language of medicine chap 4 5 6

Carp/o

Carp/o

Wrist bones

Cib/o

Meals

Cis/o

To cut

Cost/o

Rib

Cutane/o

Skin

Dactyl/o

Fingers, toes

Duct/o

To lead, carry

Flex/o

To bend

Furc/o

Forking, branching

Gloss/o

Tongue

Gylc/o

Sugar

Immun/o

Protection

Morph/o

Shape, form

Mort/o

Death

Nat/i

Birth

Nect/o

To bind, tie, connect

Norm/o

Rule, order

Ox/o

Oxygen

Pub/o

Pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone

Seps/o

Infection

Somn/o

Sleep

Son/o

Sound

The/o

To put, place

Thel/o

Nipple

Thryr/o

Place, position, location

Tox/o

Poison

Trache/o

Windpipe, trachea

Urethr/o

Urethra

-blast

Embryonic, immature

-crine

To secreteq

-cyesis

pregnancy

-drome

to run

-fusion

Coming together, to pour

-gen

substance that produces

-lapse

to slide, fall, sag

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

to measure

-mission

to send

-or

one who

-partum

birth, labor

-phoria

to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

-physis

to grow

-plasia

development, formation

-pnea

breathing

-ptosis

falling, dropping, prolapse

-rrhea

flow, disharge

-stasis

stopping, controlling

-trophy

development, noursihment

a-

an-

No, not, without

ab-

away from (notice tht the b faces away form the a).

ad-

toward (notice that the d faces toward the a)

ana-

up, apart

ante-

before, forward

anti-

against

auto-

self, own

bi-

two

brady-

slow

cata-

down

con-

with, together

contra-

against, oposite

de-

down, lack of

dia-

through, complete

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

ec-

ecto-

out, outside

en-

endo-

in, within

epi-

upon, on, above

eu-

good, normal

ex-

out, outside, away from

hemi-

half

hyper-

excessive, above

hypo-

deficient, under

in-

not

in-

into, within

infra-

beneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

in, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

beyond, change

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

abnormal, beside, near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

pro-

before, forward

psuedo-

false

re-

back, again

retro-

behind, backward

sub-

under

supra-

above, upper

syn-

sym-

together, with

tachy-

fast