Language of Medicine Chapters 3 and 4

carp/o

wrist bones

cib/o

meals

cis/o

to cut

cost/o

rib

cutane/o

skin

dactyl/o

fingers, toes

duct/o

to lead, carry

flex/o

to bend

furc/o

forking, branching

gloss/o

tongue

glyc/o

sugar

immun/o

protection

morph/o

shape, form

mort/o

death

nat/i

birth

nect/o

to bind, tie, connect

norm/o

rule, order

ox/o

oxygen

pub/o

pubis (pubic bone)

seps/o

infection

somn/o

sleep

son/o

sound

the/o

to put, place

thel/o

nipple

thyr/o

thyroid gland

top/o

place, position, location

tox/o

poison

trache/o

windpipe, trachea

urethr/o

urethra

-blast

embryonic, immature

-crine

to secrete

-cyesis

pregnancy

-drome

to run

-fusion

coming together, to pour

-gen

substance that produces

-lapse

to slide, fall, sag

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

to measure

-mission

to send

-or

one who

-partum

birth, labor

-phoria

to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

-physis

to grow

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-plasm

structure or formation

-pnea

breathing

-ptosis

falling, dropping, prolapse

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-stasis

stopping, controlling

-trophy

development, nourishment

a-, an-

no, not, without

ab-

away from

ad-

toward

ana-

up, apart

ante-

before, forward

anti-

against

auto-

self, own

bi-

two

brady-

slow

cata-

down

con-

with, together

contra-

against, opposite

de-

down, lack of

dia-

through, complete

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

ec-, ecto-

out, outside

en-, endo-

in, within

epi-

upon, on, above

eu-

good, normal

ex-

out, outside, away from

hemi-

half

hyper-

excessive, above

hypo-

deficient, under

in-

not, into, within

infra-

beneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

in, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

beyond, change

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

abnormal, beside, near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

pro-

before, forward

pseudo-

false

re-

back, again

retro-

behind, backward

sub-

under

supra-

above, upper

syn-, sym-

together, with

tachy-

fast

trans-

across, through

ultra-

beyond, excess

uni-

one