Med Terms Ch 1-3

aer/o

air, gas

Ather/o

plaque, fatty substance(inside of a blood vessel)

Blast/o

Immature cell

Calc/o, calci/o

calcium

Chondrio, chondro

cartilage, grainy, gritty

Chyl/o

chyle, a digestive juice

Chym/o

chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

Cyst/o, cysti

bladder, cyst, cystic duct

Cyt/o

cell

Ethm/o

ethmoid bone

Gluc/o

glucose

Hydr/o

hydrogen, water

Ket/o, keton/o

ketone, acetone

Lip/o

fat(outside of a blood vessel)

Nucle/o

nucleus

Plasma, plasmo

formative, plasma

Salping/o

tube

Sider/o

iron

Somat/o

body

Squam/o

scale, squamous(meaning scaly)

Syring/o

tube

algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o

pain

Cry/o

cold

Dips/o

thirst

Esthesi/o

sensations, perception

Kin/o, kine

movement

Kinesi/o, kines/o

Motion

Phon/o

sound, voice, speech

Phot/o

light

Son/o

sound

Therm/o

heat

acanth/o

spiny, thorny

Andr/o

masculine

Chlor/o

chlorine, green

Chrom/o, chromat/o

color

Cyan/o

blue

Eosin/o

red

Erythr/o

red, redness

Granul/o

granular

Gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o

women

Home/o, hom/o

same, constant

Ichthy/o

dry, scaly, fishy

Idi/o

distinct, unknown

Immun/o

safe, immune

Leuk/o

white

Macr/o

large, long

Meg/a, megal/o

large, million

Melan/o

black, dark

Micr/o

small, tiny

Mio

smaller, less

Morph/o

structure, shape

Norm/o

normal

Physi/o

physical, natural

Pseud/o

false

Scler/o

hardness, hardening

Scoli/o

crooked, bent

Spher/o

round, spherical

Staphyl/o

grapelike clusters

Sten/o

narrowness

Strept/o

twisted chains, streptococci

Terat/o

monster (as a malformed fetus)

Xanth/o

yellow

bacill/o

bacilli, bacteria

Bacteri/o

bacteria

Carcin/o

cancer

Kyph/o

humpback

Onch/o, onc/o

tumor

Path/o

disease

Pyr/o

fever, fire, heat

Schist/o

split

Schiz/o

split, division

Spasm/o

spasm

anteri/o

front

Dextr/o

right, toward the right

Dors/o

back

Goni/o

angle

Later/o

lateral, to one side

Medi/o

middle, medial plane

Mes/o

middle, median

Orth/o

straight, normal

Top/o

place, tropical

crin/o

secrete

Gen/o

producing, being born

Hypn/o

sleep

Log/o

speech, words, thought

Narc/o

sleep, numbness

Phag/o

eating, devouring, swallowing

Somn/o, somni

sleep

Spir/o

breath; breathe

actin/o

light

Amyl/o

starch

Bar/o

weight, pressure

Bas/o, basi/o

base

Bio

life

Chem/o

chemical

Chrono

time

Coni/o

dust

Cycl/o

circle, cycle

Dyna, dynam/o

force, energy

Echo

reflected sound