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Chabner12-Ch04all
Chabner, Language of Medicine 12th Ed, Chapter 04 - All
Term | Definition |
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carp/o | wrist bones (carpals) |
cis/o | to cut |
cost/o | rib |
cutane/o | skin |
dactyl/o | fingers; toes |
duct/o | to lead, carry |
flex/o | bend |
furc/o | forking; branching |
gloss/o | tongue |
glyc/o | sugar |
immun/o | immune; protection; safe |
morph/o | shape; form |
mort/o | death |
nat/i | birth |
norm/o | rule; order |
ox/o | oxygen |
pub/o | pubis (anterior part of hip bone) |
seps/o | infection |
somn/o | sleep |
son/o | sound |
tens/o | force, strain, stretch |
the/o | put; place |
thel/o | nipple |
theli/o | nipple |
thyr/o | thyroid gland; shield |
top/o | place; position; location |
tox/o | poison |
trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
urethr/o | urethra |
-crine | secrete; separate |
-drome | to run |
-fusion | to pour; to come together |
-gen | substance that produces |
-lapse | slide, fall, sag |
-lysis | breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening |
-meter | measure |
-mission | send |
-or | one who |
-oxia | oxygen |
-partum | birth; labour |
-phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
-physis | to grow |
-plasia | development; formation; growth |
-plasm | formation; structure |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptom | happening, occurence |
-ptosis | falling; drooping; prolapse |
-rrhea | flow; discharge |
-stasis | stopping; controlling; placing |
-trophy | nourishment; development (condition of) |
a- | no; not; without |
an- | no; not; without |
ab- | away from |
ad- | toward |
ana- | up; apart; backward; again; anew |
ante- | before; forward |
anti- | against |
auto- | self, own |
bi- | two |
brady- | slow |
cata- | down |
con- | together, with |
contra- | against; opposite |
de- | lack of; down; less; removal of |
dia- | complete; through |
dys- | bad; painful; difficult; abnormal |
ec- | out; outside |
endo- | in; within |
epi- | above; upon; on |
eu- | good; normal; true |
ex- | out; away from |
hemi- | half |
hyper- | above; excessive |
hypo- | deficient; below; under; less than normal |
in- | in; into; not |
infra- | below; inferior to; beneath |
inter- | between |
macro- | large |
mal- | bad |
meta- | change; beyond |
micro- | small |
neo- | new |
pan- | all |
para- | near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of |
per- | through |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many; much; increased |
post- | after; behind |
pre- | before; in front of |
pro- | before; forward |
pros- | before; forward |
re- | back; again; backward |
retro- | behind; back; backward |
sub- | under; below |
supra- | above, upper |
syn- | together; with |
tachy- | fast |
trans- | across; through |
ultra- | beyond; excess |
uni- | one |
antigen | foreign substance that stimulates production of antibodies |
antibody | protein substance made by white blood cells |