Chapter 12-13: The Reproductive System

amni/o

amnion (amniotic sac)

cervic/o

neck, cervix uteri

colp/o, vagin/o

vagina

gynec/o

woman, female

hyster/o, metr/o, uter/o

uterus (womb)

mamm/o, mast/o

breast

men/o

menses, menstruation

galact/o, lact/o

milk

metr/o

uterus (womb); measure

nat/o

birth

oophor/o, ovari/o

ovary

perine/o

perineum

salping/o

tube

-arche

beginning

-cyesis

pregnancy

-gravida

pregnant woman

-para

to bear (offspring)

-salpinx

tube

-tochia

childbirth, labor

-version

turning

ante-

before, in front of

dys-

bad, painful, difficult

endo-

in, within

multi-

many, much

post-

after

primi-

first

gestation

time from conception to birth

andr/o

male

balan/o

glans penis

crypt/o

hidden

epididym/o

epididymis

genit/o

genitalia

gonad/o

gonads, sex glands

gon/o

seed

olig/o

scanty

orch/o, orchi/o, orchid/o

testis

test/o

testis

perine/o

perineum

prostat/o

prostate gland

spermat/o, sperm/o

spermatozoa, sperm cells

varic/o

dilated vein

vas/o

vessel, vas deferens, duct

vesicul/o

seminal vesicle

-cide

killing

-genesis

forming, production, origin

-ism

condition

-spadias

slit, fissure

brachy-

short

epi-

above, upon