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Question | Answer |
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kinesi/o | movement |
kyph/o | hump |
lacrim/o | tear |
lact/o | milk |
limin/o | lamina (a thin plate, scale, or layer) |
laryng/o | larynx |
lob/o | lobe |
lord/o | curve |
lumb/o | lumbar (lower back) |
lute/o | yellow |
lymphaden/o | lymph gland |
mamm/o | breast |
mandibul/o | mandible (lower jawbone) |
mast/o | breast |
maxill/o | maxilla (upper jawbone) |
meat/o | meatus (an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant) |
men/o | menstruation, month |
mening/o, meningi/o | meninges |
menisc/o, menisci/o | meniscus (a disk of cartilage between the articulating ends of the bones in a joint) |
ment | mind |
metacarp/o | metacarpals (hand) |
metatars/o | metatarsals (foot) |
metr/o | uterus, measure |
metr/i | uterus |
mon/o | one |
muc/o | mucus |
my/o, muscul/o | muscle |
myc/o | fungus |
myel/o | bone marrow, spinal cord |
myring/o | ear drum |
myx/o | mucus |
nas/o | nose |
nat/a, nat/i | birth |
natr/o | sodium |
necr/o | death |
nephr/o | kidney |
neur/o | nerve |
noct/i | night |
ocul/o | eye |
olecran/o | olecranon (elbow) |
olig/o | scant, few |
onych/o | nail |
oo/o | egg |
oophor/o | ovary |
ophthalm/o | eye |
opt/o | eye, vision |
optic/o | eye |
orchi/i, orch/o, orchi/o, orchid/o | testicle |
orth/o | straight |
ot/o | ear |
ov/o | egg |
ovari/o | ovary |
ovul/o | ovulation |
ox/i, ox/o | oxygen |
oxy/o | oxygen |
oxy/o | oxygen |
pachy/o | thick |
palat/o | palate |
palpebr/o | eyelid |
pancreat/o | pancreas |
papill/o | optic nerve |
patell/o | patella (kneecap) |
pelv/i | pelvis (hip) |
pericardi/o | pericardium (the membranous sac enclosing the heart) |
perine/o | perineum (the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male) |
petr/o | stone |
phac/o | eye lens |
phak/o | eye lens |
phalang/o | phalanges (finger or toe) |
pharyng/o | pharynx |
phas/o | speech |
phleb/o | vein |
phren/o | mind, diaphragm |
phys/o | growing |
pil/o | hair |
pituitar/o | pituitary gland |
pleur/o | pleura (a delicate serous membrane investing each lung in mammals and folded back as a lining of the corresponding side of the thorax) |
pneumat/o | lung/air |
pneumon/o | lung/air |
poli/o | gray matter |
polyp/o | polyp |
pont/o | pons (Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum) |
pub/o | pubis |
pulmon/o | lung |
pupill/o | pupil |
py/o | pus |
pyel/o | renal pelvis (a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter) |
pylor/o | pylorus (the opening between the stomach and the duodenum) |
rachi/o | spine |
radic/o, radicul/o | nerve root |
ren/o | kidney |
retin/o | retina |
rhin/o | nose |
rhiz/o | nerve root |
rhytid/o | wrinkle |
rube/o | red |
sacr/o | sacrum |
salping/o | uterine tube, fallopian tube |
scapul/o | scapula (shoulder) |
scler/o | sclera (a dense, white, fibrous membrane that, with the cornea, forms the external covering of the eyeball) |
scoli/o | bent |
seb/o | sebum/oil |
semin/i | semen |
sept/o | septum (a dividing wall, membrane, or the like, in a plant or animal structure) |
sigmoid/o | sigmoid colon |
somat/o | body |
son/o | sound |
sperm/o, spermat/o | sperm |
sphygm/o | pulse |
spir/o | breath |
splen/o | spleen |
spondyl/o | vertebra |
staped/o | middle ear, stapes |
staphyl/o | clusters |
ster/o, stere/o | solid, having three dimensions |
stern/o | sternum (breast bone) |
strept/o | twisted chain |
synovi/o | synovial joint membrane |
tars/o | tarsal (ankle) |
ten/o | tendon |
tend/o, tendin/o | tendon (connective tissue) |
test/o | testicle |
thorac/o | thorax (chest) |
thromb/o | clot |
thym/o | thymus gland |
thyr/o, thyroid/o | thyroid gland |
tibi/o | shin bone |
toc/o | childbirth |
tonsill/o | tonsil |
top/o | place |
tox/o, toxic/o | poison |
trache/o | trachea |
trich/o | hair |
tympan/o | eardrum |
uln/o | ulna (lower arm bone) |
ungu/o | nail |
ur/o | urine |
ureter/o | ureter |
urethr/o | urethra |
urin/o | urine |
uter/o | uterus |
uve/o | uvea (the vascular middle layer of the eye constituting the iris, ciliary body, and choroid) |
valv/o, valvul/o | valve |
vas/o, vascul/o | vessel |
ven/o | vein |
ventricul/o | ventricle |
vertebr/o | vertebra |
vesic/o | bladder |
vesicul/o | seminal vesicles (either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation) |
vitre/o | glass/glassy |
vulv/o | vulva |
xer/o | dry |
xanth/o | yellow |
osche/o | relating to the scrotum |