Interior root words / combining forms

Abdomin/o

abdomen

Acanth/o

spiny or thorny

Acetabul/o

Acetablum - the socket of the hip joint

Acromi/o

Acromium - the highest bony point of the shoulder blade

Aden/o

gland

Adip/o

fat

Adren/o

adrenal gland

alveoli/o

air sac

an/o

anus

aort/o

aorta

arteri/o, ater/o

artery

arteriol/o

arteriole

aspir/o

to breathe in

ather/o, atricul/o

joint

arher/o

plaque, fat

atri/o

atrium

audi/o, aur/i

hearing

balan/o

glans penis

bio

life

bronch/i, bronch/o

bronchus (major airway passage)

bronchio/o, bronchiol/i

bronchiolie

carcin/o

cancer

cardi/o

heart

cellul/o

cell

cerebell/o

cerebullum

cerebr/i , cerebr/o

cerebrum

cholangi/o , chol/e

bile duct

choledoch/o

common bile duct

chondr/i , chondr/o

cartillage

chrom/o, chromat/o

color

col/o , colon/o

colon

colp/o

vagina

cost/o

rib

cry/o

cold

crypt/o

hidden

cyan/o

blue

cysti, cyst/o

bladder or cyst

cyt/o

cell

dipl/o

double or twice

duoden/o

duodenum (first and shortest section of the small intestine)

encephal/o

brain

enter/o

intestine

episi/o

vulva

erythr/o

red

esophag/o

esophagus

fibr/o

fibers

galact/o

milk

gastr/o

stomach

glyc/o

sugar

gynec/o

female

hemat/o , hem/o

blood

hepat/o, hepatic/o

liver

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o , histi/o

tissue

hom/o, home/o

same, alike

hydr/o

water, wet

hyster/o

uterus

latr/o

treatment

lle/o

ileum (intestine)

lli/o

llium (pelvic bone)

intestin/o

intestine

jejun/o

jejunum (middle section of small intestine)

kerat/o

cornea of eye

lacrima

tears

laryng/o

larynx

leuk/o

white

lipid/o

fat

fat

lith/o

stone

lymph/o

lymph vessels

melan/o

black

men/o

menses, menstration

mening/o

meninges (protective membranes that cover and support the brain)

metr/a , metr/o

uterus

my/o

muscle

myel/o

bone marrow or spinal cord

myring/o

eardrum

nat/o

birth

necr/o

death

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

nerve

oophar/o

ovary

orchid/o, orchi/o

testis

oss/eo, oss/i , ost/e, ost/eo

bone

palat/o

roof of mouth

path/o

disease

peritone/o

peritoneum (the largest serious membrane in the body)

pharmac/o

drug

pharyng/o

pharynx

phleb/o

vein

phren/o

diagram

pleur/o

pleura, rib (side)

pneum/a, pneum/o , pneum/ato , pneum/ono

lungs

poli/o

gray matter or nervous system

proct/o

rectum, anus

pulmon/o

lungs

py/o

pus

pyel/o

pelvis of kidney

rect/o

rectum

ren/i , ren/o

kidney

sacr/o

sacrum (a large, triangular, shield-shaped bone located at the base of the lumbar spine )