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CH 3 LOM
Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Coccyx | Tailbone |
| Pharnyx | Throat |
| Phalanx | Finger or Toe |
| To make combining forms for parts of the body ending in X | substitue g for x |
| Words ending in -us commonly form their pleural by dropping -us and adding | -i |
| nucleus (pleural) | nuclei |
| bonchus (pleural) | bronchi |
| thrombus (pleural) | thrombi |
| adomin/o | abdominal |
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | vessel |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arthr/o | joint |
| axill/o | armpit |
| bronch/o | bronchial tubes |
| caran/o | cancer |
| chem/o | chemical |
| chron/o | time |
| col/o | colon (lg. intestine) |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder |
| enncephal/o | brain |
| mamm/o | breast |
| mast/o | breast |
| my/o | muscle |
| necr/o | death |
| neur/o | nerves |
| oste/o | bone |
| ot/o | ear |
| path/o | disease |
| pneumon/o | lungs |
| pulmon/o | lungs |
| rect/o | rectum |
| ren/o | kidney |
| thromb/o | clot |
| trache/o | trachea |
| ven/o | vein |
| -algia | pain |
| -centesis | surgical puncture to remove fluid |
| -ectomy | excission or removal |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genesis | condition of, producing, forming |
| -gram | record |
| -itis | inflammation of |
| -logy | study of |
| -opsy | to view |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -graph | process of recording |
| -lysis | breakdown, destruction |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor, mass |
| -phobia | fear |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -sclerosis | hardening |
| -scope | instrument used for visual exam |
| -scopy | process of visual exam |
| -stasis | stopping, controlling |
| -er | one who |
| -ia | condition |
| -ist | condition |
| -y | specialist |
| -stomy | opening to form a mouth (stoma) |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -tomy | incision, to cut into |
| hernia | protrusion of organ or muscular wall of an organ through the cavity that contains it |
| Hiatal | stomach into diaphragm |
| Inguinal | intestines into lower abdomen |
| Rectocele | Rectum into vagina |
| Omphalocele | Infant (intestines out of belly button) |
| Cystocele | Bladder into vagina |
| Anemia | no blood |
| Aplastic | severe type, bone marrow fails to produce |
| a | no |
| plas/o | formation |
Created by:
bglanden
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