ETY101 Seneca Medical Etymology

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a.c.
- ante cibos.
- before meals.
p.c.
- post cibos
- after meals
ad lib.
- ad libitum
- as desired
b.i.d.
- bis in die
- twice daily
t.i.d
- ter in die
- three times a day
q.i.d
- quarter in die
- four times a day
c
- cum
- with
s
- sine
- without
gtts
- guttae
- drops
h.s.
- hora somni
- bed time
o.d.
- oculus dexter
- right eye
o.s.
- oculus sinister
- left eye
o.u.
- oculus uterque
- both eyes
p.o.
- per os
- by mouth
n.p.o.
- nil per os
- nothing by mouth
p.r.n.
- pro re nata
- as required
q.
- quisque
- every
q.h.
- quaque hora
- every hour
q.2h

every 2 hours
q.3h

every three hours
q.6h.

every six hours
q.d
- quaque die
- every day
q.o.d.

every other day
q.n.
- quaque nocte
- every night
Rx
- symbol for recipe
- means to take
S.O.B.

shortness of breath
S.O.S

only once if necessary
stat.
- statim
- immediately
abdomin/o

abdomen
acr/o

extremity or point
acu/o

sharp, severe, sudden
aden/o

gland
adip/o

fat
amni/o

sac surrounding the embryo
angi/o

vessel
arteri/o

artery
arthr/o

joint
axill/o

armpit
bi/o

life
blephar/o

eyelid
bronch/o

bronchial tubes
carcin/o

cancer
cardi/o

heart
chem/o

drug or chemical
chondr/o

cartilage
chron/o

time
col/o

colon
cyst/o

urinary bladder
encephal/o

brain
erythr/o

red
hem/o

blood
-algia

pain
-cele

hernia
-centesis

surgically remove fluid
-coccus

berry-shaped bacteria
-cyte

cell
-dynia

pain
-ectomy

removal
-emia

blood condition
-genesis

producing or forming
-gram

record
-graph

instrument of recording
-graphy

process of recording
-itis

inflammation
-logy

study of
-lysis

break down
-malacia

softening
-megaly

enlargement
-oma

tumor, mass, collection of fluid
-opsy

to view
-osis

abnormal condition
-pathy

disease condition
-penia

deficiency
-phobia

fear
-plasia

formation
-plasty

surgical repair
-ptosis

falling, dropping, prolapse
-sclerosis

hardening
-scope

instrument for viewing
-scopy

visual examination
-stasis

controlling
-stomy

opening to form a mouth
-therapy

treatment
-eal

pertaining to
-iac

pertaining to
-ior

pertaining to
-ose

pertaining to
-plasm

formation
-type

classification
-somes

bodies
-ism

process, condition
-blast

immature
-crine

secrete
-cyesis

pregnancy
-drome

to run
-fusion

fusion, pouring
-gen

substance that produces
-lapse

slide, fall, sag
-lysis

destruction
-meter

to measure
-mission

to send
-or

one who
-partum

birth or labour
-phoria

to bear, carry
-physis

to grow
-plasia

developement, formation
-plasm

formation
-pnea

breathing
-ptosis

falling, dropping, prolapse
-rrhea

flow, discharge
-stasis

controlling
-trophy

development, nourishment
a-

without
an-

without
ab-

away from
carp/o

wrist bones
cib/o

meals
cis/o

to cut
cost/o

rib
cutane/o

skin
dactyl/o

fingers or toes
duct/o

to lead, carry
flex/o

to bend
furc/o

branching
gloss/o

tongue
glyc/o

sugar
immun/o

protection
morph/o

shape, form
mort/o

death
nat/i

birth
nect/o

bind, connect
norm/o

rule, order
ox/o

oxygen
pub/o

pubis, anterior pelvis
seps/o

infection
somn/o

sleep
son/o

sound
the/o

to put, place
thel/o

nipple
thyr/o

thyroid
top/o

place
tox/o

poison
trache/o

windpipe
urethr/o

urethra
hepat/o

liver
hydr/o

water
inguin/o

groin
isch/o

to hold back
lapar/o

abdomen
laryng/o

larynx
leuk/o

white
lymph/o

lymph
ophthalm/o

eye
oste/o

bone
ot/o

ear
path/o

disease
peritone/o

peritoneum
phag/o

eat, swallow
phleb/o

vein
plas/o

developement
pleur/o

pleura
pneumon/o

lungs
pulmon/o

lungs
radi/o

x-rays
rect/o

rectum
ren/o

kidney
rhin/o

nose
sarc/o

flesh
splen/o

spleen
staphyl/o

clusters
strept/o

twisted chains
thorac/o

chest
thromb/o

clot
tonsill/o

tonsils
trache/o

windpipe
ven/o

vein
mamm/o

breast
mast/o

breast
morph/o

shape
muc/o

mucus
my/o

muscle
myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow
necr/o

death
nephr/o

kidney
neur/o

nerve
neutr/o

neutrophil (white blood cell)
nucle/o

nucleus
thel/o

nipple
ventr/o

belly side of body
viscer/o

internal organs
ana-

up
cata-

down
epi-

above
hypo-

below
inter-

between
meta-

change
kary/o

nucleus
later/o

side
lumb/o

lower back
poster/o

back, behind
proxim/o

nearest
sacr/o

sacrum
sarc/o

flesh
spin/o

spine
bol/o

to throw
cervic/o

neck
chondr/o

cartilege
chrom/o

colour
coccyg/o

tail bone
crani/o

skull
cyt/o

cell
dist/o

distant, far
dors/o

back of body
hist/o

tissue
ili/o

ilium
-tomy

incision
-er

one who
-ia

condition
-ist

specialist
-ole

small
-ule

small
-um

tissue
-y

condition
peri-

surrounding
pro-

before
re-

again, back
retro-

behind
sub-

below, under
trans-

across, through
ad-

towards
ana-

up, apart
ante-

before, forward
anti-

against
supra-

above, upper
syn-

together, with
sym-

together, with
tachy-

fast
ultra-

beyond, excess,
uni-

one
inter-

between
intra-

within
macro-

large
mal-

bad
meta-

change
micro-

small
neo-

new
pan-

all
bi/o

life
crin/o

secrete
derm/o

skin
electr/o

electricity
aut/o

self, own
dia-

through, complete
hyper -

excessive
iatr/o

treatment, physician
log/o

study of
onc/o

tumor
ped/o

child
enter/o

intestines
gnos/o

knowledge
gynec/o

woman, female
hepat/o

liver
bi-

two
contra-

against, opposite
brady-

slow
para-

abnormal, beside, near
per-

through
peri-

surrounding
poly-

many
pro-

before, forward
pseudo-

false
eu-

good, normal
hemi-

half
infra-

beneath, under
-oid

resembling
-ion

process
-ist

specialist
sect/o

cut
sarc/o

flesh
rhin/o

nose
thromb/o

clot
ur/o

urine

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