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Chabner12-Ch04all
Chabner, Language of Medicine 12th Ed, Chapter 04 - All
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carp/o | wrist bones (carpals) |
| cis/o | to cut |
| cost/o | rib |
| cutane/o | skin |
| dactyl/o | fingers; toes |
| duct/o | to lead, carry |
| flex/o | bend |
| furc/o | forking; branching |
| gloss/o | tongue |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| immun/o | immune; protection; safe |
| morph/o | shape; form |
| mort/o | death |
| nat/i | birth |
| norm/o | rule; order |
| ox/o | oxygen |
| pub/o | pubis (anterior part of hip bone) |
| seps/o | infection |
| somn/o | sleep |
| son/o | sound |
| tens/o | force, strain, stretch |
| the/o | put; place |
| thel/o | nipple |
| theli/o | nipple |
| thyr/o | thyroid gland; shield |
| top/o | place; position; location |
| tox/o | poison |
| trache/o | trachea (windpipe) |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| -crine | secrete; separate |
| -drome | to run |
| -fusion | to pour; to come together |
| -gen | substance that produces |
| -lapse | slide, fall, sag |
| -lysis | breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening |
| -meter | measure |
| -mission | send |
| -or | one who |
| -oxia | oxygen |
| -partum | birth; labour |
| -phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | development; formation; growth |
| -plasm | formation; structure |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -ptom | happening, occurence |
| -ptosis | falling; drooping; prolapse |
| -rrhea | flow; discharge |
| -stasis | stopping; controlling; placing |
| -trophy | nourishment; development (condition of) |
| a- | no; not; without |
| an- | no; not; without |
| ab- | away from |
| ad- | toward |
| ana- | up; apart; backward; again; anew |
| ante- | before; forward |
| anti- | against |
| auto- | self, own |
| bi- | two |
| brady- | slow |
| cata- | down |
| con- | together, with |
| contra- | against; opposite |
| de- | lack of; down; less; removal of |
| dia- | complete; through |
| dys- | bad; painful; difficult; abnormal |
| ec- | out; outside |
| endo- | in; within |
| epi- | above; upon; on |
| eu- | good; normal; true |
| ex- | out; away from |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | above; excessive |
| hypo- | deficient; below; under; less than normal |
| in- | in; into; not |
| infra- | below; inferior to; beneath |
| inter- | between |
| macro- | large |
| mal- | bad |
| meta- | change; beyond |
| micro- | small |
| neo- | new |
| pan- | all |
| para- | near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of |
| per- | through |
| peri- | surrounding |
| poly- | many; much; increased |
| post- | after; behind |
| pre- | before; in front of |
| pro- | before; forward |
| pros- | before; forward |
| re- | back; again; backward |
| retro- | behind; back; backward |
| sub- | under; below |
| supra- | above, upper |
| syn- | together; with |
| tachy- | fast |
| trans- | across; through |
| ultra- | beyond; excess |
| uni- | one |
| antigen | foreign substance that stimulates production of antibodies |
| antibody | protein substance made by white blood cells |
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