Aden/o : gland

Adren/o : adrenal gland

Angi/o : vessel

Arteri/o : artery

question: what’s the difference between a vein and an artery?

Arteriol/o

Arthr/o : joint

Atri/o : upper chambers of the heart

Balan/o : glans penis or glans clitoridis

Bronch/o, bronch/i

Bronchiol/o

Cardi/o

What muscle is working hard when you do a cardio workout?

Cerebell/o : “little brain” controls movement

Cerebr/o, cerebr/i

Controls thought, imagination, judgment, decisions

Choledoch/o : common bile duct

Chondr/I, chondr/io, chondr/ocartilage

Chord/ocord, string

Cleid/oclavicle

Colp/ovagina

Cost/orib

Cyst/I, cyst/obladder, cyst, sac

Cyt/o cell

Duoden/oduodenum (first part of the small

intestine)

Encephal/obrain

Enter/ointestine

Episi/ovulva

Fibr/ofibers

Gastr/ostomach

Gli/ogluey substance

Hepatic/o, hepat/oliver

Hist/otissue

Hyster/outerus

Ile/oileum: final section of small

intestine

Ili/oileum, upper part of hip bone

Jejun/ojejunum, middle section of small

intestine

Kerat/ohorney tissue and cornea

Laryng/olarynx (voice box)

Lymph/olymphatic vessels, lymphocyte

Mening/omembranes covering the brain

and spinal cord

Metr/a, metr/outerus

Myel/obone marrow or spinal cord

My/omuscle

Myring/oeardrum

Nephr/okidney

Neur/onerve, nerves, nervous system

Oophor/oovaries

Orchi/o, orchid/otestis, testes

Oss/eo, oss/I, ost/e, ost/eobone or bones

Ovari/oovary

Palat/opalate (roof of mouth)

Pharyng/opharynx

Phleb/ovein or veins

Phren/I, phren/ico, phren/odiaphragm, mind

Pleur/opleura, rib on side

Pneum/a, pneum/o, pneum/ato, pneum/ono

lungs, respiration

Proct/orectum, anus

Pulm/olungs

Pyel/opelvis or kidney

Rect/orectum

Ren/I, ren/okidney

Sacr/osacrum

Salping/ofallopian or eustachian tube

Sarc/oflesh, muscular substance

Splen/ospleen

Spondyl/overtebra, spinal column

Stern/osternum

Tend/o, ten/otendon

Thym/othymus gland

Thyr/othyroid gland

Trache/otrachea

Ureter/oureter

Urethr/ourethra

Vas/ovessel or duct

Ven/e, ven/I, ven/ovein or veins

question, do veins carry oxygenated or unoxygenated

blood?

Viscer/oviscera