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MED101 Chapter 2
Combining Terms
Term | Definition |
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aer(o) | air; gas |
ather(o) | plaque; fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel) |
blast(o) | immature cells |
calc(o), calci(o) | calcium |
chondrio, chondro | cartilage, grainy, gritty |
chyl(o) | chyle, a digestive juice |
chym(o) | chime, semifluid production of chime in the stomach |
cyst(o), cysti | bladder, cyst, cystic duct |
cyt(o) | cell |
ethm(o) | ethmoid bone |
gluc(o) | glucose |
glyc(o) | sugars |
hydr(o) | hydrogen, water |
ket(o), keton(o) | ketone, acetone |
lip(o) | fat (outside of a blood vessel) |
nucle(o) | nucleus |
plasma, plasmo | formative; plasma |
salping(o) | tube |
sider(o) | iron |
somat(o) | body |
squam(o) | scale; squamous (meaning scaly) |
syring(o) | tube |
algesi(o), algi(o), alg(o) | pain |
cry(o) | cold |
dips(o) | thirst |
esthesi(o) | sensation, perception |
kin(o), kine | movement |
kinesi(o), kines(o) | motion |
phon(o) | sound; voice; speech |
phot(o) | light |
son(o) | sound |
therm(o) | heat |
acanth(o) | spiny; thorny |
andr(o) | masculine |
chlor(o) | chlorine, green |
chrom(o), chromate(o) | color |
crypt(o) | hidden; obscure |
cyan(o) | blue |
eosin(o) | red |
erythr(o) | red; redness |
granul(o) | granular |
gyn(o), gyne, gynec(o) | women |
home(o), hom(o) | same; constant |
ichthy(o) | dry; scaly; fishy |
idi(o) | distinct; unknown |
immune(o) | safe; immune |
leuk(o) | white |
macr(o) | large; long |
meg(a), megal(o) | large; million |
melan(o) | black; dark |
micr(o) | small; tiny |
mio | smaller; less |
morph(o) | structure; shape |
norm(o) | normal |
physi(o) | physical; natural |
pseud(o) | false |
scler(o) | hardness; hardening |
scolio | crooked; bent |
sphere(o) | round; spherical |
staphyl(o) | grapelike clusters |
sten(o) | narrowness |
strpt(o) | twisted chains; streptococci |
terat(o) | monster (as a malformed fetus) |
zanth(o) | yellow |
bacill(i) | bacilli; bacteria |
bacteri(o) | bacteria |
carcin(o) | cancer |
kyph(o) | humpback |
onch(o), onc(o) | tumor |
pachy | thick |
path(o) | disease |
pyr(o) | fever; fire; heat |
schist(o) | split |
schiz(o) | split; division |
spasm(o) | spasm |
anteri(o) | front |
dextr(o) | right, towards the right |
dors(o) | back |
gonio | angle |
later(o) | lateral, to one side |
medi(o) | middle; medial plane |
mes(o) | middle; median |
orth(o) | straight; normal |
top(o) | place; topical |
crin(o) | secrete |
gen(o) | producing; being born |
hypn(o) | sleep |
log(o) | speech, words, thought |
narc(o) | sleep; numbness |
phago | eating, devouring, swallowing |
somn(o), somni | sleep |
spir(o) | breath, breathe |
actin(o) | light |
amyl(o) | starch |
bar(o) | weight; pressure |
bas(o), basi(o) | base |
bio- | life |
chem(o) | chemical |
chrono | time |
coni(o) | dust |
cycl(o) | circle; cycle |
dyna, dynam(o) | force; energy |
echo | reflected sound |
electr(o) | electricity |
eti(o) | cause |
fibr(o) | fiber |
fluor(o) | light, luminous; fluorine |
fungi | fungus |
galact(o) | milk |
ger(o), geront(o) | old age |
lact(o), lacti | milk |
lith(o) | stone |
lys(o) | dissolution, destruction |
necr(o) | death, dying |
noct(o) | night |
nyct(o) | night |
pharmaco | drugs; medicine |
phyt(o) | plant |
py(o) | pus |
radio | radiation, x-ray; radius |
stere(o) | three-dimensional |
tel(o), tele(o) | distant, end; complete |
ton(o) | tension, pressure |
toxi, toxic(o), tox(o) | poison, toxin |
troph(o) | food, nutrition |