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Science: Root words
angi/o vessel
arthr/o joint cardi/o heart col/o colon/o large intestine crani/o skull derm/o skin gastr/o stomach hepat/o liver my/o muscle neur/o nerve osteo/o bone rhin/o nose trache/o trachea -ectasis, -ectasia stretching, dialation, widening -emesis vomiting -lysis destruction, breakdown, separation -pepsia digestion -phagia eating, swallowing -plasty surgical repair -ptosis droop; sag; protrude -ptysis spitting -rrhage, -rrhagia bursting forth (of blood) -rrhaphy suture -rrhea flow, discharge -spasm sudden, involuntary -stasis to stop; control -stenosis tightening, stricture, narrowing -tresia opening bucc/o cheek cec/o cecum celi/o belly; abdomen cheil/o lip chol/e bile; gall cholangi/o bile vessel cholecyst/o gallbladder choledoch/o common bile duct col/o colon colon/o colon dent/i tooth duoden/o duodenum enter/o intestines (usually small) esophag/o esophagus gastr/o stomach gingiv/o gum gloss/o tongue glyc/o glucose; sugar hepat/o liver herni/o hernia ile/o ileum jejun/o jejunum labi/o lip lingu/o tongue lip/o fat; lipid lith/o stone; calculus odont/o tooth or/o mouth palat/o palate (roof of the mouth) pancreat/o pancreas proct/o anus & rectum pylor/o pylorus rect/o rectum sialaden/o salivary glands splen/o spleen steat/o fat stomat/o mouth angi/o vessel arthr/o joint cardi/o heart col/o colon/o large intestine crani/o skull derm/o skin gastr/o stomach hepat/o liver my/o muscle neur/o nerve osteo/o bone rhin/o nose trache/o trachea cali/o, calic/o calyx cyst/o urinary bladder glomerul/o glomerulus meat/o meatus nephr/o kidney pyel/o renal pelvis ren/o kidney trigon/o trigone (region of the bladder) ureter/o ureter urethr/o urethra vesic/o urinary bladder albumin/o albumin azot/o nitrogen bacteri/o bacteria dips/o thirst ket/o, keton/o ketone bodies lith/o stone noct/o night olig/o scanty -poietin substance that forms py/o pus -tripsy to crush ur/o urine (urea) urin/o urine -uria urination; urine condition min/o amnion cervic/o cervix, neck chori/o, chorion/o chorion colp/o vagina culd/o cul-de-sac episi/o vulva galact/o milk gynec/o woman, female hyster/o uterus, womb lact/o milk mamm/o breast mast/o breast men/o menses, menstruation metr/o, metri/o uterus my/o, myom/o muscle, muscle tumor nat/i birth obstetr/o pregnancy and childbirth o/o egg oophor/o ovary ov/o egg ovari/o ovary ovul/o egg perine/o perineum phor/o to bear salping/o fallopian tubes uter/o uterus vagin/o vagina vulv/o vulva dys- painful endo- within in- in intra- within multi- many nulli- no, not, none pre- before -arche beginning -cyesis pregnancy -gravida pregnant -parous bearing, bringing forth -rrhea disscharge -salpinx uterine tube -tocia labor, birth -version act of turning primi- first retro- backward ndr/o male balan/o glans penis cry/o cold crypt/o hidden epididym/o epididymis gon/o seed hydr/o water, fluid orch/o, orchi/o, orchid/o testis, testicle prostat/o prostate gland semin/o semen, seed sperm/o, spermat/o spermatozoa, semen terat/o monster test/o testis, testicle varic/o varicose veins vas/o vessel, duct; vas deferens zo/o animal life -genesis formation -one hormone -pexy fixation, put in place -stomy new opening |
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