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Chapter 2
Combing forms, suffixes, prefixes, & terms
Term | Definition |
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abdomin/o | abdomen |
adip/o | fat |
anter/o | front |
bolo/o | to cast (throw) |
cervic/o | neck (of the body or uterus) |
chondr/o | cartilage |
chrom/o | color |
coccyg/o | tailbone |
crani/o | skull |
cyt/o | cell |
dist/o | far, distant |
dors/o | back |
hist/o | tissue |
ili/o | ilium |
inguin/o | groin |
kary/o | nucleus |
later/o | side |
lumb/o | back |
medi/o | middle |
nucle/o | nucleus |
pelv/i | pelvis |
poster/o | behind. back |
proxim/o | nearest |
sacr/o | sacrum |
sarc/o | muscle, flesh |
spin/o | spine, backbone |
thel/o, theli/o | nipple |
thorac/o | chest |
trache/o | trachea, windpipe |
umbilic/o | umbilicus, navel |
ventr/o | front of body, anterior |
vertebr/o | vertebra, backbone |
viscer/o | internal organs |
ana- | up |
cata- | down |
epi- | above |
hypo- | below, less than normal, deficient |
inter- | between |
meta- | change |
-eal | pertaining to |
-iac | pertaining to |
-ior | pertaining to |
-ism | process, condition |
-ose | pertaining to, full of |
-plasm | formation |
-somes | bodies |
-type | picture, classification |
abdominal | abdomen |
adipose | pertaining to fat; full of fat |
anterior | front of the body |
cervical | pertaining to the neck of the body or uterus |
chondroma | benign tumor in cartilage |
chondrosarcoma | malignant tumor in cartilage |
chromosomes | rod shaped structure in the nucleus containing DNA |