Med term Ch 9

anxi/o

anxi/o

anxious, uneasy

cephal/o

head

cerebell/o

cerebellum

cerebr/o

cerebrum

contus/o

to bruise

crani/o

skull

dur/o

dura matter

encephal/o

brain

ethes/o, esthesi/o

nervous sensation

gli/o

glue

hydr/o

water

hypn/o

sleep

isch/o

back, to hold back

lamin/o

lamina (thin plate or layer, arch)

lex/o

word

medull/o

medulla oblongata

mening/o, meningi/o

meninges

neur/o

nerve

phas/o

speech

phob/o

fear

phren/o

mind

pol/o

extreme

poli/o

gray matter

pont/o

pons

psych/o

mind

radicul/o

nerve root

schiz/o

split

somat/o

body

synaps/o, synapt/o

point of contact, to join

syncop/o

to cut off, cut short, faint

tax/o

coordination, order

tempor/o

the temples

thalam/o

thalamus

thec/o

sheath (meninges)

traumat/o

trauma, injury, wound

troph/o

development, nourishment

ventricul/o

ventricle

bi-

two, both

con-

together, with

dys-

painful, difficult

en-

in, within

epi-

on, over, upon

hemi-

half

intra-

within, into

mono-

one, single

par-, para-

near, beside, alongside, beyond, abnormal

poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

quadri-

four

sub-

below, under

-al, -ar, -eal, -ial, -ic, -tic

pertaining to

-algesia

pain, sensitivity

-algia

pain

-asthenia

weakness

-cele

hernia, swelling, protrusion

-e

(noun suffix with no meaning)

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

-ethesia

feeling, sensation

-ia

condition

-ion

process, state, condition

-lepsy

seizure

-leptic

to seize, take hold of

-lysis

breakdown, separation, loosening

-lytic

pertaining to breakdown or destruction

-orexia

appetite

-osis

abnormal condition

-paresis

weakness

-phasia

speech

-plegia

paralysis

-rrhagic

pertaining to bursting forth (of blood)

-rrhaphy

suture

-sclerosis

hardening, thickening

-taxia

muscle coordination

-tropic

turning

-um, -us

structure, tissue, thing