Ch.1 Basic Word Structure

• aden/o


  gland
• arthr/o


  joint
• bi/o


  life
• carcin/o


  cancerous, cancer
• cardi/o


  heart
• cephal/o


  head
• cerebr/o


  cerebrum (largest part of the brain)
• cis/o


  to cut
• crin/o


  to secrete (to form and give off)
• cyst/o


  urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)
• cyt/o


  cell
• derm/o or dermat/o


  skin
• electr/o


  electricity
• encephal/o


  brain
• enter/o


  intestines (usually the small intestine)
• erythr/o


  red
• gastr/o


  stomach
• glyc/o


  sugar
• gnos/o


  knowledge
• gynec/o


  woman, female
• hemat/o or hem/o


  blood
• hepat/o


  liver
• iatr/o


  treatment, physician
• leuk/o


  white
• log/o


  study of
• nephr/o[Greek; used with other suffixes such as -osis, -itis, and -ectomy (greek) to describe abnormal conditions and operative procedures]


  kidney
• neur/o


  nerve
• onc/o


  tumor (cancerous)
• ophthalm/o


  eye
• oste/o


  bone
• path/o


  disease
• ped/o


  child
• psych/o


  mind
• radi/o


  x-rays
• ren/o[Latin; used with -al (latin) to describe the ______]


  kidney
• rhin/o


  nose
• sarc/o


  flesh
• sect/o


  to cut
• thromb/o


  clot, clotting
• ur/o


  urinary tract, urine