Chabner LOM Chapter One
Terms
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- aden/o
- gland
- -oma
- tumor, mass
- -itis
- inflammation
- arthr/o
- joint
- bi/o
- life
- -logy
- study of
- hemat/o, hem/o
- blood
- cardi/o
- heart
- electr/o
- electricity
- gastr/o
- stomach
- sub-
- below, under
- epi-
- above, upon
- -ic
- pertaining to
- -opsy
- process of viewing
- carcin/o
- cancerous, cancer
- cephal/o
- head
- cerebr/o
- cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
- vascul/o
- blood vessels
- cis/o
- to cut
- in-
- into, in
- -ion
- process
- crin/o
- secrete (to form and give off)
- ex-
- out
- endo-
- within
- exo-
- out
- cyst/o
- urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
- cyt/o
- cell
- derm/o
- skin
- hypo-
- deficient, below, under, less than normal
- -gram
- record
- encephal/o
- brain
- enter/o
- intestines (usually the small intestine)
- erythr/o
- red
- -cyte
- cell
- -tomy
- incision, cutting into
- gnos/o
- knowledge
- -sis
- state of
- pro-
- before, forward
- gynec/o
- woman, female
- -globin
- protein
- hepat/o
- liver
- iatr/o
- treatment
- -genic
- pertaining to producing, produced by, produced in
- leuk/o
- white
- nephr/o
- kidney
- neur/o
- nerve
- onc/o
- tumor
- -ist
- specialist
- ophthalm/o
- eye
- oste/o
- bone
- path/o
- disease
- ped/o
- child
- psych/o
- mind
- radi/o
- x-rays
- ren/o
- kidney
- rhin/o
- nose
- sarc/o
- flesh
- sect/o
- to cut
- re-
- back, backward, again
- thromb/o
- clot, clotting
- ur/o
- urinary tract, urine
- -ac
- pertaining to
- -al
- pertaining to
- -algia
- pain
- -ectomy
- excision, removal
- -emia
- blood condition
- -osis
- condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)
- -pathy
- disease condition
- -scope
- instrument to visually examine
- -scopy
- process of visually examining
- -y
- process condition
- a-, an-
- no, not, without
- auto-
- self
- dia-
- through, complete
- hyper-
- excessive, above, more than normal
- glyc/o
- sugar
- peri-
- surrounding, around
- -um
- structure
- retro-
- behind
- trans-
- across, through