1. Body Structures, Colors, & Oncology
Unit 2

2. Do you Know your Colors?
chrom/o
color(s)

3. Do you Know your Colors? chlor/o cyan/o leuk/o xanth/o erythr/o poli/o
melan/o
xanth/o

4. Body Structures & Systems

5. 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

6. Word Parts: Combining Forms
hist/o = tissue
lip/o = fat
my/o= muscle

7. Word Parts: Combining Forms
viscer/o = internal organs
system/o = system
neur/o = nerve
-pathy, path/o = disease

8. 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

9. Word Parts: Combining Forms
-oma, onc/o = tumor, mass
rhabd/o = rod-shaped, striated
lei/o = smooth

10. Word Parts: Prefixes dia- = through dys- = difficult, painful, bad
hypo- = below, deficient
hyper- = excessive, above
dys- = difficult, painful, bad
dia- = through

11. Word Parts: Prefixes
neo- = new
meta- = beyond

12. Word Parts: Suffixes Review
-al, -ic, -ous
pertaining to
-osis
abnormal condition
also means increase when used with blood

13. Word Parts: Add’l Suffixes
-gen
substance that causes or produces
-genic
producing, causing
-sarcoma, sarcoma
malignant tumor (cancerous tumor)

14. Word Parts: Add’l Suffixes
-plasia
development or formation
-plasm
material (substance) that develops or forms cells or tissue

15. Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts
aden/o
carcin/o
-oma
adenocarcinoma
Cancerous tumor of the glands
Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts

16. Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts
leuk/o
cyt/o
-osis
leukocytosis
an increase in white (blood) cells
Medical Terms: Built from Word Parts

17. 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

18. 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