respiratory system CH13

alveol/o: air sac

lob/o: lobe

somn/o: sleep

cyan/o: blue

-ptysis: to spit

ventil/o: wind

-centesis: surgical puncture

brady-: slow

constrict/o: narrow

-tic: pertaining to

-thorax: chest

rhin/o: nose

dys-: bad, painful, difficult

-ism: condition

-al: pertaining to

embol/o: a plug

hem/o: blood

trache/o: windpipe

peri-: around

cost/o: rib

cyst/o: sac, bladder

pneumon/o: lung, air

-plasty: surgical repair

in-: in, not

re-: again, back, backward

-um: structure

-itic: pertaining to

tachy-: fast

hyper-: excessive, above

-ation: condition, process

stin/o: partition

tonsill/o: tonsil

hale: breathe

para-: near, beside, abnormal

inter-: between

nas/o: nose

ox/o: oxygen

lyt/o: loosen, dissolve, separate

pulmon/o: lung

-logist: specialist in the study of

-ary: pertaining to

tubercul/o: nodule

a-: no, not, without

ex-: out

-ole: small

poly-: much, many

eu-: normal, good

purul/o: pus

pleur/o: lining of lung

capn/o: carbon dioxide

thorac/o: chest

thromb/o: clot

-or: one who

media-: middle

bronchi/o: breathing tube

spir/o: breathing, to breathe

pir/o: breathing, to breathe Note: The s is dropped after a x. Pir/o is derived from spir/o.

tom/o: to cut, to section

pharyng/o: throat

bronch/o: breathing tube

aden/o: gland

-metry: process of measuring

-ectomy: excision

anthrac/o: coal

pnea: breathing, to breathe

sinus/o: sinus, cavity

-scopy: process of viewing

son/o: sound

dilat/o: expand

py/o: pus

-tomy: incision

-stomy: new opening

pector/o: chest

coni/o: dust

endo-: within

pariet/o: wall

hypo-: deficient, below

sarc/o: flesh

voc/o: voice

-osis: condition

-ectasis: dilation

-itis: inflammation

-logy: study of

pneum/o: lung, air

laryng/o: voice box

muc/o: mucus

-scope: instrument to view

ultra-: beyond

-ent: pertaining to, forming

-graphy: process of recording

phon/o: voice

-meter: instrument to measure

or/o: mouth

-ia: condition

-ate: composed of

-oid: resembling

hyp(o)-: deficient, below The o is dropped if the root begins with an o; derived from hypo-