Language of Medicine -Ch 21 -Review Sheet

Aer/o

air

Alges/o

sensitivity to pain

Bronch/o

bronchial tube

Chem/o

drug; chemical

Cras/o

mixture; temperament

Cutane/o

skin

Derm/o

skin

Enter/o

intestines (usually small intestine)

Erg/o

work

Esthes/o

nervous sensation (feeling)

Hist/o

tissue

Hypn/o

sleep

Iatr/o

physician; treatment

Lingu/o

tongue

Myc/o

muscle

Narc/o

numbness; stupor; sleep

Or/o

mouth

Pharmac/o

drug

Prurit/o

itching

Pyret/o

fever

Thec/o

sheath

Tox/o

poison

Toxic/o

poison

Vas/o

vessel; duct; vas deferens

Ven/o

vein

Vit/o

life

-amine

nitrogen compound

-dote

to give

-genic

produced by or in

-in

in; into; not

-phylaxis

protection

-sol

solution

Ana-

up; apart; backward; again, anew

Anti-

against

Contra-

against; opposite

Par-

other than; abnormal

Syn-

together; with