Med Term Exam 5

para-

near, beside

para

woman who has given birth

paresis

partial paralysis

path/o, -pathy

disease

pauci

few

ped/o

foot, child

-penia

decrease in

per-

through

peri-

around

-pexy

surgical fixation

phac/o, phak/o

lens

phag/o

eat, ingest

pharmac/o

drug

-phasia

speech

-phil, -philic

attracting, absorbing

phleb/o

vein

phobia

fear

phon/o, -phonia

sound, voice

phot/o

light

phren/o

diaphragm

plas, -plasia

formation, development

-plasty

repair, reconstruction

-plegia

paraylsis

-pnea

breathing

pneum/o

air, gas, lung

pneumon/o, pulm/o, pulmon/o

lung

pod/o

foot

-poiesis

formation, production

poikilo-

varried, irregular

poli

gray

poly-

many

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

presby-

old

prim/i

first

pro-

before, in front of

proct/o

rectum

pseudo-

false, deceptive

psych/o

mind

ptosis

drooping

ptysis

spitting

pyel/o

renal pelvis

py/o

pus

pyr/o

fever

quadr/i-

four

rachi/o

spine

radicul/o

root of spinal nerve

radi/o

x-ray

re-

again, back

ren/o

kidney

reticul/o

network

retro-

behind, backward

-rhage

profuse flow

-raphy/-rrhaphy

surgical repair

-rhea

flow, discharge

-rhexis

rupture

rhin/o

nose

sacchar/o

sugar

salping/o

tube, oviduct, eustachian tube