H EDU 3030 Exam 3 Combining Forms & Word Roots

cephal/o

Head

cerebell/o

Little brain

cerebr/o

cerebrum

cran/i, Crani/o

skull

Cyt/o

Cell

dendr/o

tree

disk/o

disk

dur/o

dura, head

electr/o

electricity

encephal/o

brain

esthesi/o

feeling

fibr/o

fiber

gli/o

glue

hypn/o

sleep

lamin/o

thin plate

later/o

side

lob/o

lobe

mening/i, mening/o

membrane, meninges

ment/o

mind

my/o

muscle

myel/o

spinal cord

narc/o

stupor; numbness; sleep

neur/o

nerve

pallid/o

globus pallidus

papill/o

papilla

poli/o

gray

scler/o

hardening

somn/o

sleep

spin/o

thorn, spine

spondyl/o

vertebra

vag/o

vagus, wandering

ventricul/o

ventricle

ambul

to walk

concuss

shaken violently

Ganglion

knot

log

study

mnes

memory

sympath

sympathy

audi/o

to hear

aur/i

ear

chol/e

gall or bile

chochle/o

land snail

electr/o

electricity

labrynth/o

maze, inner ear

laryng/o

larynx (voice box)

mast/o

mastoid process

myring/o

eardrum, tympanic membrane

myc/o

fungus

neur/o

nerve

ot/o

ear

pharyng/o

pharynx (throat)

presby/o

old

py/o

pus

rhin/o

nose

scler/o

hardening

staped/o

stapes, stirrup

steat/o

fat

tympan/o

eardrum, tympanic membrane

acoust

hearing

auditor

hearing

fenestrat

window

med

middle

ambly/o

dull

anis/o

unequal

blephar/o

eyelid

choroid/o

choroid

Conjuctiv/o

to join together, conjuctiva

cor/o

pupil

corne/o

cornea

cry/o

cold

cycl/o

ciliary body

dacry/o

tear, lacrimal duct, tear duct

dipl/o

double

fibr/o

fiber

foc/o

focus

goni/o

angle

irid/o

iris

kerat/o

cornea

lacrim/o

tear, tear duct, lacrimal duct

lent/o

lense

metr/o

measure

mi/o

less, small

ocul/o, ophthalm/o, opt/o

eye

orth/o

straight

phac/o, phak/o

lens

phot/o

light

presby/o

old

pupill/o

pupil

retin/o

retina

stigmat/o

point

surg/o

surgery

ton/o

tone, tension

trich/o

hair

trop/o

turn

uve/o

uvea

xen/o

foreign material

xer/o

dry

coagulat

to clot

emulsificat

to disintegrate

enucleat

to remove the kernel of