The Cardiovascular System

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Chapter 9

• The Cardiovascular System

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Prefixes

• brady- slow
• endo- within, inner
• hyper- above, beyond, excessive
• hypo- below, under, deficient
• tachy- fast

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Roots Combining Forms

• angin- to choke, quinsy
• angio- vessel
• aorto- aorta
• arter-, arteri-, arterio- artery
• ather-, athero- fatty substance, porridge
• card-, cardi-, cardio- heart
• cyan- dark blue
• electro- electricity
• embol- a throwing in
• isch- to hold back
• lun- moon
• mano- thin

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Roots Combining Forms (cont)

• mitr- mitral valve
• phleb- vein
• pulmonar- lung
• rrhythm- rhythm
• scler- hardening
• sphygmo- pulse
• sten- narrowing
• stetho- chest
• tens- pressure
• thromb- clot
• veni-, veno- pain

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Suffixes

• -dynia pain
• -emia blood condition
• -gram mark, record
• -graphy recording
• -ia, -ism, -osis, -y condition
• -ion process
• -ist one who specializes, agent
• -itis inflammation
• -malacia softening
• -megaly enlargement, large
• -meter measuring instrument, measure
• -scope instrument
• -tripsy crushing

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Chapter 10

• Blood and Lymphatic System

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Prefixes

• an- lack of, without
• auto- self
• mono- one
• pan- all
• poly- many, much, excessive

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Roots Combining Forms

• angio- vessel
• cyt-, cyth- cell
• eosino- rose-colored
• granulo- little grain, granular
• hemat-, hemato-, hemo- blood
• leuk-, leuko- white
• lymph-, lympho- lymph
• macro- large

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Roots Combining Forms (cont)

• neutro- neither
• nucle- kernel, nucleus
• phago- to eat, engulf
• splen-, spleno- spleen
• thromb-, thrombo- clot
• thym-, thymo- thymus
• tonsill- almond, tonsil

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Suffixes

• -blast immature cell, germ cell
• -cele hernia, tumor, swelling
• -crit to separate
• -cyte cell
• -ectomy excision
• -emia blood condition
• -genic formation, produce
• -globin protein
• -gnosis knowledge
• -logy study of

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Suffixes (cont)

• -lysis destruction
• -oma tumor
• -penia lack of, deficiency
• -pexy fixation
• -pheresis removal
• -philia attraction
• -phobia fear
• -poiesis formation
• -rrhage to burst forth, bursting forth
• -stasis control, stopping

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Chapter 11

• The Respiratory System

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Prefixes

• a- without, lacking of
• dys- difficult, painful
• eu- good, normal
• hyp- above, beyond, excessive
• tachy- fast

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Roots Combining Forms

• anthrac- coal
• atel- imperfect
• bronchi-, broncho- bronchi
• coni- dust
• cyan- dark blue
• laryng-, larynge-, laryngo- larynx
• ment- chin
• myc- fungus
• naso-, rhin-, rhino- nose

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Roots Combining Forms (cont)

• ortho- striaght
• ox- oxygen
• pharyng- pharynx
• pneumo- lung, air
• pneumon-, pulmo-, pulmon- lung
• pyo- pus
• sinus- a curve, hollow
• trache-, tracheo- trachea

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Suffixes

• -al pertaining to
• -algia pain
• -ectasis dilation, distention
• -ia, -osis condition
• -itis inflammation
• -meter mesuring instrument, measure
• -plasty surgical repair
• -pnea breathing

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Suffixes (cont)

• -ptysis to spit
• -rrhagia to burst forth, bursting forth
• -rrhea flow discharge
• -scope instrument
• -stomy new opening
• -tomy incision
• -us pertaining to