Ch. 1 Word Parts Flashcards
(67 cards)
1
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Proxim/O
A
near;close
2
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Poster/O
A
back;behind
3
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Path/O
• what do pathogens cause?
A
disease
4
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Neur/O
•nervous
A
nerve
5
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My/O
•ohh myy 👀💪🏼
A
muscle
6
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Medi/O
A
middle
7
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Log/O
•logically 🧐💭
A
study
8
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Lip/O
A
fat
9
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Later/O
A
Side
10
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-tomy
A
process of cutting; incision
11
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-um
A
structure; tissue; thing
12
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-stomy
A
surgical opening
13
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-plasty
A
surgical repair
14
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-pathy
A
disease
15
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-osis
A
abnormal condition
16
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-oma
A
tumor; mass
17
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-megaly
•mega
A
enlargement
18
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-logy
A
study of
19
Q
Sarc/O
A
flesh; connective tissue
20
Q
-logist
A
specialist
(one who studies)
21
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-itis
•i inflammation
A
inflammation
22
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-ine
A
a substance (noun) pertaining to (adjective)
23
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-gen
•generations keep producing people 👨👩👧👦
A
substance that produces
24
Q
-ia
A
condition
25
-emia
blood condition
26
-ectomy
surgical removal; excision
27
-cyte
cell
28
-algia
pain
29
-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -iac, -ial, -ic, -ical, -ior
pertaining to
30
trans-
across
31
tachy-
fast
32
supra-
•sUP
above
33
sub-
•submarine
below; under
34
inter-
•in the middle
between
35
intra-
•within
within; into
36
peri-
around; surrounding
37
Super/O
•sUP
above
38
Thorac/O
chest
39
Ventr/O
belly side of the body; ventral aspect
40
Infer/O
below
41
Hepat/O
liver
42
Hist/O
tissue
43
Glyc/O
sugar; glucose
44
Gastr/O
stomach
45
Enter/O
intestines
(usually small)
46
Dors/O
back of body
47
Dist/O
far; distant
48
Cost/O
rib
49
Cyt/O
cell
50
Cervic/O
neck; cervix
51
Col/O, Colon/O
large intestine; colon
52
Cephal/O
head
53
Caud/O
tail
54
Cardi/O
heart
55
Bi/O
•think of biology, the study of _______.
life
56
Arthr/O
joint
57
Anther/O
front
58
epi-
on; over; upon
59
hypo-
•po (below)
below; below normal; deficient
60
hyper-
•hy (high)
above; above normal; excessive
61
endo-
in; within
62
brady-
slow
63
anti-
against
64
bi-
two; both
65
a-, an-
not; without
66
ante-
before
67
Viscer/O
internal organs
