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Chapter 1
Indruction to medical language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Arthr/o | joint |
| 2. Cardi/o | heart |
| 3. enter/o | small intestine |
| 4. gastr/o | stomach |
| 5.hepat/o | liver |
| 6. neur/o | nerve |
| 7. hem/o | blood |
| 8. my/o | muscle |
| 9.angl/o | vessel ( most common blood vessels but can refer to others ) |
| 10. derm/o | skin |
| 11. Pneum/o | lung |
| 12.gen/o | creation, cause |
| 13. hydr/o | water |
| 14. morph/o | change |
| 15. myc/o | fungus |
| 16. necr/o | death |
| 17. orth/o | straight |
| 18. path/o | suffering, disease |
| 19. phag/o | eat |
| 20. plas/o | formation |
| 21. py/o | pus |
| 22. scler/o | hard |
| 23. sten/o | narrowing |
| 24. troph/o | nourishment, development |
| 25 xen/o | foreign |
| 26.lum | tissue, structure |
| 27.icle | small |
| 28.algia | pain |
| 29. cele | hernia |
| 30. emia | blood condition |