Combining Forms for Selected Body Structures

Combining form and word association

19 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Aden/o
Gland, adenoids
Angi/o
Vessel, angiogram xray film of vessels
Append/o
Appendix, appendectomy is excision of appendix
Bi/o
Life or living, biology
Blephar/o
Eyelid, blepharoptosis is the dropping of the upper eyelid
Cerebr/o
Brain, cerebral palsy is paralysis of the brain defect
Chir/o
Hand, chirospasm is writers cramp
Col/o
Colon or large intestine, Colonoscopy is visual examination of the colon
Cutane/o
Skin, cutaneous means pertaining to the skin
Faci/o
Face, facial pertains to skin
Hapet/o
Liver, hepatitis is inflammatory condition of liver
Mamm/o
Breast, mammography is the use of x-rays to diagnose breast diseases
Muscul/o
Muscle, muscular is a person with well developed muscles
Myel/o
Bone marrow or spinal cord, myelopathy has two meaning: any disease of spinal cord or bone marrow.
Oste/o
Bone, osteoarthritis is a commone type of arhtritis of older persons.