Cardiovascular & Vessels
This combining form comes from the Greek Kardia, meaning heart
What is Cardi-?
Coming from Greek pleura, this combining form means rib or lung.
This combining form comes from Greek erythrose, meaning red.
What is Erythro-?
Coming from Greek arthron, this root refers to a joint.
What is Arthro-?
This prefix comes from Greek and means fast or rapid.
What is Tachy-?
This latin root term means vessel and is sued to study blood vessels.
What is Vas-?
This root comes from Greek bronchos, meaning windpipe or airway.
What is Bronch-/Branch-?
Derived from Greek kytos, this term means cell or receptacle.
What is Cyt-/-Cyte?
This prefix comes from Greek epi, meaning on, above, or upon.
What is Epi-?
Derived from Greek therme, this root means heat
What is Therm-?
This combining form comes from Greek angeion, which means vessel.
What is Angio-?
Derived from Greek pneumonia, this root refers to the lung.
This combining form from Greek haima means blood.
What is Haem-/Hem-?
This root comes from Greek kyanos, meaning dark blue.
WHat is Cyan-?
This latin prefix means against or opposite.
This root refers specifically to the arm and is sued in naming the main artery of the upper arm.
What is Brachii-/Brachi-?
This root originates from Greek this/rhinos, meaning nose.
What is Rhin-?
Derived from Greek histos, this root word means tissue.
What is Hist-?
This root from Latin stringere means to draw tight or narrow an airway/pasageway
What is Strict-?