Wednesday Exam 5

Word Root/stem

The essential MEANING of the term

Suffix

word ENDING

Prefix

Word added to BEGINNING of term

adds infos. like presence, absence, location, number, size

Combinig VOWEL

a vowel that CONNECTS roots to suffixes, & roots to other roots to make pronunciation easier

Combining FORM

COMBINATION of root & combining vowel

Electr/o/cardi/o/gram means

record of electricity in heart

Sub/gastr/ic

pertaining to under

aden/o

gland

arthr/o

joint

bi/o

life

carcin/o

cancer, cancerous

cardi/o

heart

cephal/o

head

cerebr/o

cerebrum

cyst/o

urinary bladder

cyt/o

cell

derm/o

skin

dermat/o

skin

electr/o

electricity

encephal/o

brain

enter/o

intestines

erythr/o

red

gastr/o stomach

gnos/o

knowledge

gynec/o

woman, female

hem/o

blood

hepat/o

liver

hemat/o

blood

lapar/o

abdomen

leuk/o

white

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

nerve

onc/o

tumor

opthalm/o

eye

oste/o

bone

path/o

disease

psych/o

mind

ren/o

kidney

rhin/o

nose

sarc/o

flesh

thromb/o

clotting

-al

pertaining to

-algia

pain

-cyte

cell

-ectomy

cuting out, removal, excision

-emia

blood condition

globin

protein

-gram

record

-ia

condition

-ic

pertaining to

-ism

condition, process

-itis

inflammation

-logist

specialist in the study of

-logy

study of

-oma

tumor, mass

-opsy

process of viewing

-osis

abnormal condition

-scope

instrument to visually examine

-scopy

process of visual examination

-sis

state of

-tomy

process of cutting into (incision)

a-, an-

no, not

aut-

self

dia-

complete, through

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

endo-

within

exo-

outside

hyper-

excessive more than normal, too much

hypo-

below, less than normal, under

peri-

surrounding

pro-

before, forward

re-

back

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through

aer

air

example of aer

aerobic

bili

bile

example of bili

bilirubin

chondr

cartilage

example of chondr

osteochondritis

cyt

cell

example of cyt

cytology

encephal

brain

example of encephal

encephalitis

gastr

stomach

example of gastr

gastrointestinal

hemat

blood

example of hemat

hematology

hepat

blood

hepat example

hepatitis

my

muscle

my- example

myalgia

nephr

kidney

nephr example

nephritis

oste

bone

oste example

osteoporosis

pulmon

lung

pulmon example

pulmonary

scler

hard