Language of Medicine Chapter 4
1.Carp/o: Wrist bones
2.Cib/o: Meals
3.Cis/o: To cut
4.Cost/o: Rib
5.Cutane/o: Skin
6.Dactyl/o: Fingers, toes
7.Duct/o: To lead, carry
8.Flex/o: To bend
9.Furc/o: Forking, branching
10.Gloss/o: Tongue
11.Gylc/o: Sugar
12.Immun/o: Protection
13.Morph/o: Shape, form
14.Mort/o: Death
15.Nat/i: Birth
16.Nect/o: To bind, tie, connect
17.Norm/o: Rule, order
18.Ox/o: Oxygen
19.Pub/o: Pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
20.Seps/o: Infection
21.Somn/o: Sleep
22.Son/o: Sound
23.The/o: To put, place
24.Thel/o: Nipple
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25.Thryr/o: Place, position, location
26.Tox/o: Poison
27.Trache/o: Windpipe, trachea
28.Urethr/o: Urethra
29.-blast: Embryonic, immature
30.-crine: To secreteq
31.-cyesis: pregnancy
32.-drome: to run
33.-fusion: Coming together, to pour
34.-gen: substance that produces
35.-lapse: to slide, fall, sag
36.-lysis: breakdown, destruction, separation
37.-meter: to measure
38.-mission: to send
39.-or: one who
40.-partum: birth, labor
41.-phoria: to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
42.-physis: to grow
43.-plasia: development, formation
44.-pnea: breathing
45.-ptosis: falling, dropping, prolapse
46.-rrhea: flow, disharge
47.-stasis: stopping, controlling
48.-trophy: development, noursihment
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1.Carp/o: Wrist bones
2.Cib/o: Meals
3.Cis/o: To cut
4.Cost/o: Rib
5.Cutane/o: Skin
6.Dactyl/o: Fingers, toes
7.Duct/o: To lead, carry
8.Flex/o: To bend
9.Furc/o: Forking, branching
10.Gloss/o: Tongue
11.Gylc/o: Sugar
12.Immun/o: Protection
13.Morph/o: Shape, form
14.Mort/o: Death
15.Nat/i: Birth
16.Nect/o: To bind, tie, connect
17.Norm/o: Rule, order
18.Ox/o: Oxygen
19.Pub/o: Pubis (pubic bone); anterior portion of the pelvic or hipbone
20.Seps/o: Infection
21.Somn/o: Sleep
22.Son/o: Sound
23.The/o: To put, place
24.Thel/o: Nipple
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25.Thryr/o: Place, position, location
26.Tox/o: Poison
27.Trache/o: Windpipe, trachea
28.Urethr/o: Urethra
29.-blast: Embryonic, immature
30.-crine: To secreteq
31.-cyesis: pregnancy
32.-drome: to run
33.-fusion: Coming together, to pour
34.-gen: substance that produces
35.-lapse: to slide, fall, sag
36.-lysis: breakdown, destruction, separation
37.-meter: to measure
38.-mission: to send
39.-or: one who
40.-partum: birth, labor
41.-phoria: to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)
42.-physis: to grow
43.-plasia: development, formation
44.-pnea: breathing
45.-ptosis: falling, dropping, prolapse
46.-rrhea: flow, disharge
47.-stasis: stopping, controlling
48.-trophy: development, noursihment
49.a-
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