Language of Medicine Chapter 4

carp/o

Wrist bones

cis/o

cut

cost/o

rib

cutane/o

skin

dactyl/o

fingers,toes

duct/o

lead,carry

flex/o

bend

gloss/o

tongue

glyc/o

sugar

immun/o

protection

morph/o

shape.form

mort/o

death

nat/i

birth

norm/o

rule

ox/o

oxygen

pub/o

Pubis; anterior portion of the pelvis

seps/o

infection

somn/o

sleep

son/o

sound

the/o

Put, place

thel/o, theli/o

nipple

tens/o

Force,strain, stretch

thyr/o

Thyroid gland; shield

top/o

Place, position, location

tox/o

poison

trache/o

windpipe

urethr/o

urethra

-crine

secrete

-drome

run

-fusion

Coming together; to pour

-gea

Substance that produces

-lapse

slide

-lysis

breakdown

-meter

measure

-mission

send

-or

One who

-oxia

oxygen

-partum

Birth. labor

-phoria

Bear, carry, feeling

-physis

Grow

-plasia

development

-plasm

structure

-pnea

breathing

-ptom

happening

=ptosis

Falling, drooping, prolapse

-rrhea

Flow, discharge

-stasis

Stopping, controlling

-thophy

Development, nourishment

A-

No, not, without

an-

No, not, without

ab-

Away from

ad-

toward

ana-

Up, apart

ante-

Before, forward

anti-

against

auto-

Self, own

bi-

two

brady-

slow

cata-

down

con-

With, together

contra-

Against, opposite

de-

Down, lack of

dia-

Through, complete

dys-

Abnormal, bad, painful, difficult

ec-

Out, outside

endo-

In, within

epi-

Upon, on, above

eu-

Good, normal

ex-

Out, outside

hemi-

half

hyper-

excessive,above

hypo-

Deficient, under

in-

not

infra-

Beneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

In, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

Beyond, change

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

Abnormal, beside. near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

poly-

Many, much

post-

After, behind

pre-

Before, in front

pro-

Before, forward

pros-

Before, forward

re-

Back, again

retro-

Behind. backward

sub-

under

supra-

Above, upper

syn-

Together, with

sym-

Together, with

tachy-

fast

trans-

Across, through

ultra-

Beyond, excess

uni-

one