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MED104 ROOTS
MED104 word creation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| path/o | suffering disease |
| gen/o | generation cause creation |
| /o/ | combining vowel |
| tax/o | coordination order |
| angi/o vas/o vascul/o | vessel |
| myc/o | fungus |
| neur/o | nerve |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| hepat/o | liver |
| enter/o | intestines |
| my/o myos/o muscul/o | muscle |
| myel/o | spinal cord |
| por/o | pores porous |
| hem/o hemat/o | blood |
| derm/o dermat/o cutane/o | skin |
| pneum/o pneumon/o pulmon/o | lung |
| morph/o | change |
| squam/o | squamous tissue scaly |
| kerat/o | hard horny tissue cornea |
| scler/o | hard hardening sclera (white of the eye) |
| fibr/o | fiber fibrous tissue |
| sarc/o | flesh connective tissue |
| pachy/o | thick |
| crypt/o | secret hidden |
| necr/o | death |
| hydr/o | water |
| hidr/o | sweat |
| troph/o | nourishment development |
| xen/o | foreign |
| ankyl/o | stiff bent |
| tend/o ten/o tendin/o | tendon |
| ton/o | tone tension |
| cervic/o | neck |
| xer/o | dry |
| onych/o ungu/o | nail |
| adip/o lip/o steat/o | fat |
| splen/o | spleen |
| dactyl/o | digits fingers toes toes |
| phag/o | eat |
| pil/o trich/o | hair |
| seb/o sebace/o | sebum oil |
| py/o | pus |
| sten/o | narrow constricted |
| cry/o | cold freezing |
| erythr/o | red |
| leuk/o | white |
| melan/o | black dark |
| xanth/o | yellow |
| cyan/o | blue |
| alb/o | lack of skin pigmentation |
| ichthy/o | scaly "fish" |
| rhytid/o | wrinkle |
| crepit/o | crackling popping |
| ost/o oste/o | bone |
| crani/o | head skull |
| cervic/o | cervical spine |
| carp/o | wrist bones |
| cost/o | ribs |
| spondyl/o | vertebral column |
| lumb/o | lumbar lower back |
| brachi/o | arms |
| femor/o | femur |
| tibi/o | tibia shin bone |
| tars/o | foot ankle |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| arthr/o | joint |
| burs/o | bursa; small fluid-filled sac near the body's joints "golden sac" |
| cerebr/o encephal/o | brain |
| cerebell/o | cerebellum |
| lob/o | lobes of the brain |
| cephal/o | head |
| mening/o meningi/o | meninges; outer covering |
| dur/o | dura; tough outer layer |
| myel/o | spinal cord; bone marrow |
| esthesi/o | feeling sensation |
| phas/o | speech |
| phren/o psych/o | mind |
| somn/o somn/i hypn/o | sleep |
| gnosi/o | know |
| pros/o | face facial expressions |
| ton/ic | muscle stiffness increased muscle tone ton- tone ic- pertaining to |
| clon/ic clon/us | rapid twitching; violent action clon- rapid contraction us- (noun ending) |
| gangli/o | ganglion nerve bundle |
| embol- | blocker or foreign object |
| thromb/o | clot |
| astr/o | astrocyt; (star-shaped) glial cells |
| phon/o | response |
| caust/o | burning |
| phor/o | carry; carrying bad/negative emotional state |
| convuls/o | muscle contractions |
| pharmac/o | drug |
| trop/o | turn; act on |
| ocul/o opt/o ophthalm/o | eye |
| lacrim/o dacry/o | tears |
| blephar/o | eyelid |
| corne/o | cornea; clear surface in the middle of the eye |
| conjunctiv/o | conjunctiva |
| scler/o | sclera; white part of the eye |
| vitre/o | vitreous |
| cycl/o | eye muscles; ciliary body |
| retin/o | retina; deepest layer; electric signals sent to brain via optic nerve |
| ir/o irid/o | iris; colored area; controls pupil size |
| phac/o phak/o | lens |
| aur/o ot/o | ear |
| acous/o audi/o | sound |
| cerumin/o | earwax |
| salping/o | ear canal; tube-like structure |
| tympan/o myring/o | eardrum |
| mastoid/o | mastoid process; tiny bone protruding down behind ear |
| labyrinth/o | middle ear; aka - lobby |
| vestibul/o | vestibule; inner ear balance system |
| cochle/o | cochlea; bony shell filled with fluid and hair in the inner ear |
| scot/oma | blind spot; scot- dark oma- tumor, spot |
| presby/o | old age; |
| pteryg/o | wing |
| aer/o | air |
| aden/o | gland |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| lith/o | stone; calculus |
| proct/o | rectum |
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