Nervous system And

sense organs

Neur/o,i Nervous System,Nervous tissue

Neuroallergy

Neurology

Neuroarthropathy

Allergy in nervous system

The branch of medical science concerned with the various nervous systems

Any disease of joint structures associated with disease of the nervous system.

Neurosurgery

Neuroblast

Angioneuropathy

Angioneurotomy

Dermatoneurosis

Surgery of the nervous system

An immature nerve cell

A vascular disorder attributed to an abnormality of the autonomic nervous system fibers supplying the blood vessels

Incision of both nerves and vessels of a part

Any cutaneous eruption due to emotional stimuli

Neurocardiac

Neurocranium

Neurodermatitis

Neuralgia

Neuroplasty

Relating to the cardiac neurosis

Those bones of the cranium enclosing the brain as distinguished from the bones of the face

A chronic lichenified skin lesion localized or disseminated

The pain of nervous tissue

Surgery of the nerves usually signifying more than neurorrhaphy

Gli/o Neuroglia

Glial

Angiogliomatosis

Glioma

Gliomatosis

Pertaining to neuroglia

Occurrence of multiple areas of proliferating capillaries and neuroglia or a condition of multiple angiogliomas

A tumor composed of tissue which represent neuroglia in any one of its stages of development

Diffuse formation of gliomas

Gangli/o , Ganglion/o

Ganglion

Ganglia

Ganglioma

Ganglionitis

Polyganglionic

Gangliectomy

Plural of ganglion

Tumor of a ganglion

Inflammation of a gnaglion

Containing or involving many ganglia

Surgical removal of ganglion

Mening/omeninge/o

meninges

Meningocele

Meningo-osteophlebitis

Meningocephalopathy

Meningorrhagia

Hernia of the meninges

Inflammation of the veins of the periosteum

Disorder affecting the meninges and the brain

Hemorrhage into or beneath the cerebral or spinal meninges

Myel/o Spinal cord (also bone marrow)

Hematomyelia

Encephalomyeloneuropathy

Myelalgia

Myeloblastemia

Myelorrhaphy

Hemorrhage into the spinal cord

A disease involving the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves

Pain in the spinal cord

The presence of myeloblasts in the circulating blood

Suture of a wound of the spinal cord

Radicul/o Spinal nerve root

Radiculopathy

Myeloradiculodysplasia

Radliculoganglionitis

Any disease of spinal nerve root

Congenital maldevelopment of the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots

Inflammation of roots and ganglion

RoOts for the Brain

Encephal/o Brain

Anencephaly

Electroencephalogram

Electeroencephalograph

Electreencephalography

Encephalodynia

Absence of the brain

The record obtained by means of electreencephalograph

An instrument for performing electroencephalography

The recording of the electric currents developed in the brain

Headache

Encephaloscopy

Encephalotomy

Polioencephalomyelitis

Porencephaly

Megaloencephaly

Examination of the brain

Dissection or incision of the brain

Inflammation of the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord

The presence of one or more cavities in the brain

Enlargement of the brain

Cerebr/o Cerebrum

cerebrology

Infracerebral

Cerebrospinal

Cerebrotomy

Cerebrosis

The sum of knowledge regarding the brain

Below the cerebrum

Related to the brain and spinal cord

Incision of the brain

Any disease of the cerebrum

Cortic/o Cerebral cortex,outer portion

Corticospinal

Corticomedial

Corticothalamic

Corticopleuritis

Pertaining to the cerebral cortex and spinal cord

Cortical and medial

Pertaining to cortex and thalamus

Inflammation of the visceral pulmonary pleura

Cerebell/o Cerebellum

Supracerebellar

Cerebellomedullary

Cerebellopontine

Cerebellorubral

Above the cerebellum

Relating to the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata

Relating to the cerebellum and pons

Relating to the connections of the cerebellum with the red nucleus

Thalam/o Thalamus

Thalamotomy

Thalamocortical

Incision of the thalamus

Relating to the efferent connections of the thalamus with the cerebral cortex

Ventricul/o Cavity,ventricle

Intraventricular

Ventriculoscope

Ventriculopuncture

Within a ventricle

An endoscope for examining the cerebral ventricles and for cauterizing the choroid plexus

Insertion of a needle into a ventricle

Medull/o Medulla oblongata (also spinal cord)

Medullary Pertaining to the medulla

Psych/o Mind

Psychogenic

Medicopsychology

Psychogenesis

Psychiatric

Psychosomatic

Originiating in the mind

Psychology in its relation to medicine

Production of a symptom or illness by psychic

Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry

Pertaining to mind-body relationship

Narc/o Stupor,unconsciousness

Narcosis

Electronarcosis

State of stupor it used by drugs

Production of insensibility to pain by the use of electral current

Somn/o,i Sleep

Somnolense

Insomnia

Hypersomnia

Somnifacient

Dyssomnia

Sleepyness

Inability to sleep

A condition in which sleep periods are excessively long

Causing sleep

Disturbance of normal sleep or rhythm pattern

Suffixes for the nervous system

Suffix Meaning Example Definition of the example

-phasia Speech heterophasiaUtering words that are

different from those intended

-lalia Speech,babble Coprolalia Compulsive use of obscene words

-lexia Reading Bradylexia Slowness in reading

-plegia Paralysis Tetraplegia Paralysis of all four limbs

-paresis Partial paralysis,weakness Hemiparesis Partial paralysis of one

side of the body

-lepsy Seizure Narcolepsy Condition marked by sudden episodes of sleep

-phobia Persistant,irrational fear Agoraphobia Fear of being in a

public place

Derm/oDermat/o

Skin

Dermabrasion

Dermatopathy

Dermophlebitis

Dermovascular

Dermoidectomy

Surgical procedure used to resurface the skin and remove imperfections

Any disease of the skin

Inflammation of the superficial veins and the surroundings skin

Pertaining to the blood vessels of the skin

Surgical removal of a dermoid cyst

Trich/o Hair

Glossotrichia

Trichomycosis

Melanotrichous

Trichodynia

Hypotrichosis

Hairy tongue

Fungal infection of the hair

Having black hair

Pain in the root of hair

A less than normal amount of hair on the head and/or body

Kerat/o Keratin,horny layer of the skin

Keratinous

Dyskeratosis

Keratoderma

Containing keratin;horny

A disorder of keratinization

A generalized thickening of the horny layer of the epidermis

Melan/o Dark,Black,Melanin

Melanosome

Pneumomelanosis

Melanoglossia

Melanogenesis

Melanoblast

Small cellular body that produces melanin

Blackening of the lung tissue

Black tongue

Formation of melanin

A cell derived from the neural crest

Hidr/o Sweat,Perspiration

Anhidrosis

Chromhidrosis

Hidrosis

Absence of sweating

A rare condition charactrized by the excretion of sweat containing pigment

The production and excretion of sweat

Seb/o Sebum,Sebaceous gland

Seborrhea Excess flow of sebum

Onych/o Nail

Onychia

Onychoclasis

Onychograph

Onychoid

Onychology

Inflammation of the nail and nail bed

Breaking of the nails

An instrument for recording the capillary blood pressure as shown by the circulation under the nail

Resembling a finger nail in structure or form

Study of the nails