HCC&MT Unit 1

abdomin/o

abdomen

adip/o

fat

anter/o

before, front

arter/o, arteri/o

artery

arthr/o

joint

ather/o

plaque, fatty substance

cardi/o, card/o

heart

caud/o

lower part of body, tail

cephal/o

head

chondr/i, chondr/o

cartilage

col/o

colon, large intestine

crani/o

skull

cyan/o

blue

cyte/o, -cyte

cell

dem/o

people, population

-derma, dermat/o, derm/o

skin

dors/o

back of body

enter/o

intestine, usually small intestine

erythr/o

red

eti/o

cause of disease

gastr/o

stomach

hem/o, hemat/o

blood, relating to the blood

hist/o

tissue

kyph/o

bent, hump

laryng/o

larynx, throat

leuk/o

white

lith/o, -lith

stone, calculus

lumb/o

lumbar, lower back, loin

my/o, myos/o

muscle

myc/o

fungus

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

nat/o

birth

nerv/o, neur/i, neur/o

nerve, nerve tissue

oste/o, ost/o

bone

ot/o

ear, hearing

path/o, -pathy

disease, suffering, feeling, emotion

peritone/o

peritoneum

poli/o

gray matter of brain and spinal cord

poster/o

behind, toward the back

py/o

pus

pyel/o

renal pelvis, bowl of kidney

pyr/o, pyret/o

fever, fire

rhin/o

nose

ten/o, tend/o

tendon, stretch out, extend, strain

tendin/o

tendon

tonsill/o

tonsil, throat

ventr/o

in front, abdomen side of body