Sensory System - Word Parts

acous/o

hearing

acoust/o

hearing, sound

ambly/o

dull, dim

aque/o

water

audi/o, audit/o

hearing

blephar/o

eyelid

cerumin/o

cerumen- ear wax

cochle/o

cochlea

conjunctiv/o

conjunctiva (to join together)

cor/o, core/o

pupil

corne/o

cornea

cyst/o

cyst, bladder, fluid sac

dacry/o

tear

dipl/o

double

glauc/o

gray

graph/o

writing

gustat/o

sense of taste

ir/o, irid/o

iris

kerat/o

cornea; hard, horny tissue

lacrim/o

tears

mi/o

smaller, less

mydr/o

widen, enlarge

myring/o

tympanic membrane (eardrum)

nyct/o

night

ocul/o

eye

ophthalm/o

eye

opt/o, optic/o

eye, vision

ossic/o

ossicle (small bone)

ot/o

ear

papill/o

optic disc; nipple-like

phac/o, phak/o

lens of the eye

phot/o

light

presby/o

old age

retin/o

retina

salping/o

Eustachian (auditory) tube; fallopian tube

scot/o

darkness

staped/o

stapes (middle ear bone)

steat/o

fat, lipid, sebum

stigmat/o

point

vestibul/o

vestibule

vitr/o

vitreous body (of the eye)

vitre/o

glassy

a-, an-

not, without

ec-

out, outside

en-

in; within

eso-

inward

exo-

outward

hyper-

above; above normal; excessive

hypo-

below; below normal; deficient

intra-

within, into

-al, -atic, -ic, -ory, -ous, -tic

pertaining to

-cusis

hearing

-ectomy

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

-esthesia

feeling, sensation

-ia

condition

-ion

process; state; condition

-ism

process, condition

-itis

inflammation

-metry

process of measuring

-oma

tumor, mass

-opia

vision condition

-osmia

smell condition

-otia

ear condition

-pathy

disease condition

-plasty

surgical repair

-ptosis

drooping; sag; prolapse; protrude

-sclerosis

hardening; thickening

-scope

instrument used to view

-scopy

visual examination using a scope

-tomy

process of cutting, incision

-tropia

to turn