Chapter 10 Nervous System - Combining forms/Suffixes

Cerebell/o

Cerebellum

Cerebr/o

Cerebrum

Dur/o

Dura mater

Encephal/o

brain

Gli/o

glial cells

lept/o

thin, slender

mening/o

membranes

meningi/o

meninges

CTE

chronic traumatic encephalopathy

-blast

immature

my/o

muscle

myel/o

spinal cord (bone marrow)

neur/o

nerve

pont/o

pons

radicul/o

nerve root

thalam/o

thalamus

thec/o

sheath (refers to meninges)

vag/o

vagus nerve

alges/o, -algesia

sensitivity to pain

pyel/o

renal pelvis of kidney

py/o

pus

neuropathies

diseases of peripheral nerves affecting motor, sensory and autonomic functions

polyneuropathies

diseases that affect many nerves

mononeuropathies

diseases affecting a single nerve

-algia

pain

caus/o

burning

comat/o

deep sleep (coma)

esthesi/o, -esthesia

feeling, nervous sensation

kines/o, kinesi/o, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic

movement

-lepsy

seizure

lex/o

word phrase

-paresis

weakness

-phasia

speech

-plegia

paralysis

-praxia

action

-sthenia

strength

syncop/o

to cut off, cut short

tax/o

order, coordination

af-,ad-

to, toward

-ferent

carrying

ef-

away from

syncope

fainting, sudden and temporary loss of consciousness due to inadequate flow of blood to brain

quadri-

four

narc/o

stupor, sleep

para-

abnormal

tardive

occurring late

aphasia

difficulty with speech