medical terminology quiz 4

abdomin/o

abdomen

an/o

anus

bi/o

life

cardi/o

heart

carp/o

carpals

cis/o

to cut

cost/o

ribs

crani/o

skull

cutane/o

skin

dermat/o

skin

dur/o

dura mater

endocrin/o

endocrine glands

enter/o

intestines

estheti/o

sensation

gen/o

to produce, to begin

ger/o

old age

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood

later/o

side

men/o

menses

nat/i

birth

neur/o

nerve

norm/o

rule, order

obstetr/o

midwife

odont/o

tooth

opthalm/o

eye

opt/o

eye

orth/o

straight

oste/o

bone

ot/o

ear

ped/o

child

peritone/o

peritoneum

plas/o

formation, growth, development

rect/o

rectum

ren/o

kidney

rheumat/o

flow, fluid

scapul/o

scapula

son/o

sound

thyroid/o

thyroid gland

top/o

to put, place, position

throph/o

development, nourishment

urethr/o

urethra

uter/o

uterus

ven/o

vein

vertebr/o

vertebra

-al

pertaining to

-ation

process, condition

-cision

process of cutting

-crine

secretion

-dipsia

thirst

-emia

blood condition

-gen

to produce

-graphy

process of recording

-ia

condition

-ic

pertaining to

-ine

pertaining to

-ism

condition, process

-lapse

to fall, slide

-lysis

loosening, breakdown, seperation, destruction

-meter

to measure

-mission

to send

-mortem

death

-oma

tumor, mass

-ous

pertaining to

-partum

birth

-pathy

disease condition

-phagia

eating

-phasia

speech

-plasia

formation (condition)

-plasm

formation (tissue)

-plegia

paralysis

-pnea

breathing

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-scopy

process of visual examination

-section

to cut

-stasis

to stand, place, stop, control

-tension

pressure

-thesis

to put, place

-tic

pertaining to

-trophy

nourishment; development

-um

structure

-uria

urine condition

-y

process, condition

a-, an-

no, not, without

ab-

away from

ad-

toward, near

ana-

up, apart

ante-

before, forward

anti-

against

bi-

two, both

Brady-

slow

con-

with, together

dia-

complete through

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

ec-

out, outside

endo-

within, in, inner

epi-

above, upon

ex-

out

extra-

outside of

hemi-

half