A & P vocabulary end of the year
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- Ankyl-
- Crooked, bent
- Kypho-
- Crooked Bent
- Steno-
- Narrow
- Brachy-
- Short
- Ortho-
- Straight
- Glauco-
- grey white
- Leuko-, leuko-
- white
- Red
- Erythro-
- Cyan-,cyano-
- Blue
- Black
- Melano-
- Melanin
- Yellow
- Cirrho-
- yellow
- Deci-
- tenth
- dent-
- tooth
- derma-
- skin
- diplo-
- double
- dors-
- Back
- Dys-
-
Painful
Abdominal - Ecto-
- outside
- Edem-
- Swelling
- Encephal-
- Brain
- Endo-
-
Inside
Within - entero-
- intestine
- Epi-
-
Above
Upper - Erytha-
- Red
- Faci-
- Face
- Fascia-
- band (fibrous)
- Gastro-
- Stomach
- Genu-
- Knee
- Gingiva-
- gums
- Pan-
- All
- Para-
- Beside
- Part-
- Birth, Labour
- Ped- Pod-
- Foot
- Paed-
- Child
- Peri-
- Around
- Pharyng-
- Pharynx
- Phleb-
- Vein
- Phrenic-
- diaphragm
- Pleur-
- Pieura of lung
- pneumo-
- Lung
- Poly-
- Many
- Post-
- behind
- Pre-
- Before
- Pro-
- Forward
- Procto
- Rectum
- Psuedo-
- False
- Psycho-
- Mind, Soul
- Pulm-
- Lung
- Pyelo-
- Bowl of kidney
- Pyo-
- Pus
- Ren-
- Kidney
- Retro-
- Backward
- Rhin-
- Nose
- Salpingo-
- Tube
- Sebum
- Wax, suet
- Semin-
- Seed
- Sial-
- Saliva
- Soma-
- Body
- Splen-
- spleen
- Spondyl-
- Spine
- Squam-
- Scaly
- Stoma-
- Mouth
- Stric-
- Narrowing
- Sub-
- Below
- Super- Supra-
- Above
- Tachy-
- Rapid
- Thel-
- Nipple
- Therm-
- Heat
- Thorac-
- Thorax
- Thrombo-
- Clot
- Trache-
- Trachea
- Trachel-
- Neck
- Trans-
- Across
- Vas-
- Vessel
- Vesic-
- Bladder, Sac
- Viscera-
- Organ
- -algia
- Pain
- -cele
- hernia, swellling
- -dynia
- pain
- -ectasis
- enlargement
- -(a)emia
-
Blood
ex. leuk aemia - -gen
-
Beginning
Producing
ex. carcinogen (cancer) - -iasis
-
Abnormal condition,
presence or formation of
ex. cholelithiasis (gallstone) - -itis
- Inflammation
- -malacia
-
Softening
ex:osteomalacia- softening bones - -megaly
-
Enlargement
ex: splenomegaly- spleen - -iod
-
resemble, similiar
ex: fibroid- resemble fiber - -oma
-
tumour
ex: adenoma- gland - -osis
-
abnormal condition
Ex: dermatosis- skin - -pathy
-
disease
Ex: nephropathy- kidney - -penia
-
decrease
deficiency
ex: erythropenia- red cell - -phagia
-
eating, swallowing
EX: dysphagia- difficult - -phasia
-
Speech
EX: aphasia- without speech - -plegia
-
paralysis,stroke
EX: hemiplegia- half paralysis - -phobia
-
Fear
EX: acrophobia- fear heights - -ptosis
-
Prolapse, falling,dropping
EX:blepharoptosis- eyelid dropping - -rrhage
-
burst forth
EX: haemorrhage- blood - -rrhea
-
discharge, flow of watery stools
EX: diarrhea - -rrhexis
-
Rupture
Ex: enterorrhexis-rupture intestine - -Sclerosis
-
hardening
EX: artheriosclerosis- joints - Suffixes meaning "pertaining to"
-
-ac cardiac
-al skeletal
-ary salivary
-ic pelic
-ical surgical
-ous venous
-tic paralytic
-ar muscular - Noun endings -iac
-
indicates person afficted with
certain disease or condition
EX: hemophil-iac - Noun ending -ia
-
an unhealthy state
EX: anesthesia - noun ending -is
-
form noun from root
EX: cutis- skin - Noun ending -ism
-
condition, state of being
EX: alcholism - Noun ending -ist
-
one who specializes
EX: radiologist - Noun ending -y
-
condition, process
Ex: neruropathy- nervous system disease - -Centesis
- puncture
- -crine
- Secrete within
- -dactyl
- finger,toe
- -Dema
- Swelling(fluid)
- -desis
- surgical fixation
- -duct
- opening
- -ology
- Study of
- -ectomy
- surgical removal
- -olysis
- breakdown
- -genic
- source, orgin
- -ostomy
- surgical opening
- -gram,-graph
- picture
- -otomy
- incision
- -lysis
- separation