Chapter 4 Combining Forms/suffixes/prefix Flashcards
1
Q
Carp/o
A
Wrist bones
2
Q
Cis/o
A
Cut
3
Q
Cost/o
A
Rib
4
Q
Cutane/o
A
Skin
5
Q
Dactyl/o
A
Fingers, toes
6
Q
Duct/o
A
Lead, carry
7
Q
Flex/o
A
Bend
8
Q
Furc/o
A
Branching
9
Q
Gloss/o
A
Tongue
10
Q
GLYC/o
A
Super
11
Q
Immun/o
A
Protection
12
Q
Morph/o
A
Shape/form
13
Q
Mort/o
A
Death
14
Q
Nat/I
A
Birth
15
Q
Norm/o
A
Rule, order
16
Q
Ox/o
A
Oxygen
17
Q
Pub/o
A
Pubis, pubic bone, anterior portion of the pelvic or hip bone
18
Q
Seps/o
A
Infection
19
Q
Somn/o
A
Sleep
20
Q
Son/o
A
Sound
21
Q
Tens/o
A
Force, strain, stretch
22
Q
The/o
A
Put, place
23
Q
Thel/o
Theli/o
A
Nipple
24
Q
Thyr/o
A
Thyroid gland; shield
25
Top/o
Please, position, location
26
Tox/o
Poison
27
Trache/o
Wind pipe, trachea
28
Urethr/o
Urethra
29
-crine
Secrete
30
-drome
Run
31
-fusion
Coming together, to pour
32
-gea
Substance that produces
33
-lapse
Slide, fall, sag
34
-lysis
Breakdown, destruction, separation
35
-meter
Measure
36
-mission
Send
37
-or
One who
38
-oxia
Oxygen
39
-partum
Birth labor
40
-phoria
To bear carry feeling
41
-physis
To grow
42
-plasia
Development formation growth
43
-plasm
Structure or formation
44
-Pnea
Breathing
45
-ptosis
Falling dropping prolapse
46
-rrhea
Flow, discharge
47
-stasis
Stopping, controlling
48
-trophy
Development, nourishment
49
-ptom
Happening occurrence
50
-blast
Embryonic, immature
51
A-,an-
No not without
52
Ab-
Away from
53
Ad-
Toward
54
Ana-
Up apart
55
Ante-
Before forward
56
Anti-
Against
57
Auto-
Self,own
58
Bi-
Two, life
59
Brady-
Slow
60
Cata-
Dial
61
Con-
With together
62
Contra-
Against, opposite
63
De-
Down, lack of
64
Dia-
Through complete
65
Dys-
Bad painful difficult abnormal
66
Ec-
Out outside
67
Endo-
In within
68
Epi-
Upon on above
69
Eu-
Good normal
70
Ex-
Out outside
71
Hemi-
Half
72
Hyper-
Excessive above
73
Hypo-
Deficient under
74
In-
Not
75
In-
Into within
76
Infra-
Beneath under
77
Inter-
Between
78
Intra-
In within into
79
Macro-
Large
80
Mal-
Bad
81
Meta-
Beyond change
82
Micro-
Small
83
Neo-
New
84
Pan-
All
85
Para-
Abnormal beside near
86
Per-
Through
87
Peri-
Surrounding
88
Poly-
Many, much
89
Post-
After behind
90
Pre-
Before in front of
91
Pro-
Before forward
92
Pros-
Before forward
93
Re-
Back again
94
Retro-
Behind backward
95
Sub-
Under
96
Supra-
Above upper
97
Syn-
| Sym-
Together with
98
Tachy-
Fast
99
Trans-
Across through
100
Ultra-
Beyond excess
101
Uni-
One
102
Antigen
A substance usually foreign to the body that stimulates the production of antibodies
103
Antibodies
Protein substances made by white blood cells in response to the presence of foreign antigens
104
Dyspnea
Painful breathing
105
Adductor
A muscle that draws a limb toward the body
106
Rh condition
In antigen antibody condition that develops when there is a difference in rH blood factor between that of the pregnant mother RH negative and the and that of the fetus RH positive
107
Leukocytes
Type of cell where antibodies are made
108
Congenital anomaly
And irregularity in a structure or organ that an infant is born with
109
Recombinant DNA
Taking a gene from one organism and inserting it into the DNA of another organism
110
Syndrome
A group of signs or symptoms that commonly occur together and indicate a particular disease or abnormal condition
