Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
50 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
esthesi/o |
Feeling or sensation |
|
|
gastr/o, enter/o |
Stomach, intestines |
|
|
ger/a, ger/o, geront/o |
Elderly |
|
|
gynec/o |
Female |
|
|
immun/o |
immune |
|
|
ne/o, nat/o |
New, birth |
|
|
neur/o |
Nerve |
|
|
obstetr/o |
Midwife |
|
|
onc/o |
Tumor |
|
|
opthalm/o |
Eye |
|
|
orth/o, ped/o |
Straight, child (sometimes foot) |
|
|
ot/o, laryng/o |
Ear, larynx |
|
|
path/o |
Disease |
|
|
ped/o |
Child (sometimes foot) |
|
|
psych/o |
Mind |
|
|
radi/o |
Radiation (or radius) |
|
|
rheumat/o |
Rheumatism |
|
|
rhin/o |
Nose |
|
|
ur/o |
Urinary tract (or urine) |
|
|
-centesis |
Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid |
|
|
-ectomy |
Excision (surgical removal or cutting out) |
|
|
-lysis |
Process of loosening, or freeing or destroying) |
|
|
-pexy |
Surgical fixation( fastening on a fixed position) |
|
|
-plasty |
Surgical repair |
|
|
-rrhaphy |
Suture ( uniting a wound by stitches) |
|
|
-scopy |
Visual examination with a lighted instrument ( not always a surgical procedure) |
|
|
-stomy |
Formation of an opening |
|
|
-tome |
As instrument used for cutting |
|
|
-tomy |
Incision ( cutting into tissue) |
|
|
-tripsy |
Surgical crushing |
|
|
aden/o |
Gland |
|
|
angi/o |
Vessel |
|
|
append/o, appendic/o |
Appendix |
|
|
bi/o |
Life or living |
|
|
blephar/o |
Eyelid |
|
|
cerebr/o, encephal/o |
Brain |
|
|
chir/o |
Hand |
|
|
Col/o |
Colon or large intestine |
|
|
cutane/o, derm/a, dermat/o |
Skin |
|
|
faci/o |
Face |
|
|
hepat/o |
Liver |
|
|
mamm/o, mast/o |
Breast |
|
|
muscul/o, my/o |
Muscle |
|
|
myel/o |
Bone marrow or spinal cord |
|
|
oste/o |
Bone |
|
|
pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o |
Lungs |
|
|
tonsill/o |
Tonsil |
|
|
trache/o |
Trachea (windpipe) |
|
|
vas/o |
Vessel; ductus deferens |
|
|
-algia, -dynia |
Pain |
