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MedTerm Chap 4
LOM Chapter 4 Terms
Question | Answer |
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carp/o | wrist bones |
cib/o | meals |
cis/o | to cut |
cost/o | rib |
cutane/o | skin |
dactyl/o | fingers/toes |
duct/o | to lead, carry |
flex/o | bend |
furc/o | forking, branching |
gloss/o | tongue |
glyc/o | sugar |
immun/o | protection |
morph/o | shape, form |
mort/o | death |
nat/i | birth |
nect/o | to bind, tie, connect |
norm/o | rule, order |
ox/o | oxygen |
pub/o | pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hip bone |
seps/o | infection |
somn/o | sleep |
son/o | sound |
the/o | to put, place |
thel/o | nipple |
thyr/o | shield; the shape of the thyroid gland resembled a shield to those who named it. |
top/o | place, position, location |
tox/o | poison |
trache/o | windpipe, trachea |
urethr/o | urethra |
-blast | embryonic, immature |
-cyesis | pregnancy |
-drome | to run |
-fusion | coming together; to pour |
-gen | producing, forming |
-lapse | to slide, fall, sag |
-lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
-meter | to measure |
-mission | to send |
-or | one who |
-partum | birth, labor |
-phoria | to bear, carry; feeling (mental state) |
-physis | to grow |
-plasia, -plasm | development, formation |
-pnea | breathing |
-ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
-rreha | flow, discharge |
-stasis | stop, control; place |
-trophy | nourishment, development |
a-, an- | no, not, without |
ab- | away from |
ad- | toward |
ana- | up, apart |
ante- | before, forward |
anti- | against |
auto- | self, own |
bi- | two |
brady- | slow |
cata- | down |
con- | with, together |
contra- | against, opposite |
de- | down, lack of |
dia- | thorough, complete |
dys- | bad, painful, difficult, abnormal |
ec-, ecto | out, outside |
en-, endo- | in, inside |
epi- | upon, on, above |
eu- | good, normal |
ex- | out, away from |
hemi- | half |
hyper- | excessive |
hypo- | deficient, under |
in- | not, into, within |
infra- | beneath |
inter- | between |
intra- | into, within |
macro- | large |
mal- | bad |
meta- | beyond, change |
micro- | small |
neo- | new |
pan- | all |
para- | abnormal, beside, near |
per- | through |
peri- | surrounding |
poly- | many, much |
post- | after, behind |
pre- | before, in front of |
pro- | before, forward |
pseudo- | false |
re- | back, again |
retro- | behind, backward |
sub- | under |
supra- | above, upper |
syn-, sym- | together, with |
tachy- | fast, rapid |
ultra- | beyond, excess |
uni- | one |
phor/o | mood |
therm/o | heat |
trans- | across, through |