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Medical Terminology
Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| disease | -pathy |
| producing,originating, causing | -genic |
| epithelium | epitheli/o |
| fiber | fibr/o |
| muscle | my/o |
| flesh,connective tissue | sarc/o |
| internal organs | viscer/o |
| control, stop, standing | -stasis |
| study of | -logy |
| one who studies and treats (specialist, physician) | -logist |
| tissue | hist/o |
| fat | lip/o |
| malignant tumor | -sarcoma |
| new | neo- |
| red | erythr/o |
| black | melan/o |
| above,excessive | hyper- |
| abnormal condition | -osis |
| white | leuk/o |
| green | chlor/o |
| rod-shaped, striated | rhabd/o |
| smooth | lei/o |
| disease | path/o |
| cell | -cyte |
| organ | organ/o |
| body | somat/o |
| nerve | neur/o |
| cause (of disease) | eti/o |
| cell | cyt/o |
| tumor.swelling | -oma |
| through, complete | dia- |
| knowledge | gno/o |
| growth, substance, formation | -plasm |
| substance or agent that produces or causes | -gen |
| condition of formation, development, growth | -plasia |
| after, beyond, change | meta- |
| system | system/o |
| nucleus | kary/o |
| gland | aden/o |
| painful, abnormal, difficult, labored | dys- |
| color | chrom/o |
| tumor, mass | onc/o |
| yellow | xanth/o |
| cancer | cancer/o, carcin/o |
| pertaining to | -al, -ic, -ous |
| blue | cyan/o |
| before | pro- |
| resembling | -oid |
| physician, medicine (treatment) | iatr/o |
| below,incomplete, deficient | hypo- |
| state of | -sis |