Combining Forms
Combining form meaning death.
What is mort/o?
Suffix meaning birth or labor.
What is -partum?
Prefix meaning slow.
What is brady-?
Low blood sugar.
What is hypoglycemia?
Foreign substance or invader that stimulates the production of antibodies.
What is an antigen?
Combining form meaning sleep.
What is somn/o?
Suffix meaning coming together or to pour.
What is -fusion?
Prefix meaning good or normal.
Into or within a vein.
What is intravenous?
Yellow pigment to the skin.
What is jaundice?
Combining form meaning to lead or carry.
What is duct/o?
Suffix meaning to measure.
What is -meter?
Prefix meaning bad, painful, difficult or abnormal.
What is dys-?
Shortness of breath.
What is dyspnea?
Method for producing multiple copies of a single gene.
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
Combining word that means place, position, or location.
What is top/o?
Suffix meaning breathing.
What is -pnea?
Prefix meaning all.
What is pan-?
Passing through the skin.
What is percutaneous?
Objective finding that is perceived by an examiner (example: fever, rash, abnormal labs).
What is sign?
What is nat/i?
Suffix meaning development, formation or growth.
What is -plasia?
Prefix meaning against or opposite.
What is contra-?
Deficiency of all three cellular components of the blood (RBC, WBC, platelets).
What is pancytopenia?
Occurs when two organisms live together in close association, either for mutual benefit or not.
What is symbiosis?