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