click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 3 quiz words
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Articul/o | Joint |
Card/o, cardi/o | Heart |
duct/o | To lead; to carry |
electr/o | electricity |
Fasci/o | Fibrous band; Fascia |
Fiber/o | Fiber |
Flex/o | To bend |
Kines/o, Kinesi/o | movement |
Lei/o | Smooth |
Muscul/o | Muscle |
my/o, myos/o | Muscle |
myocardi/o | heart muscle |
neur/o | nerve |
orth/o | straight; normal |
ped/o | Child; foot |
plant/o | sole of the feet |
radi/o | X-rays |
rhabd/o | rod-shaped |
Sarc/o | Flesh; connective tissue |
son/o | Sound |
tax/o | coordination; order |
ten/o, tendin/o, tendon/o | Tendon |
tens/o | stretched; strained |
ton/o | tone; tension |
vers/o | turn; turning |
a-, an- | not; without |
ab- | away; away from |
ad- | toward |
bi- | two |
brady- | slow |
circum- | around |
dorsi- | back |
dys- | painful; difficult |
e-, ex- | out; away from |
hemi- | half |
hyper- | above; above normal; excessive |
hypo- | below; below normal;deficient |
in- | in; into;not |
par-, para- | near; beside; alongside; beyond; abnormal |
quadri- | four |
Tachy- | fast |
Tri- | three |
-ac, -al, -ar, -ic | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-asthenia | weakness |
-cele | hernia; swelling; protrusion |
-ceps | heads (attachments) |
-dynia | pain |
-ectomy | surgical removal; excision |
-esthesia | sensation |
-gram | record; image |
-graphy | process of recording |
-ia | condition |
-ion | process; state; condition |
-itis | inflammation |
-ology | study of |
-lysis | breakdown; separation; loosening |
-malacia | softening |
-oma | tumor; mass |
-paresis | weakness |
-penia | deficiency |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-plegia | paralysis |
-plegic | pertaining to paralysis |
-rrhexis | rupture |
-scope | instrument used to view |
-scopy | visual examination using a scope |
-tomy | process of cutting; incision |
-tonia | tone; tension |
-trophy | condition of growth or development |