nervous system word parts

-cele

bulge, hernia

menig/o

meninges (membranes sound the brain and spinal cord)

myel/o

spinal cord or bone marrow

-ist

specialist

neur/o

nerve

-algia

pain

caus/o

burning

-tion

process

de-

lack of, less, removal

-itis

inflammation

-pathy

disease

para-

near, alongside

esthes/o

nervous sensation

poly-

many, much

radicul/o

nerve root

angi/o

blood vessel

encephal/o

brain

somn/o

sleep

-plegia

paralysis

hemi-

half

-paresis

weakness

quadri/o

four

spast/o

spasm

crani/o

skull

-otomy

incision, to cut into

-ectomy

surgical removal (cut out)

lamin/o

lamina (vertebral bone)

-desis

surgical fusion (binding)

spondyl/o

vertebra

mnesis

memory

phas/o

speech

cephal/o

head

vascul/o

blood vessel

cerebr/o

brain

-ar

pertaining to

-ose

full of, pertaining to

comat/o

deep sleep

ment/o

mind

lex/o

reading

phas/o

speech

-lepsy

seizure

epi-

above, upon, outside of

hemat/o

blood

rrhage-

discharge of blood (rupture, bleeding)

intra-

within

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

narc/o

sleep

phot/o

light

phob/o

fear

post-

behind, after

anti-

against

leps/o

seizure

cerebr/o

cerebrum (largest part of brain)

exacerbat/o

exasperate, irritate, provoke