Medical Terminology Chapter 7 combining forms/suffixes
-phonia
voice
sept/o
wall
aer/o
air
alveol/o
alveolus; air sac
-emia
blood condition
-pnea
breathing
spir/o
breathing
bronchiol/o
bronchiole
bronch/o
bronchus
bronchi/o
bronchus
-capnia
carbon dioxide
-thorax
chest
anthrac/o
coal
tuss/o
cough
cyst/o
cyst, bladder
diaphragmat/o
diaphragm
-ectasis
dilation
coni/o
dust
epiglott/o
epiglottis
-plasm
formation
atel/o
incomplete
-spasm
involuntary muscle contraction
laryng/o
larynx
lob/o
lobe
pulmon/o
lung
pneum/o
lung, air
pneumon/o
lung, air
muc/o
mucus
nas/o
nose
rhin/o
nose
cortic/o
outer region, cortex
ox/o, ox/i
oxygen
-algia
pain
-dynia
pain
-plegia
paralysis
pharyngo/o
pharynx
pleur/o
pleura
embol/o
plug
-genic
produced by
-centesis
puncture to withdraw fluid
py/o
pus
sinus/o
sinus, cavity
somn/o
sleep
-osmia
smell
-ptysis
spitting
-ism
state of
orth/o
straight, upright
hist/o
tissue
trache/o
trachea, windpipe
