Med-terms

• word root: core part of the word, usually indicates part of the body/organ
• combining vowel: put on the end of the word root to ease pronunciation (between 2 word roots, when a suffix begins with a consonant)
• suffix: attached to the end of a root, often indicates procedure, condition, disorder, or disease
• prefix: attached to the front of a word root, often indicates location, number, time or status
• eponyms: terms named after a person or place
• muscle tissue: specialized for contraction, allow for bones to change their angel relative to one another
• nervous tissue: carry electrical signals to and from the brain an/or spinal cord
• connective tissue: group of similar tissues - tendons, fat, bone, or cartilage
• epithelial tissue: forms coverings and linings - skin, mouth lining, stomach lining
• cranial cavity: formed by the bones in the skull, contains the brain
• spinal cavity: formed by the vertebrae, contains the spinal cord
• abdominal cavity: enclosed by the belly muscles, contains the visceral organs
• visceral organs: intestines, liver, kidneys, pancreas, stomach, spleen
• pelvic cavity: formed by the hip bones, contains the bladder, pancreas, reproductive systems, and rectum
• epitheli/o 


  epithelial tissue
• hyst/o

  tissue
• my/o


  muscle tissue
• neur/o

  nervous tissue
• sarc/o

  connective tissue or flesh
• fibr/o

  connective tissue with many fibers
• lip/o

  connective tissue with a lot of fat
• carcin/o

  cancer
• cancer/o

  cancer
• onc/o


  tumor or mass
• eti/o


  cause of a disease
• gn/o

  knowledge
• iatr/o


  branch of medicine
• path/o

  disease
• chrom/o


  color
• leuk/o


  white
• melan/o

  black
• erythr/o


  red
• rubr/o

  red
• xanth/o

  yellow
• cirrh/o

  yellow
• cyan/o

  blue
• dia-

  complete, all the way through
• dys-

  difficult, labored, painful, abnormal
• meta-

  after or beyond
• neo-

  new