Prefixes/Suffixes/Roots
Wood Roots
Terminology
Anatomy
Disorders
100
prefix meaning many or much
What is poly-?
100
bladder
What is cyst/o?
100
water and soluble substances excreted by kidneys
What is urine?
100
produces urine and regulates body fluid
What is kidney?
100
painful and difficult urination
What is Dysuria?
200
suffix meaning condition or state
What is -iasis?
200
stone
What is lith/o?
200
passing of urine
What is urinate?
200
transports urine from kidney to bladder
What is ureter?
200
loss of urinary control
What is Incontinence?
300
a suffix meaning stone?
What is -lith?
300
urine
What is ur/o, urin/o
300
protective outer covering of the kidney
What is renal fascia?
300
stores urine
What is bladder?
300
inability to empty the bladder
What is retention?
400
pus
What is py/o?
400
pelvis
What is pyel/o?
400
two tubes that transfer urine from the kidneys to the bladder
What is ureters?
400
transports urine to the outside of the body
What is urethra?
400
infection of the lower urinary tract, commonly called bladder infection.
What is cystitis?
500
glomerulus
What is glomerul/o?
500
kidney
What is nephr/o, ren/o
500
circular muscle that surrounds a tube like the urethra and constricts the tube when it contracts
What is sphincters?
500
inside the kidney, where urine production process begins
What is nephron?
500
kidneys cease all urine production
What is renal failure?
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