respiratory system CH13

alveol/o

air sac

lob/o

lobe

somn/o

sleep

cyan/o

blue

-ptysis

to spit

ventil/o

wind

-centesis

surgical puncture

brady-

slow

constrict/o

narrow

-tic

pertaining to

-thorax

chest

rhin/o

nose

dys-

bad, painful, difficult

-ism

condition

-al

pertaining to

embol/o

a plug

hem/o

blood

trache/o

windpipe

peri-

around

cost/o

rib

cyst/o

sac, bladder

pneumon/o

lung, air

-plasty

surgical repair

in-

in, not

re-

again, back, backward

-um

structure

-itic

pertaining to

tachy-

fast

hyper-

excessive, above

-ation

condition, process

stin/o

partition

tonsill/o

tonsil

hale

breathe

para-

near, beside, abnormal

inter-

between

nas/o

nose

ox/o

oxygen

lyt/o

loosen, dissolve, separate

pulmon/o

lung

-logist

specialist in the study of

-ary

pertaining to

tubercul/o

nodule

a-

no, not, without

ex-

out

-ole

small

poly-

much, many

eu-

normal, good

purul/o

pus

pleur/o

lining of lung

capn/o

carbon dioxide

thorac/o

chest

thromb/o

clot

-or

one who

media-

middle

bronchi/o

breathing tube

spir/o

breathing, to breathe

pir/o

breathing, to breathe

tom/o

to cut, to section

pharyng/o

throat

bronch/o

breathing tube

aden/o

gland

-metry

process of measuring

-ectomy

excision

anthrac/o

coal

pnea

breathing, to breathe

sinus/o

sinus, cavity

-scopy

process of viewing

son/o

sound

dilat/o

expand

py/o

pus

-tomy

incision

-stomy

new opening

pector/o

chest

coni/o

dust

endo-

within

pariet/o

wall

hypo-

deficient, below

sarc/o

flesh

voc/o

voice

-osis

condition

-ectasis

dilation

-itis

inflammation

-logy

study of

pneum/o

lung, air

laryng/o

voice box

muc/o

mucus

-scope

instrument to view

ultra-

beyond

-ent

pertaining to, forming

-graphy

process of recording

phon/o

voice

-meter

instrument to measure

or/o

mouth

-ia

condition

-ate

composed of

-oid

resembling

hyp(o)-

deficient, below