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Ch 14 Nervous System
Prefixes, suffixes, root words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a- an- | away from; without; not |
| -encephaly | condition of the brain |
| phas/o- | speech |
| express/o- | communicative |
| -ive | pertaining to |
| recept/o- | receive |
| glob/o- | globe |
| -al | pertaining to |
| dys- | bad; painful; difficult; abnormal |
| -ia | condition; state; thing |
| arteri/o- | artery |
| ven/o- | vein |
| -ous | pertaining to |
| mal- | bad |
| format/o- | structure; arrangement |
| -ion | action; condition |
| malign/o- | cancer |
| -ant | pertaining to |
| intra- | within |
| crani/o- | skull |
| cephal/o- | head |
| alg/o- | pain |
| cerebr/o- | cerebrum (largest part of the brain) |
| astr/o- | starlike structure |
| cyt/o- | cell |
| -oma | tumor; mass |
| ependym/o- | cellular lining |
| gli/o- (glue cells) | cells that support |
| blast/o- | immature; embryonic |
| lymph/o- | lymph; lymphatic system |
| meningi/o- | meninges |
| olig/o- | scanty; few |
| dendr/o- | branching structure |
| vascul/o- | blood vessel |
| infarct/o- | area of dead tissue |
| isch/o- | keep back; block |
| -emia | condition or substance in the blood |
| hemi- | one half |
| -paresis | condition of weakness |
| pleg/o- | paralysis |
| comat/o- | unconsciousness |
| -ose | full of |
| concuss/o- | violent shaking and jarring |
| contus/o- | bruising |
| de- | reversal of; without |
| ment/o- | mind; chin |
| sen/o- | old age |
| -ile | pertaining to |
| fibrill/o- | muscle fiber; nerve fiber |
| -ary | pertaining to |
| pre- | before; in front of |
| retard/o- | slow down; delay |
| lex/o- | word |
| phot/o- | light |
| phob/o- | fear; avoidance |
| convuls/o- epilept/o- ict/o- | seizure |
| post- | after; behind |
| ton/o- (tens/o-) | tone; pressure |
| clon/o- | rapid contracting and relaxing |
| psych/o- | mind |
| mot/o- kines/o- | movement |
| foc/o- | point of activity |
| hemat/o- | blood |
| ventricul/o- | ventricle (lower heart chamber; chamber in the brain) |
| sub- | below; underneath; less than |
| dur/o- | dura mater |
| hydr/o- | water; fluid |
| -cephalus | head |
| nuch/o- | neck |
| narc/o- | stupor; sleep |
| syncop/o- | fainting |
| -cele | hernia |
| myel/o- | bone marrow; spinal cord; myelin |
| radicul/o- rhiz/o- | spinal nerve root |
| herni/o- | hernia |
| trans- | across; through |
| sect/o- | to cut |
| para- | beside; apart from; two parts of a pair; abnormal |
| -lysis | breaking; destroying; separating |
| spast/o- | spasm |
| my/o- | muscle |
| troph/o- | development; nourishment |
| scler/o- | hard; sclera (white of the eye) |
| carp/o- | wrist |
| hyper- | above; more than normal |
| gemin/o- | set or group |
| caus/o- | burning |
| alg/o- | pain |
| poly- | many; much |
| fibr/o- | fiber |
| -omatosis | abnormal condition of multiple tumors or masses |
| -pathy | disease; suffering |
| diabet/o- | diabetes |
| angi/o- | blood vessel; lymphatic vessel |
| -graphy | process of recording |
| -gram | record or picture |
| axi/o- | axis |
| tom/o- | cut; slice; layer |
| magnet/o- | magnet |
| emiss/o- | to send out |
| electr/o- | electricity |
| potent/o- | being capable of doing |
| somat/o- | body |
| sens/o- | sensation |
| conduct/o- | carrying; conveying |
| somn/o- | sleep |
| lumb/o- | lower back; area between ribs and pelvis |
| punct/o- | hole; perforation |
| man/o- | thin; frenzy |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| tract/o- | pulling |
| cutane/o- | skin |
| bi/o- | life; living organisms; living tissue |
| -opsy | process of viewing |
| excis/o- | to cut out |
| endo- | innermost; within |
| -ectomy | surgical excision |
| -tomy | surgical incision |
| disk/o- | disk |
| lamin/o- | lamina (flat area of the vertebra) |
| stere/o- | three dimensions |
| tact/o- | touch |
| surg/o- | surgery |
| peritone/o- | peritoneum |
| alges/o- | sensation of pain |
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