| Question |
Answer |
| pent/a- |
five |
| peps/o- |
digestion; dyspepsia- referring to difficult or painful digestion |
| per- |
through; permeate- to go through |
| peri- |
around; pericardium- referring to the covering around the heart |
| perine/o- |
base or floor; perineal- referring to the floor |
| periton/e- |
that which holds the lower viscera; peritoneum- that which holds the lower organs in place |
| peroneo- |
pin or concerning the lower outside leg bone; peroneal- refers to the lateral compartment of the leg |
| pes |
foot; tailpes- foot and ankle |
| petech/i- |
small; petechial- referring to small little spots |
| petit |
little illness; petit mal- little illness |
| petro- |
rock, stone, hard; petroderma- rock, stone, hard skin |
| phago- |
eat, eating, perverse appetite; phagocytosis- cells that eat other cells |
| phalang/o- |
close knit row (finger and toes); aphalangia- absence of fingers or toes |
| pharmac/o- |
drug relationship, to drug, medicine; pharmacologist- study of drugs |
| pharyng/o- |
throat; pharyngitis- inflammation of the throat |
| phas/o- |
speech or speaking; dysphasia- difficulty in speaking |
| -phase |
stage; metaphase- stage or appearance of change |
| -pheresis |
withdrawal or to separate; hematopheresis- to separate blood |
| -phile |
love of, to love, love for; necrophile- someone in love with dead bodies |
| phim/o- |
to muzzle or muzzling; phimosis- a condition or muzzling |
| phleb/o- |
vein; phlebitis- inflammation of vein |
| phob/o- |
fear; hydrophobia- fear of water |
| phoc/o- |
seal; phocomelia- refers to seal limbs like flippers |
| phon/o- |
voice or sound; dysphonia- referring to difficulty in making sound |
| phor/o- |
feeling (mental); euphoria- good feeling |
| -phoresis |
migration, transport, move or carry; aphoresis-apparatus for taking blood |
| phot/o- |
light; photophobia- fear of light (or fear of the pain caused by light) |
| phrag/o- |
wall or partition; diaphragm-a wall across body separating |
| phraso- |
speech or talk; aphrasia- not being able to speak |
| -phraxia |
stoppage or obstruction; hemophraxia- referring to an obstruction in blood flow |
| phren/o- |
mind or diaphragm; phernia- pertains to the mind |
| -phylaxis |
protection or guard; prophylaxis- before protection or guard |
| physi/o- |
function of or nature; physiology- how the body functions |
| -physis |
growth or nature of; symphysis- growing together |
| phyto- |
plant; phytotoxin- plant poison |
| pia- |
gentle; pia mater- gentle mother |
| pil/o- |
hair; piloma- swelling of the hair follicle |
| pinn/a- |
feather or feather like; pinnaform- feather like shape |
| pituit/o- |
phlegm or glue like mucus; pituitary- mucoid fluid discharges when gland is pinched during diasection |
| pitryr/i- |
bran (cereal like scales on skin); pityriasis- bran (cereal like scales on the skin) |
| placent/a- |
cake; placentitis- afterbirth or structure attached to uterine wall during pregnancy that provides nutrition (Cake) to the fetus |
| -plakia |
plate or plate-like; leukoplakia- white plate cancer lesions on a membrane or the skin |
| plan/o- |
flat or a plain; planus- flat footed |
| plant/o- |
sole of foot; plantar- referring to the sole of the foot |
| plas- |
growth, development, formation; hyperplasia- pertaining to rapid excessive development growth |
| -plegia |
paralysis; quadriplegia- paralysis of all four limbs |
| pleur/o- |
side or rib; pleuritis- inflammation of side or rib |
| -plexy |
paralysis; neuroplexy- nerve paralysis |
| -pnea |
breathe or breathing; apnea- not breathing |
| pneum/o- |
lung, air, respiration; pneumothorax- abnormal accumulation of air in the lungs resulting in a collapsed lung |
| -poiesis |
to make, form, produce; hematopoeisis- to make red blood cells |
| poikil/o- |
irregular or varied shape; poikiliocytic- irregular or varied shape of a cell |
| poli/o- |
gray; poliomyelitis- inflammation of the gray spinal cord |
| pollex- |
thumb; pollexectomy- removal of the thumb |
| poly- |
many; polydipsia- being thirsty |
| pons |
bridge |
| por/o- |
cavity or passage (porous); osteoporosis- condition of bone passage |
| post- |
after or behind; postpartum- referring to the afterbirth process |
| -pox |
pits; small pox |
| prand/i- |
meal or breakfast; prandial- pertains to a meal |
| -prax/ia |
movement or action; myopraxis- muscle movement |
| pre- |
before; prenatal- before birth |
| prepuce |
foreskin or hood |
| presbyo- |
old; presbyopia- refers to weak eyes of elderly vision |
| prim/i- |
first; primary |
| pro- |
before; prognosis- prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease |
| proct/o- |
rectum or anus; proctologist- study of the rectum |
| prone- |
to bend forward; pronation- lay face down |
| propri/o- |
property (nerve stimuli or information); proprioceptor- a receptor located in tissue that responds stimuli produced with the body |
| prostat/o- |
one who lies before; prostatectomy- to cut out the prostate gland that lie in front of the urinary bladder |
| proto- |
first; protozoon- single cell animal (first animals) |
| proxim/o- |
close or closest; proximal- referring to what is closest |
| prur/i- |
itch or itching; pruritis- inflammation that causes itching |
| pseud/o- |
false; pseudomembranous- state of false like skin |
| psoas |
loin (lumbar); psoas- these are the muscles above the flank and beside the lumbar region |
| psor/i- |
to itch; psoriasis- condition of itchy skin |
| psych/o- |
mind; psychology- studying the mind |
| pteryg/o- |
winged; pterygoid- resembling wings; archeopetryx |
| -ptosis |
to drop, fall, displace; splanchnoptosis- prolapse of the kidney |
| -ptysis |
spitting or spit; hemoptysis- the expectoration of blood or bloody spit |
| pub/o- |
private parts; pubic- referring to private parts |
| pulmon/o- |
lung; pulmonary-pertaining to lungs |
| pulp/o- |
solid flesh; pulpitis- inflammation of the pulp of a tooth |
| pupill/o- |
pupil; pupill = pupil (I have faith I can remember this one) |
| purpur/o- |
purple; purpuric- referring to small purple hemorrhages that appear on the skin |
| pyel/o- |
pelvis or kidney; pyelonephritis- inflammation of the kidney |
| pykno- |
thick, dense, compact; pyknemia- refers to the thickening of the blood, that often causes heart attacks and strokes |
| pyl/o- |
gatekeeper; pyloric- opening between the stomach and the duodenum |
| pyo- |
pus; pyogenic- producing or generating pus |
| pyret/o- |
fever; pyretic- referring to something that causes a fever |
| quadr/i- |
four |
| quint/i- |
five |
| radi/o |
ray, spoke, X-ray, radio activity; radiation |
| radic/o- |
nerve root or spinal nerve; radiculitis- inflammation of nerve root |
| ray- |
spoke or wave length |
| re- |
again; respiration- process of continuing to breath |
| rect/o- |
rectum or straight; rectoclysis- washing out the rectum (so like an enema) |
| ren/o- |
kidney; renal- pertaining to the kidney |
| reticul/o- |
network; reticulation-a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network |
| retina |
net or net like; retinitis- inflammation of blood vessels that are on the eyes, so basically the net like things you see when your eyes are itchy |
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