23-24 AM Med Term Stumpers

-oid

resembling

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-penia

decrease, deficiency

-stasis

stopping, controlling, standing

-stenosis

narrowing, stricture

atel/o

incomplete, imperfect

-apheresis

removal

nulli-

none

-pepsia

digest, digestion

steat/o

fat, sebum

-sclerosis

hardening

cheil/o

lip or lips

isch/o

deficiency, blockage

angi/o

blood vessel

embol/o

plug

olig/o

scanty, few

gloss/o, lingu/o

tongue

-cyesis

state of pregnancy

spondyl/o, rachi/o

vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

rhiz/o

nerve root

-esthesia

sensation, feeling

-drome

run, running

-phagia

eating, swallowing

ment/o

mind

heter/o

other, different

rhabd/o

rod-shaped, striated

-rrhexis

rupture

-ecstasis

expansion, dilation, stretching

-ptosis

drooping

-asthenia

lack of strength, weakness

kyph/o

humpback

dips/o

thirst

nephr/o, ren/o

kidney

orchid/o, orchi/o, orch/o

testis, testicle

andr/o

man, male

eti/o

cause

trich/o

hair or hairlike

natr/o

Sodium

Viscer/o

internal organs

per-

by, through

lacrim/o, dacry/o

tears, tear duct, or lacrimal duct

-plegia

paralysis

ton/o

tension

sonm/o

to sleep

-schisis

split, splitting

pulmon/o

lung, air

-pnea

breathing, respiration

-ectomy

excision, surgical removal removal

-otomy

cutting into, surgical incision

-ostomy

surgically create an artificial opening

carcin/o

cancerous

sial/o, ptyal/o

saliva

ankyl/o

crooked, bent, stiff

myring/o, tympan/o

tympanic membrane (eardrum)

encephal/o

brain, inside head

-rrhea

flow, discharge

seb/o

sebum (oil)

-pexy, desis

surgical fixation

py/o

pus

kenesi/o, -kinesia

movement

kal/i

Potassium

metr/o

uterus