Unit 7 Med Term - Respiratory System

alveol/o alveolus; air sac angi/o vessel (blood) arteri/o artery aspir/o removal atel/o incomplete; imperfect bol/o cast; throw bronch/o bronchus; bronchial tube bronchi/o bronchiole; smaller division of bronchus carcin/o cancer cardi/o heart cyan/o blue diaphragmat/o diaphragm dilat/o to enlarge; expand epiglott/o epiglottis fibr/o fiber hem/o blood hist/o tissue laryng/o larynx; voice box lob/o lobe nas/o nose ox/o, ox/i oxygen pharyng/o pharynx; throat pleur/o pleura; serous membrane around lungs pneum/o, pneumon/o lung; air pulmon/o lung py/o pus resuscit/o to revive rhin/o nose sinus/o sinus; cavity spir/o breathing thorac/o chest tonsill/o tonsils trache/o trachea; windpipe tub/o tube a-, an- not; without anti- against brady- slow dys- painful; difficult em- in endo- in; within epi- on; over; upon hyper- above; above normal; excessive hypo- below; below normal; deficient in- in; into; not poly- many; much tachy- fast -al, -ary, -ial, -ic, -tic pertaining to -ant substance that promotes -ation process; condition -capnia carbon dioxide -ectasis dilation; expansion -ema condition -emia blood condition -genic produced by; produced in -ia condition -ion process; state; condition -ism process; condition -meter measure -metry process of measuring -or one who (or something) that takes action -osmias smell -phonia voice -pnea breathing -ptysis spitting -rrhea flow; excessive discharge -spasm muscle contraction -stenosis narrowing; tightening -stomy surgical opening -tomy process of cutting; incision