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Chpter one, prt2
Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aden/o | Gland |
| arthro/o | joint |
| bi/o | life |
| carcin/o | cancerous,cancer |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cephal/o | head |
| cerebr/o | cerebrum, Largest part of your brain |
| cis/o | to cut |
| crin/o | to secrete (to form and give off) |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst ( sac containing fluid) |
| cyte/o | cell |
| derm/o | skin |
| electr/o | electricity |
| enchephal/o | brain |
| enter/o | intestines(usually small intestines) |
| erythr/o | red |
| gast/o | stomach |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| gnos/o | knowledge |
| gynec/o | woman, female |
| hemat/o | blood |
| hem/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| iatr/o | treatment, phtsician |
| leuk/o | white |
| log/o | study of |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| neur/o | nerve |
| onc/o | tumor |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| oste/o | bone |
| path/o | disease |
| ped/o | child |
| psych/o | mind |
| radi/o | x-ray |
| ren/o | kidney |
| rhin/o | nose |
| sacr/o | fleh |
| sect/o | to cut |
| thromb/o | clot. clotting |
| ur/o | urinary track,urine |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| -cyte | cell |
| -ectomy | excision,removal |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -genic | pertaining to, producing,produced by,or produced in |
| -globin | protien |
| -gram | record |
| i-ic,-ical | pertaining to |
| -ion | process |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflamation |
| -logy | process of study |
| -oma | tumor, mass swelling |
| -opsy | process of viewing |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal 9slight increase in numbers of white blood cells) |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -scope | instument to visually examine |
| -scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
| -sis | state of, condition |
| -tomy | process of cutting, incision |
| -y | process, condition |
| a-, an- | no,not, without |
| aut auto- | self,own |
| dia- | through complete |
| end- endo- | within |
| epi- | above,upon |
| ex- exo- | out,outside of, outward |
| hyper- | excessive,above,more than normal |
| hypo- | deficient,below,under,less than normal |
| in- | into, in |