MEDTERM: UNIT 4

carp/o

wrist bones

cis/o

cut

cost/o

rib

cutane/o

skin

dactyl/o

fingers or toes

duct/o

lead or carry

flex/o

bend

furc/o

branching

gloss/o

tongue

glyc/o

sugar

immun/o

protection

morph/o

shape or form

mort/o

death

nat/i

birth

norm/o

rule or order

ox/o

oxygen

pub/o

pubic bone

seps/o

infection

somn/o

sleep

son/o

sound

tens/o

stretch or force

the/o

put or place

thel/o (theli/o)

nipple

thyr/o

thyroid gland

top/o

place or position

tox/o

poison

trache/o

trachea (windpipe)

urethr/o

urethra

-crine

to secrete

-drome

running or course

-fusion

pouring or coming together

-gen

producing

-lapse

sliding or falling

-lysis

breakdown or separation

-meter

measuring device

-mission

sending

-or

one who

-oxia

oxygen condition

-partum

childbirth

-phoria

feeling or bearing

-physis

growth

-plasia

formation or growth

-plasm

structure

-pnea

breathing

-ptom

occurrence

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhea

flow or discharge

-stasis

stopping or controlling

-trophy

nourishment or development

a-, an-

without or not

ab-

away from

ad-

toward

ana-

up or apart

ante-

before/infront of

anti-

against

auto-

self

bi-

two

brady-

slow

cata-

down

con-

together

contra-

against or opposite

de-

down or lack of

dia-

through or complete

dys-

bad, painful, difficult

endo-

within/inner or inside

epi-

upon or above

eu-

good or normal

ex- (-eu)

out or outside

hemi-

half

hyper-

excessive

hypo-

under or deficient

in-

into, within, not

infra-

beneath

inter-

between

intra-

within

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

change or beyond

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

beside or abnormal

per-

through

peri-

around

poly-

many

post-

after

pre-

before or in advance

pro-

before or forward

re-

back or again

retro-

backward or behind

sub-

under

supra-

above

syn- (sym-)

together