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Terminology
Terms---root words
Question | Answer |
---|---|
cardi/o | heart |
crin/o | to secrete |
esthesi/o | feeling or sensation |
gastr/o | stomach |
enter/o | intestines |
ger/a, ger/o, geront/o | elderly |
gynec/o | female |
immun/o | immune |
ne/o | new |
nat/o | birth |
neur/o | nerve |
obstetr/o | midwife |
onc/o | tumor |
ophthalm/o | eye |
orth/o | straight |
ped/o | child; or foot |
ot/o | ear |
laryng/o | larynx |
path/o | disease |
psych/o | mind |
radi/o | radiation or radius |
rheumat/o | rheumatism |
rhin/o | nose |
ur/o | urinary tract or urine |
aden/o | gland |
angi/o | vessel |
append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
bi/o | life or living |
blephar/o | eyelid |
cerebr/o, encephal/o | brain (cerebr/o sometimes means cerebrum) |
chir/o | hand |
col/o | colon or large instestine |
cutane/o, derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
faci/o | face |
hepat/o | liver |
mamm/o, mast/o | breast |
muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
oste/o | bone |
pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o | lungs (pneum/o sometimes means air or gas) |
tonsill/o | tonsil |
trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
vas/o | vessel (vas deferens--the excretory duct of the testicle) |
adip/o, lip/o | fat |
amyl/o | starch |
glyc/o | sugar |
hemat/o | blood |
lact/o | milk |
lith/o | stone |
muc/o | mucus |
prote/o, protein/o | protein |
pry/o | fire |
alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o, leuc/o | white |
chlor/o | green |
cyan/o | blue |
erythr/o | red |
melan/o | black |
xanth/o | yellow |
cyt/o | cell |
gen/o | beginning, origin |
gram/o | to record |
kinesi/o | movement |
leps/o | seizure |
lys/o | destruction, dissolving |
malac/o | soft, softening |
megal/o | large, enlarged |
metr/o (sometimes metr/i) | measure, uterine tissue |
phag/o | eat, ingest |
phas/o | speech |
pleg/o | paralysis |
schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o | split, cleft |
scler/o | hard |
scop/o | to examine, to view |
troph/o | nutrition |
aer/o | air |
blast/o | embryonic form |
cancer/o, carcin/o | cancer |
cephal/o | head |
cry/o | cold |
crypt/o | hidden |
dips/o | thirst |
electr/o | electricity |
fibr/o | fiber |
hist/o | tissue |
myc/o | fungus |
narc/o | stupor |
necr/o | dead |
optic/o, opt/o | vision |
phon/o | voice |
phot/o | light |
py/o | pus |
therm/o | heat |
top/o | position, place |
ech/o, son/o | sound |
fluor/o | emitting or reflection light |
tom/o | to cut |
algesi/o | sensitivity to pain |
chem/o | chemical |
cardi/o | heart |
crin/o | to secrete |
esthesi/o | feeling or sensation |
gastr/o | stomach |
enter/o | intestines |
ger/a, ger/o, geront/o | elderly |
gynec/o | female |
immun/o | immune |
ne/o | new |
nat/o | birth |
neur/o | nerve |
obstetr/o | midwife |
onc/o | tumor |
ophthalm/o | eye |
orth/o | straight |
ped/o | child; or foot |
ot/o | ear |
laryng/o | larynx |
path/o | disease |
psych/o | mind |
radi/o | radiation or radius |
rheumat/o | rheumatism |
rhin/o | nose |
ur/o | urinary tract or urine |
aden/o | gland |
angi/o, vas/o, vascul/o | vessel |
append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
bi/o | life or living |
blephar/o | eyelid |
cerebr/o, encephal/o | brain (cerebr/o sometimes means cerebrum) |
chir/o | hand |
col/o | colon or large instestine |
cutane/o, derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o | skin |
faci/o | face |
hepat/o | liver |
mamm/o, mast/o | breast |
muscul/o, my/o | muscle |
myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
oste/o | bone |
pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o | lungs (pneum/o sometimes means air or gas) |
tonsill/o | tonsil |
trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
vas/o | vessel (vas deferens--the excretory duct of the testicle) |
adip/o, lip/o | fat |
amyl/o | starch |
glyc/o | sugar |
hemat/o | blood |
lact/o | milk |
lith/o | stone |
muc/o | mucus |
prote/o, protein/o | protein |
pry/o | fire |
alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o, leuc/o | white |
chlor/o | green |
cyan/o | blue |
erythr/o | red |
melan/o | black |
xanth/o | yellow |
cyt/o | cell |
gen/o | beginning, origin |
gram/o | to record |
kinesi/o | movement |
leps/o | seizure |
lys/o | destruction, dissolving |
malac/o | soft, softening |
megal/o | large, enlarged |
metr/o (sometimes metr/i) | measure, uterine tissue |
phag/o | eat, ingest |
phas/o | speech |
pleg/o | paralysis |
schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o | split, cleft |
scler/o | hard |
scop/o | to examine, to view |
troph/o | nutrition |
aer/o | air |
blast/o | embryonic form |
cancer/o, carcin/o | cancer |
cephal/o | head |
cry/o | cold |
crypt/o | hidden |
dips/o | thirst |
electr/o | electricity |
fibr/o | fiber |
hist/o | tissue |
myc/o | fungus |
narc/o | stupor |
necr/o | dead |
optic/o, opt/o | vision |
phon/o | voice |
phot/o | light |
py/o | pus |
therm/o | heat |
top/o | position, place |
ech/o, son/o | sound |
fluor/o | emitting or reflection light |
tom/o | to cut |
algesi/o | sensitivity to pain |
chem/o | chemical |
pharmaceut/i, pharmac/o | drugs or medicine |
plast/o | repair |
therapeut/o | treatment |
tox/o | poison |
cyst/o | cyst, bladder, or sac |
acr/o | extremities (arms and legs) |
abdomin/o | abdomen |
caud/o | toward the tail or in an inferior direction |
dist/o | far or distant from the origin or point of attachment |
proxim/o | nearer the origin or point of attachment |
later/o | toward the side |
medi/o | middle |
dors/o | back, posterior |
ventr/o | belly side |
dactyl/o | digit (toes and fingers) |
lapar/o | abdominal wall |
omphal/o | umbilicus (navel) |
onych/o | nail |
pelv/i | pelvis |
periton/o | peritoneum |
som/a, somat/o | body |
dacry/o, lacrim/o | tear, tearing, or crying |
hidr/o | sweat or perspiration |
hydr/o | water |
sial/o | salvia |
coagul/o | coagulation |
ankyl/o | stiff |
arthr/o | articulation, joint |
home/o | sameness |
cirrh/o | orange-yellow |
bil/i, chol/e | bile |
spir/o | to breathe |
axill/o | axilla (armpit) |
erythemat/o | erythema or redness |
follicul/o | follicle |
ichthy/o | fish |
pil/o, trich/o | hair |
seps/o | infection |
ment/o, psych/o | mind |
dendr/o | tree |
aut/o | self |
xer/o | dry |
claustr/o | barrier or closed space |
pseud/o | false |