ALHS 1090 Final Exam Review: Endocrine, Cardiac, Blood, Respiratory Terms

gluc/o

sugar, sweetness

glyc/o

sugar, sweetness

home/o

same, alike

toxic/o

poison

-crine

secrete

-dipsia

thirst

nas/o, rhin/o

nose

pharyng/o

pharynx (throat)

laryng/o

larynx (voice box)

trache/o

trachea

bronchi/o, bronch/o

bronchus

pneum/o, pneumon/o

air, lung

pulmon/o

lung

ox/o, ox/i

oxygen

spir/o

breathe

-capnia

carbon dioxide

-pnea

breathing

-ptysis

spitting

-thorax

chest

angi/o

vessel (usually blood or lymph)

aort/o

aorta

arteri/o

artery

ather/o

fatty plaque

cardi/o

heart

electr/o

electricity

embol/o

plug

hemangi/o

blood vessel

my/o

muscle

phleb/o

vein

scler/o

hardening; sclera (white of eye)

sphygm/o

pulse

sten/o

narrowing, stricture

thromb/o

blood clot

vascul/o

vessel (usually blood or lymph)

ven/o

vein

hem/o

blood

hemat/o

blood

immun/o

immune, immunity, safe

lymph/o

lymph

phag/o

swallowing, eating

-globin

protein

-phylaxis

protection

-poiesis

formation, production

-stasis

standing still

-emia

blood condition

aniso-

unequal, dissimilar

iso-

same, equal