Medical Terminology Ch. 10

Front 1

cerebell/o

Back 1

cerebellum

Front 2

cerebr/o

Back 2

cerebrum

Front 3

dur/o

Back 3

dura mater

Front 4

encephal/o

Back 4

brain

Front 5

gli/o

Back 5

glial cells

Front 6

lept/o

Back 6

thin, slender

Front 7

menig/o
menigi/o

Back 7

membranes, meninges

Front 8

my/o

Back 8

muscle

Front 9

myel/o

Back 9

spinal cord (or bone marrow)

Front 10

neur/o

Back 10

nerve

Front 11

pont/o

Back 11

pons

Front 12

radicul/o

Back 12

nerve root (of spinal nerves)

Front 13

thalam/o

Back 13

thalamus

Front 14

thec/o

Back 14

sheath (refers to meninges)

Front 15

vag/o

Back 15

vagus nerve (10th cranial nerve)

Front 16

alges/o
-algesia

Back 16

excessive sensitivity to pain

Front 17

-algia

Back 17

pain

Front 18

caus/o

Back 18

burning

Front 19

comat/o

Back 19

deep sleep (coma)

Front 20

esthesi/o
-esthesia

Back 20

feeling, nervous sensation

Front 21

kines/o, kenesi/o
-kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic

Back 21

movement

Front 22

-lepsy

Back 22

seizure

Front 23

lex/o

Back 23

word, phrase

Front 24

-paresis

Back 24

weakness

Front 25

-phasia

Back 25

speech

Front 26

-phagia

Back 26

swallow, eat

Front 27

-plegia

Back 27

paralysis (loss/impairment of the ability to move parts of the body)

Front 28

-praxia

Back 28

action

Front 29

-stenia

Back 29

strength

Front 30

syncop/o

Back 30

to cut off, cut short

Front 31

tax/o

Back 31

order, coordination

Front 32

angi/o

Back 32

vessel

Front 33

cephal/o

Back 33

head

Front 34

crani/o

Back 34

skull

Front 35

cry/o

Back 35

cold

Front 36

hydr/o

Back 36

water, fluid

Front 37

narc/o

Back 37

stupor, sleep, numbness

Front 38

olig/o

Back 38

scanty

Front 39

spin/o

Back 39

spine

Front 40

troph/o
-trophy

Back 40

nourishment, development
(- = condition of)

Front 41

a-
an-

Back 41

no, not, without

Front 42

dys-

Back 42

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

Front 43

epi-

Back 43

above, upon

Front 44

hemi-

Back 44

half

Front 45

hyper-

Back 45

excessive, above

Front 46

hypo-

Back 46

deficient, below

Front 47

intra-

Back 47

within, into

Front 48

inter-

Back 48

between

Front 49

micro-

Back 49

small

Front 50

para-

Back 50

near, beside, abnormal, apart from, along side of

Front 51

polio-

Back 51

gray matter (of brain or spinal cord)

Front 52

poly-

Back 52

many, much

Front 53

quadri-

Back 53

four

Front 54

sub-

Back 54

below, under

Front 55

-blast

Back 55

embryonic, immature cell

Front 56

-cele

Back 56

hernia

Front 57

-gram

Back 57

record

Front 58

-graphy

Back 58

process of recording

Front 59

-ine

Back 59

pertaining to

Front 60

-itis

Back 60

inflammation

Front 61

-oma

Back 61

tumor, mass, fluid collection

Front 62

-ose

Back 62

full of, pertaining to, sugar

Front 63

-pathy

Back 63

disease, emotion

Front 64

-ptosis

Back 64

droop, sag, prolapse, protrude

Front 65

-sclerosis

Back 65

hardening

Front 66

-tomy

Back 66

process of cutting