Body Structures, Colors, & Oncology Unit 2
Do you Know your Colors? chrom/o color(s)
Do you Know your Colors? chlor/o cyan/o leuk/o xanth/o erythr/o poli/o melan/o xanth/o
Body Structures & Systems
Word Parts: Combining Forms aden/o = gland cyt/o = cells epitheli/o = epithelium Epithelial tissue – covers body surfaces and lines body cavities; protects and controls secretion and excretion (ie – skin) Glands – an organ that produces secretion such as hormones, breast milk, or sweat (ie – thyroid, sweat, salivary glands) Cell – basic unit of all living things
Word Parts: Combining Forms hist/o = tissue lip/o = fat my/o= muscle
Word Parts: Combining Forms viscer/o = internal organs system/o = system neur/o = nerve -pathy, path/o = disease
Word Parts: Combining Forms cancer/o or carcin/o = cancer eti/o = cause (of disease) sarc/o = flesh, connective tissue Cancer/o and carcin/o – Sarc/o = flesh, connective tissue i.e. - skin (epithelial tissue), blood, bone, fat (lip/o), cartilage
Word Parts: Combining Forms -oma, onc/o = tumor, mass rhabd/o = rod-shaped, striated lei/o = smooth
Word Parts: Prefixes dia- = through dys- = difficult, painful, bad hypo- = below, deficient hyper- = excessive, above dys- = difficult, painful, bad dia- = through
Word Parts: Prefixes neo- = new meta- = beyond
Word Parts: Suffixes Review -al, -ic, -ous pertaining to -osis abnormal condition also means increase when used with blood
Word Parts: Add’l Suffixes -gen substance that causes or produces -genic producing, causing -sarcoma, sarcoma malignant tumor (cancerous tumor)
Word Parts: Add’l Suffixes -plasia development or formation -plasm material (substance) that develops or forms cells or tissue
Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts aden/o carcin/o -oma adenocarcinoma Cancerous tumor of the glands Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts
Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts leuk/o cyt/o -osis leukocytosis an increase in white (blood) cells Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts
Complementary Terms diagnosis benign malignant encapsulated identification of a disease or condition diagnosis not malignant (not cancerous) non-recurrent, favorable for recovery benign tending to become progressively worse can cause death, such as cancer malignant enclosed in a capsule as with benign tumors encapsulated
Complementary Terms remission carcinoma in situ chemotherapy Improvement or absence of signs of disease remission cancer in early stage before invading surrounding tissue carcinoma in situ treatment for cancer with drugs chemotherapy treatment of cancer with radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiation radiation therapy