ch 4: combining form + suffix

carp/o

wrist bones

Cis/o

Cut

Cost/o

Rib

Cutane/o

Skin

Dactyl/o

Fingers, toes

Duct/o

Lead, carry

Flex/o

Bend

Furc/o

Branching

Gloss/o

Tongue

Glyc/o

Sugar

immun/o

Protection

Morph/o

Shape, form

Mort/o

Death

Nat/i

Birth

Norm/o

Rule, order

Oxyen

Ox/o

Pubis [pubic bone]

Pub/o

Seps/o

Infection

Somn/o

Sleep

Son/o

Sound

Tens/o

Force, stretch, strain

The/o

Put, place

Thel/o, theli/o

Nipple

Thyroid gland

Thyr/o

Top/o

Place, position, location

Tox/o

Poison

Windpipe, trachea

Trache/o

Urethra

Urethr/o

Secrete

-crine

Run

-drome

Coming tgt, to pour

-fusion

Substance that produces

-gen

Slide, fall

-lapse

Breakdown, destruction, sepraration

-lysis

Measure

-meter

Send

-mission

One who

-or

Oxygen

-oxia

Birth, labor

-partum

Bear, carry, feeling

-phoria

Grow

-physis

development, formation, growth

-plasia

Structure/formation

-plasm

Breathing

-pnea

Happening, occurence

-ptom

Falling, drooping

-ptosis

Flow, discharge

-rrhea

Stopping, controlling

-stasis

Development, nourishment

-trophy

no, not, without

A-, an-

Away from

Ab-

Ad-

Toward

Ana-

Up, apart

Ante-

Before, forward

Against

Anti-

Self, own

Auto-

Bi-

Two

Slow

Brady-

Cata-

Down

Con-

With, together

Against, opposite

Contra-

Down, lack of

De-

Through, complete

Dia-

abnormal,

bad

difficult,

painful

Dys-

Out, outside

Ec-

In,within

Endo-

Upon,on, above

Epi-

Good,normal

Eu-

Out, outside

Eu-

Hemi-

Half

Hyper-

Excessive, above

Hypo-

Deficient, under

In-

Not

Into, within

in-

Beneath, under

Infra-

Between

Inter-

In, within, into

Intra-

Macro-

Large

Bad

Mal-

Meta-

Beyond, change

Micro-

Small

Neo-

New

All

Pan

Abnormal, beside

Para-

Per-

Through

Peri-

Surround

Poly-

Many, much

After, behind

Post-

Before, in front of

Pre-

Before, forward

Pro

Before, forward

Pros-

Back, again

Re-

Behind, backward

Retro-

Under

Sub-

Above, upper

Supra-

Together, with

Syn-, sym-

Tachy-

Fast

Across, through

Trans-

Under

Sub-

Beyond, excess

Ultra-