Chapter 12 Combining Forms

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  1. Alveol/o
    air sac, alveolus
  2. atel/o
    incomplete
  3. bronch/o, bronch/i
    airway, bronchus
  4. coni/o
    dust
  5. cyst/o
    sac, bladder
  6. fibr/o
    fiber
  7. glott/o
    opening into the windpipe
  8. hem/o, hemat/o
    blood
  9. laryng/o
    voice box, larynx
  10. lob/o
    a rounded part, lobe
  11. muc/o
    mucus
  12. nas/o
    nose
  13. orth/o
    straight
  14. ox/i
    oxygen
  15. pharyng/o
    throat, pharynx
  16. phragm/o, phragmat/o
    partition
  17. pleur/o
    pleura
  18. pneum/o, pneumat/o, pneumon/o
    air, lung
  19. pulmon/o
    lung
  20. py/o
    pus
  21. rhin/o
    nose
  22. sept/o
    wall, partition
  23. sinus/o
    cavity
  24. somn/o
    sleep
  25. spir/o
    to breathe
  26. sphyx/o
    pulse
  27. sten/o
    narrowness
  28. thorac/o
    chest, thorax
  29. tonsill/o
    almond, tonsil
  30. trache/o
    windpipe, trachea
  31. tubercul/o
    little mass or swelling

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 Chapter 12 Combining Forms
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2014-10-20 18:50:19
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medical terminology
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the respiratory system
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