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Carcino- Dacryo
Question | Answer |
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carcino- | crab-like |
cardio- | heart |
carp/o | wrist |
cata- | breakdown or down |
cataract- | waterfall or cloudiness |
catarrh- | to flow down |
catheter/o- | to let down in |
caud/o- | tail or toward tail |
caust/o- | burn or heat |
cauter/o- | to burn or to heat; cauterize |
cav- | hollow; cavity |
cebo- | meal or food; cebum- pertaining to meal or food |
cec/o- | blind pouch; cecopexy- dead end pouch or 1rst part of a colon |
-cele | swelling or tumor; laparocele- abdominal swelling |
celio- | abdomen or belly; celioma- belly tumor |
cellul/o- | chambers; cellulitis- infection of the chamber or body cells |
cement/o- | hard; cementum- refers to a hardening of the tooth root covering |
-centesis | surgical puncture to drain fluid; thoracocentesis- surgical punture to drain fluid from the chest |
centi- | one-hundreth part (100) |
centr/i- | center; centrifuge- spins around center |
cephal/o- | head; encephalitis- inflamation within the brain |
-cept- | receiver; chemoceptor- chemical or drug receiver |
cereb/o- | brain; cerebrial- refers to the brain |
ceru- | wax; cerumenous- having wax in the ear |
cervi- | neck; cervical- refers to the vertebrae in the neck |
chalaz/io- | hailstone; Chalazio- tumor that is small and hailstone on the eyelid. |
chancro- | ulcer (sore); chancroid- ulcer caused by syphilis |
cheil/o- | lip; cheiloma- tumor on the lip |
chiro- | hand; chiropractor- one who practices with their hand |
chlor/o- | green; chloremia- green pigments in the blood |
cholangio- | bile duct; cholangio- inflamation of the bile duct |
chole- | bile or gall |
cholecyst/o- | gallbladder; cholecystectomy- removing the gallbladder |
choledocho- | gallbladder duct (canal)- choledochectomy- duct removed from the liver and gallbladder |
cholera | bilary acute diarrhea; cholera- the excessive diarrhea causes dehydration and death |
chondr/o- | cartilage; chondroma- tumor made of cartilage |
chrom/o- | colored; chromosome- colored body |
chyme- | juice; achymia- not enough inestinal juices |
-cicatrix | scar; brachiocicatrix- scar on the arm |
-cid | to kill; suicidal- to kill oneself |
cil/i- | eyelash-like; cilia- eyelash-like structures on the lining of the lungs |
cine/o- | movement filming; cineangiocardiography- filming the movement of heart vessel |
circum- | around; circumflex- bend around |
cirrho- | yellow-orange; cirrhosis- yellow-orange condition caused by infection of the liver |
-cis | cut or to cut; incision- cut into something |
-clast | breakdown; osteoclast- breakdown of the bone cells |
calviculo- | collarbone; infraclavicular- beneath the collarbone |
cleido- | clavicle or collarbone |
clino- | bent; clinodactylia- bent finger or toe |
-clysis | irrigation or injection; hydroclysis- injection of water |
co- | two |
coagul/o- | clotting or to clot; coagulation |
-cocuss | berry; staphylococcus- berry shaped bacteria |
coccyg/o- | tailbone; coccygeal- refering to the tail bone |
cochle/o- | snail-like; cochlear- pertaining to lower snail-like part of the ear |
col/o- | colon (big or large intestine) |
colpo- | vagina; colpitis- inflamtion of the vagina |
com- | together; communicate |
camato- | deep sleep; comatose |
concuss/i- | violent shaking; concussion- brain injury caused by violent shaking of the brain |
condylo- | knuckle; condyloma- tumors on the knuckle |
coni/o- | dust; pneumoconiosis- conditon with dust in the lungs |
-conis | cone-shaped; kertoconis- having a cone-shaped cornea |
conjunctiv/o- | joined together; conjuctivitis- inflamation that caused the membrane on the eye and the bakc of the eyelid to join together |
conta- | against; contraception |
contusi- | bruise; contusion |
convolo- | to roll together; convolution- pertaining to rolling together |
cord- | vocal chords or cord |
cori/o- | skin; corium- refering to skin |
corne/o- | cornea or horn shape; corneitis |
cornu- | horn or honry |
coron/o- | crowning; coronary- refering to the crowning hear blood vessel |
coronal plane- | crowning or frontal body; coronal |
corp/o- | body; corpus |
cortic/o- | bark, outer bark, rind, cortex |
costo- | rib; costal- refering to a rib |
crani/o- | skull |
-creas | fleshy or flesh; pancreas- all fleshy organ |
crenat/o- | notched; crenation- iregularly notched blood cells |
-crine | secrete; endocrine- secretes within the blood |
-crit | separate; hematocrit- something that seperates the blood |
cruc/i- | cross or cross-like; crucio- causing pain like when Jesus was strapped to the cross |
cryo- | cold; cryotherapy |
crypto- | hidden; cyptorchidism- hidden testicle |
cub/o- | cube or cube-shaped; cuboid- cube or cube like shape |
cubito- | elbow; cubital- elbow region |
culd/o- | blind pouch |
-cule; | little; molecule- little mass |
currett/o- | scooping or scraping; curettage- scooping out the uterus, also called an abortion |
cusis- | hearing; ancusis- without hearing |
cusp/i- | pointed; cuspid- referring to the pointed flaps of heart valves |
cuti/o, cut-, cuti- | skin; cuticle |
cyano | blue |
cycl/o- | circle; cyclic |
-cyesis | pegnancy; multicyesis- many preganancies |
cyst/o- | bladder or sac; cystitis- inflamation of the bladder or sac |
cyte- | cell or chamber; cytology- studying cells |
-cytosis | increas in numbers; luecocytosis- WBC count increases |
dacryo- | tear; dacrydoctitis- inflamation of the tear duct |