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nursing rootwords
nursing
| root word | meaning |
|---|---|
| aden/o | gland |
| angi/o | blood, lymph vessels |
| arteri/o | artery |
| arth/o | joint |
| ather/o | plaque |
| carcin/o | cancerous |
| cardi/o | heart |
| Chol/e | bile, gall |
| chondr/o | cartilage |
| Chrom/o | color |
| col/o | colon |
| colp/o | vagina |
| cyan/o | blue |
| cyst/o | bladder, sac of fluid |
| derm/a or derm/o | skin |
| encephal/o | brain |
| enter/o | intestine |
| episi/o | vulva |
| erythr/o | red |
| fasci/o | fascia |
| gasto/o | stomach |
| gynec/o | woman, female |
| hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| hist/o | tissue |
| hyster/o | uterus, womb |
| ile/o | ileum, distal portion of small intestine |
| ili/o | hip bone, ilium |
| immun/o | immune, portected, safe |
| laryng/o, | larynx |
| leuk/o | white |
| lip/o | fat, lipid |
| lith/o | stone, calculus |
| lymph/o | lymph |
| mamm/o | breast |
| mast/o | breast |
| melan/o | black, dark |
| men/o | menstration, menses |
| my/o | muscle |
| myel/o | spinal cord, bone marrow |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| neur/o | nerve |
| oculo/o | eye |
| onc/o | tumor |
| oophor/o ovari/o | ovary |
| orth/o oste/o | bone, straight |
| ot/o | ear |
| pharyng/o | pharynx |
| phleb/o | vein |
| pneum/o | lung |
| proct/o | rectum, anus |
| pulm/o | lung |
| ren/o | pertaining to kidney |
| rhin/o | nose |
| sarc/o | flesh, connective tissue |
| splen/o | spleen |
| ten/o, tendin/o | tendon |
| thorac/o | chect, thorax |
| tympan/o | eardrum, middle ear |
| vagin/o | vagina |
| ven/o | vein |
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ajlett
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