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Language of Medicine
Chapter2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| adip/o | fat |
| anter/o | front |
| bol/o | to cast (throw) |
| cervic/o | neck 9f the body or of the uterus) |
| chondr/o | cartilage (type of connective tissue) |
| chrom/o | color |
| coccyg/o | coccyx (tailbone) |
| crani/o | skull |
| cyt/o | cell |
| dist/o | far, distant |
| dors/o | back portion of the body |
| hist/o | tissue |
| ilil/o | ilium (part of the pelvic bone) |
| inguin/o | groin |
| kary/o | nucleus |
| later/o | side |
| lumb/o | Lower back (side and back between the ribs and the pelvis) |
| medi/o | middle |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| pelv/i | pelvis, hip region |
| poster/o | back, behind |
| proxim/o | nearest |
| sacr/o | sacrum |
| sarc/o | flesh |
| spin/o | spine. backbone |
| thel/o, theli/o | nipple |
| thorac/o | chest |
| trache/o | trachea, windpipe |
| umbilic/o | navel, umbilicus |
| ventr/o | belly side of the body |
| veterbr/o | vertebra (e) backbone (s) |
| viscer/o | internal organ |
| Ana- | up |
| cata- | down |
| epi- | above |
| hypo- | below |
| inter- | between |
| meta | change |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| ectomy | excision, removal, resection |
| -iac | pertaining to |
| -ior | pertaining to |
| -ism | process, condition |
| -oma | tumor, mass, collection of fluid |
| -ose | pertaining to, full of |
| -plasm | formation |
| -somes | bodies |
| -tomy | incision, cutting into |
| -type | picture classification |
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