Chapter 8: The Language of Medicine (Terms)

amni/o

amnion

bartholin/o

bartholin gland

cervic/o

cervix, neck

chori/o, chorion/o

chorion

colp/o

vagina

episi/o, vulv/o

vulva

galact/o, lact/o

milk

gynec/o

woman, female

hyster/o, metr/o, metri/o, uter/o

uterus, womb

mamm/o, mast/o

breast

men/o

menses, menstruation

my/o, myom/o

muscle, muscle tumor

nat/i

birth

obstetr/o

pregnancy and childbirth

o/o, ov/o, ovul/o

egg

oophor/o, ovari/o

ovary

perine/o

perineum

phor/o

to bear

salping/o

fallopian tubes

vagin/o

vagina

-arche

beginning

-cyesis

pregnancy

-gravida

pregnant

-parous

bearing, bringing, forth

-rrhea

discharge

-salpinx

fallopian (uterine) tube

-tocia

labor, birth

-version

act of turning

dys-

painful

endo-, intra-

within

in-

in

multi-

many

nulli-

no, not, none

pre-

before

primi-

first

retro-

backward