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CHPT 4
Vocab
Term | Definition |
---|---|
iatr(o) | physician or treatment |
idi(o) | individual |
nos(o), path(o) | disease |
cancer(o), carcin(o) | cancer |
lith(o) | stone or calculus |
onc(o) | tumor |
-cele | hernia |
-emia | condition of the blood |
-ia, -iasis | condition |
-itis | inflamation |
-lith | stone or calculus |
-mania | excessive preoccupation |
-maniac | a person who shows excessive preoccupation |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | condition |
-pathy | disease |
-phobia | abnormal fear |
-ptosis | prolapse (sagging) |
-able, -ible | capable of, able to |
-al, -ary, -eal, -ive, -tic | pertaining to |
-ase | enzyme |
-eum, -ium | membrane |
-ia, -ism | condition or theory |
-iac | one who suffers |
-opia | vision |
-ose | sugar |
-ous | pertaining to or characterized by |
-y | state or condition |
-cyt(o) | cell |
gen(o) | beginning, origin |
kinesi(o) | movement |
leps(o) | seizure |
log(o) | knowledge or words |
lys(o) | destruction, dissolving |
megal(o) | large, enlarged |
metr(o)* | measure, uterine tissue |
path(o) | disease |
phag(o) | eat, ingest |
phas(o) | speech |
plas(o) | formation, development |
plast(o) | repair |
pleg(o) | paralysis |
schis(o), schiz(o), schist(o) | split, cleft |
scler(o) | hard |
scop(o) | to examine, to view |
troph(o) | nutrition |
alb(o), albin(o), leuk(o), leuc(o) | white |
chlo(o) | green |
cyan(o) | blue |
erythr(o) | red |
melan(o) | black |
xanth(o) | yellow |
bi(o) | life or living |
cephal(o) | head |
hist(o) | tissue |
lact(o) | milk |
muscul(o), my(o) | muscle |
nas(o), rhin(o) | nose |
pod(o) | foot |
pyr(o) | fire |
tox(o), toxic(o) | poison |
seps(o) | infection |
sept(i), sept(o) | infection |
bacter(i), bacteri(o) | bacteria |
fung(i), myc(o) | fungus |
staphyli(o) | grapelike cluster; uvula |
strept(o) | twisted |
vir(o), virus(o) | virus |