Medical Terminology Flashcards
Immune System
- CARCIN/O: cancerous
- ONC/O: tumor
Integumentary System
- CUTANE/O: skin
- DERM/O, DERMAT/O: skin
- HIDR/O: sweat
- SEB/O: sebum
- UNGU/O: nail
- XER/O: dry
Lymphatic System
- LYMPH/O, LYMPHAT/O: lymph
- SPLEN/O: spleen
Muscular System
- KINESI/O: movement
- MY/O: muscle
- TEN/O, TEND/O, TENDIN/O: tendon
Nervous System
- ENCEPHAL/O: brain
- MENING/O: meninges, membranes
- NEUR/I, NEUR/O: nerve, nerve tissue
Reproductive System
- COLP/O: vagina
- HYSTER/O: uterus
- MEN/O: menstruation, menses
- METR/O, METRI/O, METR/I: uterus
- OV/O: egg
- OOPHOR/O, OVARI/O: ovary
- ORCH/O, ORCHID/O: testicles, testis, testes
- SALPING/O: uterine (fallopian) tube, auditory (Eustachian) tube
- UTER/O: uterus
- VAGIN/O: vagina
Respiratory System
- BRONCH/O, BRONCHI/O: bronchial tube, bronchus
- LARYNG/O: larynx (voice box)
- PHARYNG/O: pharynx (throat)
- PLEUR/O: pleura
- DIAPHRAGMAT/O: diaphragm
- PULM/O, PULMON/O: lung
- TRACHE/O: trachea, windpipe
Skeletal System
- ANKLY/O: crooked, bent, stiff
- ARTHR/O: joint
- CHONDR/O: cartilage
- COST/O: rib
- CRANI/O: skull
- OSS/E, OSS/I, OST/O, OSTE/O: bone
- SPONDYL/O, VERTEBR/O: vertebra, spine
Skeletal & Nervous System
- MYEL/O: spinal cord, bone marrow
Skeletal & Respiratory System
Special Senses & Integumentary System
- KERAT/O: horny, hard, cornea
- SCLER/O: sclera, hard
Special Senses
- MYRING/O: tympanic membrane, eardrum
- OCUL/O: eye
- OT/O: ear
- RETIN/O: retina
- TYMPAN/O: tympanic membrane, eardrum
Urinary & Digestive System
Urinary System
- CYST/O: urinary bladder, cyst, sac of fluid
- NEPHR/O: kidney
- PYEL/O: renal pelvis, bowl of kidney
- REN/O: kidney
- URETER/O: ureter
- URETHR/O: urethra