Medical Terminology chapter 1

A set of flashcards defining various medical combining forms related to body parts, sensations, qualities, and conditions.

aer/o

air, gas

ather/o

plaque, fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel)

blast/o

immature cells

calc/o, calci/o

calcium

chondrio, chondro

cartilage, grainy, gritty

chyl/o

chyle, a digestive juice

chym/o

chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

cyst/o, cysti

bladder, cyst, cystic duct

cyt/o

cell

ethm/o

ethmoid bone

gli/o

glue

gluc/o

glucose

glyc/o

sugars

hydr/o

hydrogen, water

ket/o, keton/o

ketone, acetone

lip/o

fat (outside of a blood vessel)

nucle/o

nucleus

plasma, plasmo

formative, plasma

salping/o

tube

sider/o

iron

somat/o

body

squam/o

scale, squamous (meaning scaly)

syring/o

tube

algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o

pain

cry/o

cold

dips/o

thirst

esthesi/o

sensation, perception

kin/o, kine

movement, motion

phon/o

sound, voice, speech

phot/o

light

son/o

sound

therm/o

heat

acanth/o

spiny, thorny

andr/o

masculine

chlor/o

chlorine, green

chrom/o, chromat/o

color

crypt/o

hidden, obscure

cyan/o

blue

eosin/o

red

idi/o

distinct, unknown

immun/o

safe, immune

leuk/o

white

macr/o

large, long

erythr/o

red, redness

granul/o

granular

gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o

women

home/o, hom/o

same, constant

ichthy/o

dry, scaly, fishy

meg/a, megal/o

large, million

melan/o

black, dark

micr/o

small, tiny

mio

smaller, less

morph/o

structure, shape

norm/o

normal

physi/o

physical, natural

pseud/o

false

scler/o

hardness, hardening

scoli/o

crooked, bent

spher/o

round, spherical

staphyl/o

grapelike clusters

sten/o

narrowness

strept/o

twisted chains, streptococci

terat/o

monster (as a malformed fetus)

xanth/o

yellow

bacill/o

bacilli, bacteria

bacteri/o

bacteria

carcin/o

cancer

kyph/o

humpback

onch/o, onc/o

tumor

path/o

disease

pyr/o

fever, fire, heat

schist/o

split

schiz/o

split, division

spasm/o

spasm