Chapter 12 terms

steroid/o-

steroid

-zoon

animal; living thing

testicul/o-

testicle; testis

balan/o-

glans penis

-ad

in the direction of; toward

pareun/o-

sexual intercourse

bulb/o-

bulblike structure

-ty

quality; state

urethr/o-

urethra

didym/o-

testis

-ual

pertaining to

urin/o-

Urinary system

ejaculat/o-

expel suddenly

-ile

pertaining to

mit/o-

threadlike strand

erect/o-

stand up

-ency

condition of being/ having

vas/o-

blood vessels;

fer/o-

bear

non-

not

trop/o-

having an affinity for; stimulating; turning

genit/o-

genitilia

circum-

around

adolesc/o-

beginning of being an adult

gon/o-

ovum; spernatozoon

coit/o-

sexual intercourse

inguin/o-

groin

gynec/o-

female; woman

interstiti/o-

space between tissues

puber/o-

growing up

orchid/o-

tesis

folli/o-

saclike structure

orchi/o-

testis

gen/o-

arising from; produced by

orch/o-

testis

mei/o-

decrease in number

pen/o-

penis

lutein/o-

yellow

perine/o-

perineum

crypt/o-

hidden

prostat/o-

prostate gland

feril/o-

conceive form

scrot/o-

scrotum

varic/o-

varicose vein

semin/i-

sperm; spermatozoon

phim/o-

closed tightly

semin/o-

sperm; spermatozoon

cocc/o-

spherical bacterium

sperm/o-

sperm

enucle/o-

remove the main part

spermat/o-

sperm

vapor/o-

gaseous liquid

sex/o-

sex

test/o-

testis