CHAPTER 4 MED TERM STUDY GUIDE

birth

nat/i

death

mort/o

fingers/toes

dactyl/o

infection

seps/o

nipple

thel/o , theli/o

protection

immun/o

rib

cost/o

skin

cutane/o

sleep

somn/o

tongue

gloss/o

to secrete

-crine

slide/fall/sag

-lapse

run

-drome

birth/labor

-partum

breathing

-pnea

grow

-physis

to measure

-meter

development/nourishment

-trophy

flow/discharge

-rrhea

structure/formation

-plasm

up/apart

ana-

down

cata-

fast

tachy-

good/normal

eu-

small

micro-

after/behind

post-

all

pan-

bad

mal-

between

inter-

together/with

syn- , sym-

two

bi-

under

sub-

in/within

endo-

half

hemi-

large

macro-

many/much

poly-

slow

brady-

behind/backward

retro-

near/beside/abnormal

para-

against

anti-

new

neo-

no/not/without

a- , an-

one

uni-

beneath/under

infra-

through/complete

dia-

beyond/change

meta-

above/upper

supra-

before/in front of

pre-

beyond/excessive

ultra-

beyond/forward

pro-