Terms Flashcards
(77 cards)
1
Q
root
A
foundation of term
2
Q
suffix
A
word ending
3
Q
prefix
A
word beginning
4
Q
combining vowel
A
vowel (usually o) that links the root to the suffix or the root to another root and aids pronunciation
5
Q
combining form
A
of the root combination and the combining vowel
6
Q
cyt/o
A
cell
7
Q
derm/o or dermat/o
A
skin
8
Q
electr/o
A
electricity
9
Q
encephal/o
A
brain
10
Q
enter/o
A
intestines
11
Q
erythr/o
A
red
12
Q
gastr/o
A
stomach
13
Q
gnos/o
A
knowledge
14
Q
glyc/o
A
sugar
15
Q
gynec/o
A
woman/female
16
Q
hemat/o or hem/o
A
blood
17
Q
iatr/o
A
treatment
18
Q
leuk/o
A
white
19
Q
log/o
A
study of
20
Q
nephr/o
A
kidney
21
Q
neur/o
A
nerve
22
Q
hepat/o
A
liver
23
Q
iatr/
A
treatment, physician
24
Q
onc/o
A
tumor
25
ophthalm/o
eye
26
oste/o
bone
27
path/o
disease
28
ped/o
child
29
psych/o
mind
30
radi/o
x-rays
31
ren/o
kidney
32
rhin/o
nose
33
sarc/o
flesh
34
sect/o
to cut
35
thromb/o
clot, clotting
36
ur/o
urinary tract, urine
37
-emia
blood condition
38
-genic
produced by or in
39
-globin
protein
40
-gram
record
41
-ic, ical
pertaining to
42
-ion
process
43
-ist
specialist
44
-itis
inflammation
45
-logy
process of study
46
-oma
tumor, mass, swelling
47
-opsy
process of viewing
48
-osis
condition, usually abnormal
49
-pathy
disease condtion
50
-scope
instrument to visually examine
51
-scopy
process of visually examining (with an endoscope)
52
-sis
state of, condition
53
-tomy
process of cutting
54
-y
process, condition
55
aut-, auto
self, own
56
dia-
through, complete
57
end-, endo-
within
58
epi-
above, upon
59
ex-
out
60
exo-
outside of, outward
61
hyper-
excessive, above, more
62
hypo-
deficient, below, under, less
63
in-
into, in
64
peri-
surrounding, around
65
pro-
before, forward
66
per-
through
67
peri-
surrounding
68
poly-
many, much
69
post-
after, behind
70
pre-
before, in front of
71
pro-
before, forward
72
Adductor
means a muscle that draws a limb TOWARD the body
73
Dyspnea
painful breathing
74
tachy-
fast
75
trans-
across, through
76
ultra-
beyond, excess
77
uni-
one
