Chap 10, Nervous System, Terminology, Combining Forms, Prefixes, Suffixes

Question 1

alges/o, -algesia

Answer 1

excessive sensitivity to pain

Question 2

angi/o

Answer 2

vessel (blood)

Question 3

caus/o

Answer 3

burning

Question 4

cephal/o

Answer 4

head

Question 5

cerebell/o

Answer 5

cerebellum

Question 6

cerebr/o

Answer 6

cerebrum

Question 7

comat/o

Answer 7

deep sleep (coma)

Question 8

crani/o

Answer 8

skull

Question 9

cry/o

Answer 9

cold

Question 10

dur/o

Answer 10

dura mater

Question 11

encephal/o

Answer 11

brain

Question 12

esthesi/o

Answer 12

feeling, nervous sensation

Question 13

gli/o

Answer 13

glio cells

Question 14

hydr/o

Answer 14

water

Question 15

kines/o, kinesi/o

Answer 15

movement

Question 16

lept/o

Answer 16

thin, slender

Question 17

lex/o

Answer 17

word, phrase

Question 18

mening/o, meningi/o

Answer 18

membranes, meninges

Question 19

my/o

Answer 19

muscle

Question 20

myel/o

Answer 20

spinal cord or bone marrow

Question 21

narc/o

Answer 21

numbness, stupor, sleep

Question 22

neur/o

Answer 22

nerve

Question 23

olig/o

Answer 23

scanty

Question 24

pont/o

Answer 24

pons

Question 25

radicul/o

Answer 25

nerve root of spinal nerves

Question 26

spin/o

Answer 26

spine, backbone

Question 27

syncop/o

Answer 27

to cut off, cut short, faint

Question 28

tax/o

Answer 28

order, coordination

Question 29

thalam/o

Answer 29

thalamus

Question 30

thec/o

Answer 30

sheath (refers to the meninges)

Question 31

troph/o

Answer 31

nourishment, development

Question 32

vag/o

Answer 32

vagus nerve (10th cranial nerve)

Question 33

a-, an-

Answer 33

no, not, without

Question 34

dys-

Answer 34

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

Question 35

epi-

Answer 35

above, upon, on

Question 36

hemi-

Answer 36

half

Question 37

hyper-

Answer 37

above, excessive

Question 38

hypo-

Answer 38

deficient, below, under, less than normal

Question 39

intra-

Answer 39

within; into

Question 40

micro-

Answer 40

small

Question 41

para-

Answer 41

near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of

Question 42

polio-

Answer 42

gray matter (of brain or spinal cord)

Question 43

poly-

Answer 43

many; much; increased

Question 44

quadri-

Answer 44

four

Question 45

sub-

Answer 45

under; below

Question 46

-algesia

Answer 46

excessive sensitivity to pain

Question 47

-algia

Answer 47

pain

Question 48

-blast

Answer 48

embryonic; immature cell

Question 49

-cele

Answer 49

hernia

Question 50

-esthesia

Answer 50

feeling, nervous sensation

Question 51

-gram

Answer 51

record

Question 52

-graphy

Answer 52

process of recording

Question 53

-ine

Answer 53

pertaining to

Question 54

-itis

Answer 54

inflammation

Question 55

-kinesia, -kinesis

Answer 55

movement

Question 56

-kinetic

Answer 56

movement

Question 57

-lepsy

Answer 57

seizure

Question 58

-oma

Answer 58

tumor; mass; fluid collection

Question 59

-ose

Answer 59

full of; pertaining to; sugar

Question 60

-paresis

Answer 60

weakness

Question 61

-pathy

Answer 61

disease; emotion

Question 62

-phagia

Answer 62

condition of eating or swallowing

Question 63

-phasia

Answer 63

speech

Question 64

-plegia

Answer 64

paralysis; loss or impairment of the ability to move parts of the body

Question 65

-praxia

Answer 65

action

Question 66

-ptosis

Answer 66

falling; drooping; prolapse

Question 67

-sclerosis

Answer 67

hardening

Question 68

-sthenia

Answer 68

strength

Question 69

-tomy

Answer 69

process of cutting

Question 70

-trophy

Answer 70

nourishment; development; (condition of)