Combining Forms

Articulations (a joint or place of junction {the place of meeting or coming together} between two different parts or objects).

Stomach

Eye

Ear

Nose

Gland

Heart

Female, Woman

Blood

Safety, Protection

Kidney

Disease

Lung

Skin

Sweat

Hard, Horny, Cornea

Fungus

Nail

Oil, Sebum (Sebaceous glands produce a substance called sebum, which is responsible for keeping the skin and hair moisturized)

Hair

Fat

Head

Body

Foot, Child

Bone

Muscles

Ligaments (A short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint)

Tendons (A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone)

Fascia (a sheet or band of fibrous tissue such as lies deep to the skin or invests muscles and various body organs)

Cartilage

Ureters

Cortex

Renal pelvis (the funnel-shaped expansion of the upper end of the ureter into which the renal calices open; it is usually within the renal sinus, but under certain conditions a large part of it may be outside the kidney)

Penis

Glans Penis

Prepauce [foreskin] (a covering fold of the skin {it can be the skin of the penis or clitoris})

Semen

Ovum

Ovaries

Tube, Fallopian or Eustachian

Uterus

Cervix (Neck)

Vagina

Veins

Oxygen

Respiration, breathing

Carbon dioxide

Vessel

Brain

Cerebellumb (The part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Responsible for the regulation and coordination of complex voluntary muscular movement and the maintenance of posture and balance.)

Cerebrum (The largest portion of the brain, including practically all the parts within the skull except the medulla, pons, and cerebellum and now usually referring only to the parts derived from the telencephalon and including mainly the cerebral hemispheres that are joined at the bottom by the corpus callosum. It controls and integrates motor, sensory, and higher mental functions, such as thought, reason, emotion, and memory.)

Dendrite (One of the threadlike extensions of the cytoplasm of a neuron; dendrites branch into treelike processes and compose most of the receptive surface of a neuron.

Dura mater (The though, fibrous, outer covering of the meninges {means hard mother}. Then it's the Subdural space {the space between the dura mater and arachnoid membrane}. Then Arachnoid Membrane {a thin delicate membrane that takes its name from its spidery apperance}. Then the Subarachnoid spcae {the spcae between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater} Finally, the pia mater {the thin vascular membranethat is the innermost of the three meninges; means soft mother})

Lobe

Meninges (A series of membranous layers of connective tissue that protect the central nervous system ({brain and spinal cord}).

Nerve

Nerve root

Same

Spinal Cord

Star

Ventricle (The two chambers of the heart that are involved in pumping blood. A hollow part or cavity in an organ, in particular)

Speech

Eat

Sleep

Movement

Feeling

Stone

Taste

Knowledge

To write, Writing

Sense of smell

Purposeful movemnt

Word, Speech

Spine, Vertebra (any of the 33 bones of the vertebral (spinal) column, comprising 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal vertebrae)

Development, Nourishment

Side

Hold back

Fiber

Medulla (The inner region of an organ or tissue)

Embryonic, Immature

Slice, Section, Cutting

Electricity

Lower back

Skull, Cranium

3-Dimensional

Order, Arrangement

Artery (a vessel in which blood flows away from the heart, in the systemic circulation carrying oxygenated blood)

Sitting

Pleasure

Tone, Tension (the act of stretching or straining)

Mind. Thym/o also mens thymus gland

Walking

To carry, to bear

Poison

Pole

Recurring, Round, Ciliary body (the thickened part of the vascular tunic of the eye, connecting the choroid and iris)

A closing

Man

Appetite

Steal

Pulling

Treatment

Canthus (The outer or inner corner of the eye, where the upper and lower lids meet.)

Conjunctiva (The eyelids are lined with a protective think mucous membrane)

Cornea (The transparent layer forming the front of the eye)

Eyelid

Iris (The circular, colored curtain of the eye. The opening of the iris forms the pupil. The iris helps regulate the amount of light that enters the eye)

Lacrimal (tear) gland

Lacrimal (tear) sac

Lens

Macula Lutea (The are of the retina on which the light rays focus)

Pupil

Orbit (The bony socket)

Vision

Larynx (voice box)

Pharynx (throat)

Trachea (windpipe)

Tears

Sclera (The white part of the eye)

Uvea (Thhe middle, highly vascular {carry blood} layer of the eye)

Choroid (The middle lining of the eye, it's behind the eye, between the sclera and the retina)

Glassy, Vitreous humor (AKA Vitreous body, is a jellylike substance between the lens and the retina, which holds the choroid membran agianst the retina to esnsure an adequate blood supply)

Retina (The innermost tunic of the eyeball, containing the neural elements for reception and transmission of visual stimuli. The last layer of the Chroid and Sclera.)

Turning

Light

Dry

Born

Dull, Dim

Double

Color

Night

Darkness

Sound

Nucleous

Organ

Angle

Little Beam

Mastoid process (A hard, small projection of the temporal bone that is behind the opening of the auditory canal)

Cerumen, ear wax

Meatus (An opening leading to the interior of the body)

Eardrum

Ossicle or Ossicular chain (the eardrum condus sound to three tiny bones in the middle ear)

Stapes (It looks like a a flat-based loop or ring hung from either side of a horse's saddle to support the rider's foot in mounting and riding; a stirrup iron. ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear)

Labrinth, Inner ear

Lymph (A colorless fluid containing white blood cells, which bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream)

Vestibule (a space or cavity at the entrance to a canal)

Cochlea (An organ of hearing)

Macula (Found in both the utricle and the saccule, provides information about the positon of the head and a sense of acceleration and deceleration)

Hearing

Gall, Bile (A bitter greenish-brown alkaline fluid that aids digestion and is secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder)

To clot

Optic Disk, Nipple

Nipple

Adrenal Gland (Also called suprarenal glands. These are  endocrine glands that lie like caps on top of the kidneys)

Calcium

Glucose, Sugar

Ketone (The body is using fat for energy)

Gonads (An organ that produces gametes [sex cells]; a testis or ovary)

Pancreas (oblong flattened gland located deep in the abdomen)

Parathyroid gland (any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland)

Potassium

Sodium

Acid

Urine

Pituitary gland (pituitary: the master gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain)

Insulin (A hormone that makes our body's cells absorb glucose from the blood)

Cell

Prolactin (A hormone released from the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates milk production after childbirth)

Epithelial cancer

Thymus gland (An organ in the upper chest cavity that processes lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that fights infections in the body. This organ is part of both the lymphatic system, which makes up a major part of the immune system, and the endocrine system, which includes all glands that produce hormones)

Ray