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Chapter 7
Ch 7 - Urinary System - Combining Forms, Suffixes, Prefixes
Prefixes | meaning |
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albumin/o | albumin (protein) |
angi/o | vessel (blood) |
azot/o | urea; nitrogen |
bacteri/o | bacteria |
cali/o | calyx |
calic/o | calyx |
cyst/o | urinary bladder; cyst; sac of fluid |
dips/o | thirst |
glomerul/o | glomerulus |
glycos/o | glucose; sugar |
hydr/o | water |
isch/o | to hold back; back |
ket/o | keytones; acetones |
keton/o | keytones; acetones |
lith/o | stone; calculus |
meat/o | meatus (opening) |
necr/o | death |
nephr/o | kidney |
noct/o | night |
olig/o | scanty |
py/o | pus |
pyel/o | renal pelvis |
ren/o | kidney |
trigon/o | trigone (area within the bladder) |
ur/o | urine; urinary tract |
ureter/o | ureter |
urethr/o | urethra |
urin/o | urine |
vesic/o | urinary bladder |
-ectasis | dilation; dilatation; widening |
-ectomy | removal; excision; resection |
-emia | blood condition |
-esis | action; condition; state of |
-gram | record |
-lithiasis | condition of stones |
-lithotomy | incision (for removal) of a stone |
-lysis | breakdown; separation; destruction; loosening |
-megaly | enlargement |
-ole | little; small |
-osis | conditon, usually abnormal |
-pathy | disease; emotion |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-poietin | substance that forms |
-ptosis | droop; sag; prolapse; protrude |
-rrhea | flow; discharge |
-sclerosis | hardening |
-stenosis | tightening; stricture |
-stomy | new opening (to form a mouth) |
-tomy | process of cutting |
-tripsy | to crush |
-uria | urination; condition of urine |
a-, an- | no; not; without |
anti- | against |
dia- | complete; through |
dys- | bad; painful; difficult; abnormal |
en- | in; within |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many; much |
retro- | behind; back; backward |