Chapter 1-Combining Forms
Terms
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- cerebell/o
- cerebellum
- verebr/o
- verebrum
- dur/o
- dura mater
- encephal/o
- brain
- gli/o
- glue, parts of the nervous system that support and connect
- lept/o
- thin, slender
- mening/o, meningi/o
- membranes, meninges
- my/o
- muscle
- myel/o
- spinal cord (means bone marrow in other contexts)
- neur/o
- nerve
- pont/o
- pons
- radiclu/o
- nerve root (of spinal nerves)
- thalam/o
- thalamus
- thec/o
- sheath (refers to the meninges)
- alges/o, -algesia
- excessive senstivity to pain
- -algi
- pain
- caus/o
- burning
- conat/o
- deep sleep (coma)
- esthesi/o, -esthesia
- feeling, nervous sensation
- kines/o, -kinesia
- movement
- -kinesis, -kinetic
- movement
- -lepsy
- seizure
- lex/o
- word, phrase
- -paresis
- slight paralysis (weakness)
- -phasia
- speech
- -plegia
- paralysis (loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body)
- -praxia
- action
- -sthenia
- strength
- syncop/o
- to cut off, cut short
- tax/o
- order, coordination