DE Med Term Unit 1 Full

lymph/o

lymph - clear fluid in lymph vessels and nodes

duct/o

lead, carry

strept/o

twisted chains

staphyl/o

clusters

dactyl/o

fingers, toes

splen/o

spleen

neutr/o

neutrophil - white blood cell

bronch/o

broncial tubes - 2 tubes, 1 L 1 R, branch from trachea into lungs

phag/o

to eat, swallow

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

my/o

muscle

top/o

place, position, location

thyr/o

thyroid gland, shield

the/o

put, place

blephar/o

eyelid

tens/o

force, strain, stretch

son/o

sound

somn/o

sleep

seps/o

infection

plas/o

formation, development

phleb/o

vein

axill/o

armpit

arteri/o

artery

angi/o

vessel

pleur/o

pleura - membrane surrounding lungs adjacent to chest wall

acu/o

sharp, severe, sudden

cost/o

rib

acr/o

extremities, top, extreme point

norm/o

rule, order

nat/i

birth

lapar/o

abdomen, abdominal wall

isch/o

to hold back

hydr/o

water, fluid

carp/o

wrist bones

furc/o

branching

ab-

away from

ad-

towards

ante-

before, forward

brady-

slow

con-

with, together

contra-

against, opposite

de-

down, lack of

ec-

out, outside

eu-

good, normal

hemi-

half

infra-

beneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

within, in, into

neo-

new

para-

abnormal, beside, near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

pros-

before, forward

syn-

sym-

together, with

supra-

above, upper

tachy-

fast

ultra-

beyond, excess

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-penia

deficiency

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlargement

-sclerosis

hardening

-stasis

controlling, stopping

-phoria

bear, carry, feeling (mental state)

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-stomy

opening to form a mouth (stomy)

-physis

grow

-ose

pertaining to, full of

-crine

secrete

-tomy

incision, cutting into

-trophy

development, nourishment

-drome

run

-fusion

coming together, to pour

-oid

resembling, derived from

-ole

little, small

-gen

substance that produces

-ule

little, small

-lapse

slide, fall, sag

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

measure

-mission

send

-ium

-um

structure, tissue

-us

structure, substance

-pnea

breathing

-ectomy

excision, removal, resection

-ptom

happening, occurence

-dynia

pain

-ptosis

drooping, falling, prolapse

-cele

hernia

-coccus

-cocci

berry shaped bacterium

-genesis

condition of producing, forming

-centesis

puncture to remove fluid

inguin/o

groin

cis/o

to cut

glyc/o

sugar

laryng/o

larynx

gloss/o

tongue