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carp/o

wrist bones
cib/o

meals
cis/o

to cut
cost/o

rib
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/i

birth
nect/o

to bind, tie, connect
norm/o

rule, order
ox/o

oxygen
pub/o

pubic bone
seps/o

infection
somn/o

sleep
son/o

sound
the/o

to put, place
thel/o

nipple
thyr/o

throid gland; sheild
top/o

place, position, location
tox/o

poision
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 slide, fall, sag
-lysis

breakdown, destruction, separation
-meter
to measure
-mission

to send
-or

one who
-partum

birth, labor
-phoria

to bear, carry; feeling(mental state)
-physis

to grow
-plasia

development, formation or growth
-plasm

stucture or formation
-pnea

breathing
-ptosis

prolapse, falling, drooping
-rrhea

flow, discharge
-stasis

stopping,controlling
-trophy

development, nourishment
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, oppisite
de-

down, lack of
dia-

through, complete
dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
ec-, ectop

out, outside
en-, endop

in, within
epi-

upon, on, above
eu-

good, normal
ex-

out, outside, away from
hemi-

half
hyper-

excessive, above
hypo-

deficient, under
in-

not, into, within
infra-

beneath, under
inter-

between
intra-

in, within, into
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
pro-

before forward
pseudo-

false
re-

back, again
retro-

behind, backward
sub-

under
supra-

above, upper
syn-, sym-

together, with
tachy-

fast
trans-

through, across
ultra-
beyond, excess
uni-

one
an/o

anus
append/o, appendic/o

appendix
bucc/o

cheek
cec/o

cecum
celi/o

belly, abdomen
cheil/o

lip
cholecyst/o

gallbladder
col/o

colon, large intestine
choledoch/o

common bile duct
colon/o

colon
dent/i

tooth
duoden/o

duodenum
enter/o

intestines, usually small intestine
esophag/o

esophagus
faci/o

face
gastro/o

stomach
gingiv/o

gums
gloss/o

tongue
hepat/o

liver
ile/o

ileum
jejun/o

jejunum
labi/o

lip
lapar/o

abdomen
lingu/o

tongue
mandibul/o

lower jaw, mandible
odont/o

tooth
or/o

mouth
palat/o

palate
pancreat/o

pancreas
peritone/o

peritoneum
pharyng/o

throat
prot/o

anus and rectum
pylor/o

pyloric sphincter
rect/o

rectum
sialaden/o

salivary gland
sigmoid/o

sigmoid colon
stomat/o

mouth
uvul/o

uvula
amyl/o

starch
bil/i, chol/e

gall, bile
bilirubin/o

bilirubin (bile pigment)
chlorgydr/o

hydrochloric acid
glyc/o

sugar
gluc/o

sugar
glycogen/o

glycogen, animal starch
lip/o

fat, lipid
lith/o

sotne
prote/o

protien
sial/o

saliva, salivary
steat/o

fat
-ase

enzyme
-chezia

defecation, elimination of waste
-iasis

abnormal condition
-prandial

meal
-ectasis, -ectasia

strecthing, dilation, widening
-emesis

vomiting
-lysis

destruction, breakdown, seperation
-pepsia

digestion
-phagia

eating, swallowing
-plasty

surgical repair
-ptysis

spitting
-rrhage, rrhagia

bursting forth (of blood)
-rrhaphy

structure
-rrhea

flow or discharge
-spasm

involuntary contration of muscles
-stasis

stopping; controlling
-stenosis
tightening, stricture, narrowing
-tresia

opening

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chapters 4-6

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2012-08-30T20:55:20Z

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