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Med Term CH 4
Medical Word Elements
Question | Answer |
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cyt/o | cell |
hist/o | tissue |
kary/o nucle/o | nucleus |
anter/o | anterior, front |
caud/o | tail |
cephal/o | head |
dist/o | far, farthest |
dors/o | back (of body) |
infer/o | lower, below |
later/o | side, to one side |
medi/o | middle |
poster/o | back (of body), behing, posterior |
proxim/o | near, nearest |
ventr/o | belly, belly side |
albin/o leuk/o | white |
chrom/o | color |
cirrh/o jaund/o xanth/o | yellow |
cyan/o | blue |
erythr/o | red |
melan/o | black |
poli/o | gray |
radi/o | radiation, x-ray; radius (lower arm bone on thumb side) |
tom/o | to cut |
viscer/o | internal organs |
-ar -ic | pertaining to |
-graphy | process of recording |
infra- | below, under |
peri- | around |
super- | upper, above |
ultra- | excess, beyond |