Body Systems
Suffixes
Combining Forms
Abbreviations
Glands
100
Aort/o, Coron/o, Venul/o, Pleb/o
What is the Cardiovascular System?
100
Inflammation
What is -itis?
100
Cartilage
What is chondr/o?
100
C1-C7
What is Cervical Vertabrae 1-7
100
Secretes insulin and glucagon
What is the pancreas?
200
Colp/o, Oophor/o, Salping/o, Metri/o
What is the Female Reproductive System
200
-logy
What is the process of study?
200
Nose
What is rhin/o?
200
COPD
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease?
200
Secretes epinepherine and cortisone/ adrenalin
What is the adrenal gland?
300
An/o, Or/o, Stomat/o, Jejun/o
What is the Digestive System
300
disease
What is -pathy?
300
Stone
What is lith/o?
300
NPO
What is Nothing By Mouth?
300
Secretes TSH
What is the thyroid gland?
400
Uln/o, Metacarp/o, Cost/o, Patell/o
What is the Musculoskeletal System?
400
abnormal growth
What is -plasia
400
Renal Pelvis
What is pyel/o?
400
PSA
What is Prostate Specific Antigen?
400
Secretes growth hormone
What is the pituitary gland?
500
Myel/o, Neur/o, Cerebell/o, Medull/o
What is the Nervous System?
500
seperation; breakdown
What is -lysis?
500
Hair
What is trich/o?
500
SOB
What is Shortness of Breath?
500
Secretes thymosin and and helps produce WBC's
What is the thymus gland?
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