Body Structures, Colors, & Oncology

Unit 2

Do you Know your Colors?

chrom/o color(s)

Do you Know your

Colors?

chlor/o

cyan/o

erythr/o

leuk/opoli/o

melan/o

xanth/o

Body Structures & Systems

Word Parts: Combining Forms

aden/o = gland

cyt/o = cells

epitheli/o = epithelium

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

Word Parts: Combining Forms

-oma, onc/o = tumor,

mass

rhabd/o = rod-shaped,

striated

lei/o = smooth

Word Parts: Prefixes

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

leuk/o

cyt/o

-osis

leukocytosis

an increase in white (blood)

cells

Complementary Terms

• identification of a disease or conditiondiagnosis

• not malignant (not cancerous)• non-recurrent, favorable for recoverybenign

• tending to become progressively worse• can cause death, such as cancermalignant

• enclosed in a capsule• as with benign tumorsencapsulated

Complementary Terms

• Improvement or absence of signs of diseaseremission

• cancer in early stage• before invading surrounding tissue

carcinoma in situ

• treatment for cancer with drugschemotherapy

• treatment of cancer with radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiationradiation therapy