Med Term Week 4

Get a hint

hint

carp/o

carp/o

wrist bones

cis/o

cut

cost/o

rib

cutane/o

skin

dactyl/o

fingers, toes

duct/o

lead, carry

flex/o

bend

furc/o

branching

gloss/o

tongue

glyc/o

sugar

immun/o

protection

morph/o

shape, form

mort/o

death

nat/i

birth

norm/o

rule, order

ox/o

oxygen

pub/o

pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone

seps/o

infection

somn/o

sleep

son/o

sound

tens/o

force, strain, stretch

the/o

put, place

thel/o, theli/o

nipple

thyr/o

thryoid gland; shield (the shape of the thryoid gland reembled [-oid] a shield to those who named it)

top/o

place, position, location

tox/o

poison

trache/o

windpipe, trachea

urethr/o

urethra

-crine

secrete

-drome

run

-fusion

coming together; to pour

-gen

substance that produces

-lapse

slide, fall, sag

-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation

-meter

measure

-mission

send

-or

one who

-oxia

oxygen

-partum

birth, labour

-phoria

bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

-physis

grow

-plasia

development, formation, growth

-plasm

structure or formation

-pnea

breathing

-ptom

happening, occurence

-ptosis

falling, drooping, 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, foward

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-

abnormal, bad difficult, painful

ec-

out, outside

endo-

in, within

epi-

upon, on, above

eu-

good, normal

ex-

out, outside

hemi-

half

hyper-

execcive, above

hypo-

deficient, uinder

in-

not

in-

into, within

infra-

beaneath, under

inter-

between

intra-

in, within, into

macro-

large

mal-

bad

meta-

beyond, change

micro-

small

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

abnormal, beside, near