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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY-MORE COMBINING FORMS, PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES-LESSON 32

MORE COMBINING FORMS, PREFIXES, AND SUFFIXES No --- Combining form---Meaning--- Medical term---Meaning 1. abdomin/o means abdomen-abdominal-pertaining to the abdomen 2. adip/o means fat-adipose- full of fat 3. anter/o means front-anterior-pertaining to front 4. bol/o means to cast-anabolism-to cast a process up 5. cervic/o means neck-cervical- body neck, or neck of the uterus 6. chondr/o means cartilage-chondroma-tumor of cartilage 7. chrom/o means color-chromosomes-bodies absorbing color in the body 8. coccyg/o means coccyx coccygeal petaining to tail bone 9. crani/o means skull-craniotomy-process of cutting the skull 10. cyt/o means cell-cytoplasm-formation of a cell 11. dist/o mean