TLM Chap 17 Sense Organs

The language of Medicine Chapter 17: Sense Organs: The Eye and the Ear

acous/o

hearing

ambly/o

dim; dull

anis/o

unequal

aque/o

water

audi/o

hearing

audit/o

hearing

aur/o, auricul/o

ear

blephar/o

eyelid

cochle/o

cochlea (inner part of ear)

conjunctiv/o

conjunctiva (lines the eyelid

cor/o

pupil

corne/o

cornea

cycl/o

ciliary body of eye; cycle; circle

dacry/o

tear

dipl/o

double

glauc/o

gray

ir/o, irid/o

iris (colored portion of eye)

kerat/o

cornea; hard, horny tissue

lacrim/o

tear; tear duct; lacrimal duct

mastoid/o

mastoid process (behind the ear)

mi/o

smaller; less

myc/o

fungus

mydr/o

wide

myring/o

tympanic membrane (eardrum)

nyct/o

night

ocul/o

eye

ophthalm/o

eye

opt/o, optic/o

eye; vision

ossicul/o

ossicle (small bone)

ot/o

ear

palpebr/o

eyelid

papill/o

nipple-like; optic disc (disk)

phac/o, phak/o

lens of eye

phot/o

light

presby/o

old age

pupill

pupil (dark center of the eye)

retin/o

retina (light-sensitive layer of tissue in the back of the eye that converts images)

salping/o

fallopian tube; auditory (eustachian) tube

scler/o

sclera (white of eye); hard

scot/o

darkness

staped/o

stapes (middle ear bone)

tympan/o

tympanic membrane (eardrum); middle ear

uve/o

uvea, vascular layer of eye (iris, choroid, ciliary body)

vestibul/o

vestibule of the inner ear

vitre/o

glass

xer/o

dry

-acusis

hearing

-cusis

hearing

-meter

measure

-metry

process of measurement

-opia, -opsia

vision condition

-otia

ear condition

-phobia

fear

-plegic

-pertaining to paralysis; palsy

-tropia

to turn