abdomin
abdomen
acou, acoust
hear
aden
gland
adip
fat
alges
pain
algea feels pain
andr
man/male
andre
angi
vessel
angin
blood vessel
ankyl
fused, stiff
ankyl-losing spondylitis
anter
front
anterior
aort
aorta
main blood vessel supplying blood to the circulatory system
arthr
joint
arthropods have lots of joints
asthen
weak
anesthetics weaken your sense
atel
incomplete
an atol is an incomplete island
ather
fat
(f)athers are fat
atri
atrium
audi
to hear
aur
ear
auriculares = earphone in spanish
aut
self
autobiography
bacteri
bacteria
bi
life or two
bil
bile
blast
germ, bud, developing cell
blephar
eyelid
brachi
arm
brachial pulse
bronchi
airway, bronchus
bucc
cheek
listen here bucco (tobacco in the cheek)
burs
pouch or sac
bursar
calc
calcium
carcin
cancer
cardi
heart
carp
wrist
carpal tunnel
cartil
cartilage, gristle
caud
tail
codo is tail in spanish
cec
blind intestine, cecum
cel
hernia, protrusion
cent/e
to puncture (a body cavity) (the arrow hit me in the center)
cent/i
a fraction in the metric system, one hundredth or 100
cephal
head
cerebr
brain, cerebrum
cervic
neck
chol
bile
if you are “cholking” you probably have bile in your mouth
chondr
cartilage
condors are made of cartilage
chrom
color
chron
time
cirrh
yellow-orange
cleid
clavicle
can’t hide your cleid
col
colon
colp
vagina
condyl
knuckle of a joint
knucondyl
cor
pupil
see out of the corner of your eye
corne
cornea
cost
rib
it cost me a rib
crani
cranium/skull
crin
to secrete (the endocrine system is hormones secreted into blood vessels)
cubitus
elbow
cutane
skin
cyan
blue
cycl
circle or cycle
cyst
bladder
the cistern of the body
cyt
cell
cytoplast is in the cell
derm(at)
skin
digit
finger or toe
dipl
two, double
dips
thirst
dipsy from the mediations
disk
flat shape, intervertebral disk
dist
distant, away
distal
diverticul
diverticulum, a small blind patch
dors
back
duct
lead, move
abduction/adduction
duoden
duodenum (first part of the small intestine)
ech
to bounce, sound
echo
ede
swelling
education swells the brain
elast
change shape (elastic)
electr
electricity
embol
a plug
embry
embryo
emesis
vomit
emmetr
according to measure
according to emmet the measurer
enchephal
brain
enter
small intestine
episi
vulva
erythr
red
esthesi
sensation or perception
febr
fever
flex
bend
foramen
opening
foramen magnum
fract
break
gastr
stomach
gest
carry, produce, congestion
glyc
sugar, sweet
gno
know
gyn
woman, female
hem(at)
blood
hepat
liver
heter
other, different
hom
the same
hydr
water
idi
person, self
lact
milk
leuk
white
leukemia is about white blood cells
lingu
tongue
mal
abnormal, bad
medi
middle
melan
black, dark
melanin makes your skin dark
men
month, menstruation
mening
membrane, usually the meninges
myel
marrow or spinal cord
my
muscle
nephr
kidney
neur
nerve
ocul
eye
ophthalm
eye
oste
bone
ot
ear
ov
egg
palpate
to examine by touch
path
disease
ped
child or foot
percuss
to examine by striking
phag
eat
phagocyte eats something in the cell
pharyng
throat
phot
light
pleur
rib, side
pneum(at)
lungs, air
lungs are like a pneumatic pump
pneumo(n)
lung
pod(i)
foot
pseud
false
psch
mind
pto
fall
ptyal
saliva
s)ptyal (like spity yall
pulmon
lungs
pur, py
pus
pyr
fire, heat
pyro
quadr/quar
four
ren
kidney
rhin
nose
sanui(n)o
blood
scier
hard
sebum
a fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands
sect
cut
disect is to cut up
sept
wall, divider; also seven
sept is the divider in the nose
serum
the clear portion of body fluids, including blood
sinus
cavity, channel or hollow space
som(a)
body
spir
coil, to breathe
stern
sternum
spir
coil, to breath
stomat
mouth
in plant cells it might be the mouth?
thorac
chest
tom
cut
toxic
poisonous
trich
hair
ur
urine
uter
uterus, womb
varic
dilated vein
vas
blood vessel
viscer
internal organs
xen
foreign (material)
xer
dry