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100 Mas
Penta - Retina
| 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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