word parts Flashcards
(154 cards)
1
Q
bronch/o
A
bronchial tube OR bronchus
2
Q
laryng/o
A
larynx OR throat
3
Q
nas/o
A
nose
4
Q
ox/i
-ox/o
A
oxygen
5
Q
pharyng/o
A
throat OR pharynx
6
Q
phon/o
A
sound or voice
7
Q
pleur/o
A
pleura
8
Q
-pnea
A
breathing
9
Q
pneum/o
A
lung
10
Q
pulm/o
-pulmon/o
A
lung
11
Q
sinus/o
A
sinus
12
Q
somn/o
A
sleep
13
Q
spir/o
A
to breathe
14
Q
thorac/o
A
chest
15
Q
trache/o
A
windpipe
-trachea
16
Q
ot/o
A
ear
17
Q
-spasm
A
involuntary contraction
18
Q
-dynia
A
pain
19
Q
-thorax
A
chest
20
Q
atel
A
incomplete
21
Q
-ectasis
A
stretching or enlargement
22
Q
coni
A
dust
23
Q
asbest
A
asbestos
24
Q
-ptysis
A
spitting
25
cyan
blue
26
capn
Co2
27
-emia
blood condition
28
-meter
to measure
29
tuss
cough
30
-centesis
surgical puncture to remove fluid
31
proct
anus and rectum
32
cheil
lips
33
-plakia
plaque
34
stomat
mouth
35
xer/o
dry
36
-phagia
swallowing
37
hiat
opening
38
pept
digestion
39
aer/o
air
40
-pepsia
digestion
41
-emesis
vomiting
42
diverticul
diverticulum
43
col
colon
44
inguin
groin
45
-lithiasis
presence of stones
46
chole
bile
| -gall
47
cholangi/o
bile duct
48
-occult
hidden
49
palat/o
palate
50
cholecyst
gallbladder
51
choledoch/o
common bile duct
52
-ptosis
droop or sag
53
vesic/o
bladder
54
-genic
created by
55
olig
scanty
56
en-
into
57
-uria
urination
58
-uresis
urination
59
noct
night
60
pyel/o
renal pelvis
61
-tripsy
to crush
62
-pexy
surgical fixation
63
caus/o
burning
64
concuss/o
shaken together
65
contus/o
bruise
66
encephal/o
brain
67
-esthesia
sensation or feeling
68
esthet/o
feeling, nervous sensation, sense of perception
69
mening/o
membranes, meninges
70
radicul/o
root or nerve root
71
-tropic
having an infinity for
72
narc/o
stupor
73
ambul
to walk
74
ec-
out
75
trop
turn
76
en-
in
77
orbit
eyeball
78
dacry/o
tear
79
ir
iris
80
kerat
cornea
81
scler
white of eye
82
ansi/o
unequal
83
phot
light
84
mydrias
dilation of the pupil
85
papill
nipple like
86
dipl
double
87
-opia
visual condition
88
hemi-
half
89
nyctal
night
90
presby/o
old age
91
eso-
inward
92
exo-
outward
93
ametr
out of proportion
94
tars/o
eyelid
95
vitr
vitreous humor
96
myring
eardrum
97
staped
stapes
98
cutane/o
skin
99
hidr/o
sweat
100
hirsut/o
hairy
101
lip/o
fat
102
melan/o
black
103
onych/o
fingernail or toenail
104
pil/i
hair
105
rhytid/o
wrinkle
106
seb/o
sebum
107
urtic/o
hives, rash
108
trich/o
hair
109
koil
hollow or concave
110
crypt
hidden
111
scler/o
hard
112
pedicul
lice
113
acr/o
extremities
114
adren/o
adrenal glands
115
crin/o
secrete
116
-dipsia
thirst
117
glyc/o
glucose, sugar
118
gonad/o
gonads, sex glands
119
pancreat/o
pancreas
120
somat/o
body
121
pro-
on behalf of
122
lactin
milk
123
gynec/o
female
124
mast
breast
125
andr/o
male, masculine
126
varic/o
varicose veins
127
vas/o
blood vessel
128
vas
vas deferens
129
orchi/o
testicle
130
men/o
menstruation
131
-arche
beginning
132
-pause
stopping
133
nulli-
none
134
-gravida
pregnant
135
-para
to give birth
136
primi-
first
137
metri
uterus
138
galact/o
milk
139
colp/o
vagina
140
hyster/o
uterus
141
salping/o
fallopian tube
142
amnio
amnion
143
oophor
ovary
144
episi
vulva
145
auscult/a
to listen
146
-tion
the process of
147
steth/o
chest
148
-crit
to separate
149
lapar/o
abdomen
150
flur/o
glowing
151
ultra-
beyond
152
son/o
sound
153
pyret
fever
154
trans
through or across
