CHAPTER 9 | Word Parts | THE URINARY SYSTEM

-analysis

a study of the parts

-osis

abnormal condition or disease

albumin/o

albumin

-esis

an abnormal condition

bacteri/o

bacteria

-rrhagia

bleeding

-emia

blood condition

lyso

break apart, dissolve

-lysis

breakdown, separation, setting free, destruction, loosening

-ism

condition of

home/o

constant

-stasis

control

-genic

created by

cyst

cyst

-ptosis

droop or sag

olig/o

few in number, scanty

-rrhea

flow or discharge

blast/o

germ, bud, developing cell

gluc/o

glucose, sugar, sweet

glyc/o, glycos/o

glycogen, glucose, sugar, sweet

-cele

hernia, tumor, swelling

diur/o

increasing the output of urine

-itis

inflammation

ket/o, keton/o

ketone bodies

nephr/o

kidney

ren/o

kidney or kidneys

glomerul/o

little ball, glomerulus

poly-

many

-ostomy

means creating an opening

en-

means into

-lithiasis

means the presence of stones

-uresis

means urination

sten/o

narrowness, constriction

neur/o

nerve

noct/o

night

meat/o

opening, passage

-algia

pain

dys-

painful

-al, -tic

pertaining to

tens/o

pressure

prostat

prostate gland

py/o

pus

pyel/o

renal pelvis, bowl of kidney

spadia/o

rip, tear

cyst/o

sac, bladder

vesic/o

sac, bladder

son/o

sound

-ologist

specialist

glyc/o

starch

-lith

stone

lith/o

stone

-ectasis

stretching, dilation, enlargement

-pexy

surgical fixation

dia-

through, between, apart, enlargement

-stenosis

tightening or narrowing

-tripsy

to crush

tom/o

to cut

azot/o

urea, nitrogen

ureter/o

ureter (kidney to bladder)

urethr/o

urethra (bladder to opening), or exist

-uria

urination, urine

ur

urine

ur/o, urin/o

urine

ur/o

urine, urinary tract

vagin/o

vagina

hydr/o

water

an-

without