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VT-IBC-02-2012
Terminology, Completing the Foundation, Chapter 4
Question | Answer |
---|---|
audi/o- | hearing |
bio- | life |
caus- | burn |
caut- | burn |
-clas- | break |
-clast | break |
duct- | lead |
-ectas- | dilate |
-edem- | swelling |
-esthes- | sensation |
gen/o- | producing |
-iatr/o- | treatment |
kin/e- | movement, motion |
kin/o- | movement, motion |
-lysis | breaking down |
-lys/o- | breaking down |
-lytic | breaking down |
morph/o- | form, structure, shape |
-op/ia | vision |
-ops/ia | vision |
-opsy | vision |
-path- | disease |
-pathy | disease |
-phage | eating |
phag/o- | eating |
-phas- | speech |
-phil | affinity, love for |
-plegia | paralysis |
-poiesis | formation, production |
schist/o- | split, cleft, divsion |
schiz/o- | split, cleft, division |
spasm/o- | spasm |
-stasis | standing still, stoppage |
troph/o- | nourishment, food |
brachy- | short |
brady- | slow |
brev/i- | short |
cry/o- | cold |
crypt/o | hidden |
dextr/o- | right, right side |
dipl/o- | double, twice |
dolich/o- | long |
glyc/o- | sugar, sweet |
gluc/o- | sugar, sweet |
heter/o- | other, different |
hom/eo- | same, alike |
hom/o- | same, alike |
hydr/o- | wet, water, fluid |
is/o- | equal, alike |
lept/o- | slender, small, thin |
lev/o- | left, to the left |
macr/o- | large |
mal- | ill, bad |
malac/o- | soft, softening |
meg/a- | large, oversized |
meg/alo- | large, oversized |
meg/aly- | large, oversized |
necr/o- | death |
olig/o- | few, little |
orth/o- | straight, normal, correct |
pachy- | thick |
pale/o- | old, primitive |
platy- | flat, wide |
ple/o- | more, many |
poikil/o- | irregular, varied |
-scler/o- | hardness |
sinistr/o- | left, to the left |
sten/o- | narrow, contracted |
stere/o- | solid, three-dimensional |
tachy- | rapid, fast |
tel/e- | distant, end |
tel/o- | distant, end |
therm/o- | heat |
xer/o- | dry |
aqua | water |
chol/e- | bile |
chol/o- | bile |
chyle | milky fluid, product of digestion |
chyl/o- | milky fluid, product of digestion |
dacry/o- | tears |
lacrima | tears |
galact/o- | milk |
lact/o- | milk |
hem/a- | blood |
hemat/o- | blood |
hem/o- | blood |
hidr/o- | sweat |
sudor | sweat |
lymph/o- | lymph |
mucus | mucus |
muco- | mucus |
myx/o- | mucus |
plasma | plasma |
ptyal/o- | saliva |
pus | pus |
py/o- | pus |
sangui- | blood, bloody |
sanguin/o- | blood, bloody |
serum | serum |
ser/o- | serum |
sial/o- | saliva, salivary glands |
ur/e- | urine or urea |
ur/ea- | urine or urea |
ur/eo- | urine or urea |
ur/ino- | urine or urea |
ur/o- | urine or urea |
adip/o- | fat |
amyl/o- | starch |
cerumen | earwax |
cerumin/o- | earwax |
collagen | collagen |
ele/o- | oil |
ole/o- | oil |
ferrum | iron |
ferr/o- | iron |
gluco- | sugar |
glyc/o- | sugar |
sacchar/o- | sugar |
sacchar/i- | sugar |
hal/o- | salt |
heme | iron based, piment part of hemoglobin |
hormone | hormone |
hyal/o- | glassy, translucent substance |
hyalin | glassy, translucent substance |
lip/o- | fat, fatty acids |
lipid | fat, fatty acids |
lith/o- | stone or calculus |
mel/i- | honey or sugar |
natrium | sodium |
petrous | stony hardness |
sal | salt |
sebum | sebum |
albus | white |
alba | white |
alb- | white |
chlor/o | green |
chloros | green |
chrom/o- | color |
chomat/o- | color |
cirrhos | orange-yellow |
cyan/o- | blue |
erythr/o- | red |
leuc/o- | white |
leuk/o- | white |
lutein | saffron yellow |
melan/o- | black |
photo- | light |
poli/o- | gray |
rhod/o- | red |
ruber | red, redness |
rubor | red, redness |
xanth/o- | yellow, yellowish |