Chapter 4 Key Terms

Combining form
Combining vowel
Consonant
Medical terminology
Prefix
Suffix
Word part
Word root
Cardi/o
Derm/o
Enter/o
Bucc/o
Lumb/o
Viv/o
It is
Adip/o
Lip/o
Steat/o
Ateri/o
Axill/o
Blephar/o
Cephal/o
Cerebr/o
Encephal/o
Cercvic/o

Cholecyst/o
Col/o
Cost/o
Crani/o
Cyst/o
Cyt/o
Derm/o
Dermat/o
Esophag/o
Hem/o
Hemat/o
Hepat/o
Lapar/o
Laryng/o
Myel/o
My/o
Muscul/o
Nas/o
Rhin/o
Neur/o
Opthalm/o
Ocul/o
Or/o
Stomat/o
Oste/o
Ot/o

Pancreat/o
Pharyng/o
Pneumon/o
Ren/o
Nephr/o
Pneumon/o
Splen/o
Thorac/o
Thyroid/o
Trache/o
Ven/o
Vertebr/o
Phleb/o
Trache/o
-ac
-al
-ar
-ary
-eal
-iac
-ic
-ical
-ose
-ous
-tic
-algia

-centesis
-cide
-cyte
-ectomy
-emia
-gram
-graph
-graphy
-ia
-ism
-itis
-liathasis
-logy
-megaly
-oid
-oma
-otomy
-pathy
-plasty
-plegia
-pnea
-rrhea
-scope
-scopy
-stasis
-stomy

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CDC
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NPO
N&V
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p.c.
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Prn
qh
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Stat
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URI
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