YeeMST Chapter 4 - Vocabulary Words
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dyee104 on November 29, 2011
Subjects:
Medical Science and Terminology
Classes:
Medical Science and Terminology, Medical Terminology SLC
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 | to bend |
| furc/o | forking, branching |
| gloss/o | tongue |
| glyc/o | sugar |
| immun/o | protection |
| morph/o | shape, form |
| mort/o | death |
| nat/o | birth |
| nect/o | to bind, tie, connect |
| norm/o | rule, order |
| ox/o | oxygen |
| pub/o | pubis |
| seps/o | infection |
| somn/o | sleep |
| son/o | sound |
| the/o | to put, place |
| thel/o | nipple |
| thyr/o | thyroid gland; shield |
| top/o | place, position, location |
| tox/o | poison |
| trache/o | windpipe, trachea |
| urethr/o | urethra |
| -blast | embryonic, immature |
| -crine | to secrete |
| -cyesis | pregnancy |
| -drome | to run |
| -fusion | coming together; to pour |
| -gen | substance that produces |
| -lapse | to side, fall, sag |
| -lysis | breakdown, separation, loosening |
| -meter | to measure |
| -mission | to send |
| -or | one who |
| -partum | birth, labor |
| -phoria | to bear, carry, feeling |
| -physis | to grow |
| -plasia | development, formation |
| -plasm | structure or formation |
| -pnea | breathing |
| -ptosis | droop, sag, prolapse |
| -rrhea | flow, discharge |
| -stasis | stop, control |
| -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- | through, complete |
| dys- | bad, painful, difficult abnormal |
| ec-, ecto- | out, outside |
| en-, endo- | in, within |
| epi- | upon, on, above |
| eu- | good, normal |
| ex- | out, away from |
| hemi- | half |
| hyper- | excessive, above |
| hypo- | deficient, under |
| in- | not |
| in- | 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 |
| trans- | across, through |
| ultra- | beyond, excess |
| uni- | one |
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