Language of Medicine -Ch 22 -Review Sheet

dys-

bad; painful; difficult; abnormal

Somat/o

body

Cycl/o

ciliary body of the eye; cycle; circle

hypo-

deficient; below; under; less than normal

Phren/o

diaphragm; mind

-pathy

disease; emotion

cata-

down

-phobia

fear

Pyr/o

fever; fire

eu-

good; normal

Hallucin/o

hallucination

Phil/o

like; love; attraction to

agora-

marketplace

Psych/o

mind

-thymia

mind (condition of)

Ment/o

mind; chin

-kinesia

movement

para-

near; beside; abnormal; apart from; along the side of

Neur/o

nerve

a-, an-

no; not; without

-mania

obsessive preoccupation

-leptic

pertaining to seizing, taking hold of

-tropic

pertaining to stimulating

Iatr/o

physician; treatment

-genic

produced by or in

Xen/o

stranger

Ton/o

tension

Schiz/o

split

-oid

resembling; derived from

-form

resembling; in the shape of

Aut/o

self; own

-somnia

sleep

Hypn/o

sleep

-phoria

to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

Klept/o

to steal

Anxi/o

uneasy; anxious