anus
(opening to the digestive tract from the outside of the body) - bi/o
- life
- cardi/o
- heart
- carp/o
- carpals
- cis/o
- to cut
- cost/o
- ribs
- crani/o
- skull
- cutane/o
- skin
- dur/o
-
dura mater
(outermost meningeal membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord) - gen/o
-
to produce
to begin - glyc/o
- sugar
- hemat/o
- blood
- later/o
- side
- men/o
-
menses
(monthly discharge of blood from the lining of the uterus) - nat/i
- birth
- neur/o
- nerve
- norm/o
-
rule
order - oste/o
- bone
- peritone/o
-
peritoneum
(membrane surrounding the organs in the abdomen) - plas/o
-
formation
growth
development - ren/o
- kidney
- scapul/o
-
scapula
(shoulder blade) - son/o
- sound
- thyroid/o
- thyroid gland
- top/o
-
to put
place
position - troph/o
-
development
nourishment - urethr/o
-
urethra
(tube leading from the bladder to the outside of the body) - uter/o
- uterus
- ven/o
- vein
- vertebr/o
-
vertebra
(backbone) - -al
- pertaining to
- -ation
-
process
condition - -cision
- process of cutting
- -crine
- secretion
- -dipsia
- thirst
- -emia
- blood condition
- -gen
- to produce
- -graphy
- process of recording
- -ia
-
process
condition - -ic
- pertaining to
- -ine
- pertaining to
- -ism
-
condition
process - -lapse
-
to fall
slide - -lysis
-
loosening
breakdown
separation
destruction - -mission
- to send
- -mortem
- death
- -oma
-
tumor
mass - -ous
- pertaining to
- -partum
- birth
- -pathy
- disease condition
- -phagia
-
to eat
swallow - -phasia
- to speak
- -plegia
- paralysis
- -plasm
- formation
- -pnea
- breathing
- -rrhea
-
flow
discharge - -scopy
- process of visual examination
- -section
- to cut
- -stasis
-
to stand
place
stop
control - -tension
- pressure
- -thesis
-
to put
place
(state of putting or placing) - -tic
- pertaining to
- -um
- structure
- -uria
- urine condition
- -y
-
process
condition -
a-
an- -
no
not
without - ab-
- away from
- ad-
-
toward
near - ana-
-
up
apart - ante-
-
before
forward - anti-
- againt
- bi-
-
two
both - brady-
- slow
- con
-
with
together - dia-
-
through
complete - dys-
-
bad
painful
difficult
abnormal - ec-
-
out
outside - endo-
-
within
in
inner - epi-
-
above
upon - ex-
- out
- extra-
- outside of
- hemi-
- half
- hyper-
-
excessive
too much
above - hypo-
-
deficient
too little
below - in-
-
in
into - inter-
- between
- intra-
- within
- mal-
- bad
- meta-
-
change
beyond - neo-
- new
- para-
-
beside
near
along the side of - peri-
- surrounding
- poly-
-
many
much - post-
-
after
behind - pre-
- before
- pro-
-
before
forward - pros-
-
before
forward - quadri-
- four
- re-
-
back
behind - retro-
-
back
behind - sub-
-
under
less than - syn-
-
with
together - tachy-
- fast
- trans-
-
across
through - tri-
- three
- ultra-
- beyond
- uni-
- one