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Chapter 2
Combing forms, suffixes, prefixes, & terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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