Medterm unit 5
Acust/o
Hearing
amygdale
almond, tonsil, amygdala
incud/o
anvil
axon
axle
extramission/intromission
beams out/ beams in
soma
body
plexus, plexus
braided
ramus
branch (motor and sensory)
pons, pontis m.
bridge
fasciculus, -i, fr. fascis
bundle of sticks
camera, ae
chamber, vault, cavity
kyklos
circle, wheel
sensus communis
common senses
-plegia
complete paralysis
gnosis
comprehension or knowing of sensations
dysphrasia, dyslalia, dysphasia, dslogia
condition of difficult speech
clonus
confusion, turmoil (back and forth spasm)
spasmos
convulsion wrenching; involuntary contraction
choreia
dancing movement
scotos, skotos
darness
delusion
deception, false idea
melancholic
depressed, black bile
delirium
deviant behavior
fossa, -ae
ditch
sulcus, -i
ditch or furrow
praxis
doing an act
tympanum, -i
drum
aur/o
ear
auris, -is
ear
ot/o
ear
myringa, myring/o
eardrum
cerumen, ceruminis
earwax
limbus
edge, border
encephalon (encephal/o)
entire brain
auricle
external ear
auricula
external ear
pinna
external ear, wing, fin, feather
oculus, -i ophthalm/o, ocul/o
eye
cilium, -i cili/o, ciliar/o
eyelash
palpebra, -ae palbebr/o blephar/o
eyelid
fantasi
fantasy from sensations
fissura, -ae
fissure, cleft, groove
proso-, prostho-
forward, prosthetic
vitr/o, vitrea, hyal/o
glass-like
glia
glue
substantia grisea
gray matter of the brain
polios
grey
labe
handle
sclera, -ae
hard, sclera
-acousia
hearing
-acusis
hearing
Acoust/o
hearing
Audi/o
hearing
audit/o
hearing
auditus
hearing
cornea, -ae
horn
cornu
horn
keratos
horn, cornea
imaginativa
image from fantasy
thalamus, -i
inner room, chamber
noos, nous (noe-)
intellect, mind
choleric
irritable, easily angered
nucleus, -i
kernel, little nut
lens, lentis, phak/o, phac/o
lentil, lens
phos, photos lumen, luminis
light
salpinx, salping/o
long tube
sanguine
lots of blood, excessively happy
mania
madness, frenzy; excessive fascination
malle/o
mallet, hammer
gnomon
means of knowing, how to know
meninx, meningis, f.
membrane
memorativa
memory
mneme
memory
phren
midriff, diaphragm, mind
mens, mentis
mind
miotic vs mydriatic
mio- less fewer, small pupil mydria- full pupil
mater, matris
mother
neura
neuron
nyct/o, noct/o
night
nux, nucis
nut
taxis
order, arrangement, coordination
panic disorder
pan, misshapen god (goat legs) causes people to panic and have anxiet
palsy
paralysis
meatus, -us
passage, pathway
tractus
pathway, dragging
hedone
pleasure
lobus, -i
pod/lobe
stigma, stigmata
point
pupilla, -ae pupill/o, core/o, coria
pupil
iris, iridis
rainbow
retina, -ae
retina, web/net
cortex, corticis, m.
rind, bark
gyrus, -i
ring, circle
rhiza
root
radix
root (motor or sensory)
funiculus, fr. funis,
rope
hippocampus
sea horse
lepsis
seizure
esthesi/o, esthet/o
sensation
hallucination
sensory illusion
philia
sexual attraction, arousal
-paresis
slight paralysis
olfactus
smell/scent
psyche
soul, mind
thymos
soul, seat of emotion
Acousm/o
sound
Acousmat/o
sound
son/o
sound
phrasis
speech, phrase
arachn/o
spider
macul/o
spot
staped/o
stirrup
sthen/o
strength
pathos
suffering/affection; disease, emotion
gustus
taste
lacrima, -ae lacrimalis, -e
tear
dacry/o
tears, tear duct
tonos
tension, stretching, tone
fugere (-fugal)
to flee (efferent)
kine-
to move
movere, motum,
to move
petere (-petal)
to seek (afferent)
lalein
to talk, to speak
tactus
touch
dendron
tree, branched structure
ganglion
tumor or swelling
trop/o
turn or turning
phlegmatic
very sickly
-opia, -opsia, -opsis
vision
opt/o, optic/o
vision
visus
vision
cera, -ae, cer/o
wax
substantia alba
white matter (substance)
fenestr/o
window opening
lexis
word, reading
logos
word, speech
