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nicks medical stuff
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adip/o | fat |
| anter/o | front |
| bol/o | throw |
| chrondro/o | cartilage |
| hist/o | tissue |
| inguin/o | groin |
| kary/o | nuclues |
| sacr/o | flesh |
| ana- | up |
| cata- | down |
| pleural cavity | space surrounding each lung |
| mediastinum | centrally located area outside of and between the lungs |
| peritoneum | double folded membrane surrounding the abdominal cavity |
| acr/o | extremities |
| acu/o | sudden (acute) |
| angi/o | vessel |
| arthr/o | joint |
| axill/o | armpit |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| col/o | colon |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder |
| encephalo/o | brain |
| erythr/o | red |
| hepat/o | liver |
| inguin/o | groin |
| isch/o | to hold back |
| lapar/o | abdomen |
| leuk/o | white |
| mamm/o | brest |
| mast/o | breast |
| muc/o | mucus |
| my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow (context) |
| necr/o | death |
| neutr/o | neutrophil (white blood cell) |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| ot/o | ear |
| peritone/o | peritoneum |
| phag/o | to eat, swallow |
| phleb/o | vein |
| plas/o | formation, development |
| rect/o | rectum |
| sarc/o | flesh |
| splen/o | spleen |
| staphyl/o | clusters |
| strept/o | twisted chains |
| -cele | hernia |
| -centesis | surgical procedure ot remove fluid |
| -coccus | berry shaped bacteria |
| -cyte | cell |
| -dynia | pain |
| -ectomy | removal |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genesis | beginning |
| -gram | record |
| -graph | instrument for recording |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -itis | inflammation |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdwon, destruction, separation |
| -malacia | softening |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor |
| -opsy | to view |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phobia | fear |
| plasia | development, formation, growth |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -ptosis | drooping, sagging, prolapse |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | instrument for visual examination |
| -scopy | process of visual examination |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -stomy | opening ot form a mouth (stoma) |
| -tomy | incision, cutting into |
| -trophy | development, nourishment |
| -er | one who does something (geographer) |
| -ia | condition |
| -ist | specialist |
| -ole, ule | little, small |
| -um, -ium | structure, tissue |
| -us | structure, substance |
| -y | condition, process |
| -ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal | pertaining to |
| -genic | pertaining to producing, produced by, or in |
| -ic, -ical | pertaining to |
| -oid | resembling |
| -ose | pertaining to, full of |
| -ous, -tic | pertaining to |
| carp/o | wrist bones |
| cib/o | meals |
| cis/o | to cut |
| cost/o | rib |
| cutane/o | skin |
| dactyl/o | dingers, toes |
| duct/o | to lead, carry |
| flex/o | to bend |
| furc/o | forking, branching |
| gloss/o | tongue |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| immuno/o | protection |
| morph/o | shape, form |
| mort/o | death |
| nati/i | birth |
| nect/o | to bind, tie, connect |
| norm/o | rule, order |
| ox/o | oxygen |
| pub/o | pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone |
| seps/o | infection |
| somn/o | sleep |
| son/o | sound |
| the/o | to put, place |
| thel/o | nipple |
| thyr/o | thyroid gland |
| top.o | place, position, location |
| tox/o | poison |
| trache/o | windpipe, treache |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| -blast | embryonic, immature |
| -crine | to secrete |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -drome | to run |
| -fusion | coming together; to pour |
| -gen | substance that produces |
| -lape | to side, fall, sag |
| -lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
| -mter | to measure |
| -mission | to send |
| -or | one who |
| -partum | birth, labor |
| -phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | development, formation |
| -plasm | structure or formation |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -stasis | stop, control |
| -trophy | nourishment, development |
| ab- | away from (b faces away from a) |
| ad- | toward (d faces towards a) |
| ana- | up, apart |
| ante- | before, forward |
| cata- | down |
| con- | with, together |
| dia- | through, complete |
| dys- | bad, painful, abnormal |
| ec-, ecto- | out, outside |
| en-, endo- | in, within |
| epi- | upon, on, above |
| eu- | good, normal |
| ex- | out, away from (exophthalmos - protrusion of the eye) |
| in- | not/in, within |
| infra- | beneath |
| intra- | within |
| mal- | bad |
| meta- | beyond, change |
| micro- | small |
| neo- | new |
| pan- | all |
| para- | abnormal, beside, near |
| per- | through |
| peri- | surrounding |
| poly- | many, much |
| re- | back, again |
| retro- | behind, backward |
| sub- | under |
| supra- | above, upper |
| syn-,sym- | together, with |
| trans- | across, through |
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