Vocab Chap 3

abscess

a going away

alges/i-

pain

\-algia

pain

ante-

before

anter/o-

before or foremost

aqua-

water

auscult/o-

to listen

bacill/o-

rod-like

bacteri/o-

rod

bio-

life

\
bucca-

\n cheek

cal/o-

heat, heated, hot

capit/o-

head

caud/o-

tail or toward tail

caust/o-

burn or heat

cauter/o-

surgical puncture to drain fluid

centr/i-

center

cephal/o-

head

\-cept-

receiver

cine/o-

movement filming

\-cis

cut or to cut

\-clysis

irrigation or injection

\-coccus

\n berry

coronal plane

crowning or frontal body cut

cryo-

cold

curett/o-

scooping or scraping

cyte-

cell or chamber

deep

most inward

dem/o-

people

depress/o-

lower

\-desis

binding or to bind

dextr/o-

right

different-

to separate

dist/o-

farther from

doct/o-

to teach or teacher

dol/o-

pain

dors/o-

back

duct/o-

to draw or to lead away

dynam/o

work or strength

\-dynia

pain

echo-

sound

\-ectomy

excision or removal

electr/o-

electrical

febr/o-

fever

gen/o-

race

geni/o-

chin

\-graft

to probe or cut with a knife

\-gram

recording

\-graphy

procedure of using an instrument to do recording

\-graph

instrument

in situ

in position or location

infect/o-

to invade

\-ing

procedure of or process of

intro-

within

intus-

within

ion/o-

going or ion movement

ipsi-

equal

ir-

not or lack of

\-ish

resembling or related to

\-ism

state of or condition of

\-ist

specialist

\-itis

inflamed or inflammation

\-ity

state of

\-ize

\
state of or acts like

\

lax-

to loosen or loosening

lepto-

thin or slender

\-liter

liter

\-lysis

destruction, breakdown, declining

mal-

bad, harm, injury

\-mata

multiple

\-metry

measurement procedure

milli-

one thousandth

minimus-

smallest

minute

small

mitr/e-

head band or mitre box

myel/o-

spinal cord or bone marrow

nicel/o-

nut

\-o/plasty

repair or plastic surgery

\-oid

resembling

onc/o-

tumor

\-orrhaphy

suturing or repair

\-ostomy

mouth-like opening produced by surgery

\
\-otomy

cutting, to cut, cut into

\-otripsy

crushing or to crush

\
pall/o-

pale or lack of color

palpat/o-

touching or to touch

palpit-

quivering or fluttering

pharmac/o-

drug relationship, to drug, medicine

\-pheresis

withdrawal or to separate

phot/o-

light

physi/o-

function of or nature of

plas-

growth, development, formation

pro-

before

prone-

to bend forward

proxim/o-

close or closest

pyo-

pus

pyret/o-

fever

radi/o-

ray, spoke, X-ray, radio activity

ray-

spoke or wavelength

roent/o-

x-ray