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• What does the combining form 'Kinesi/o' mean?

  Thin, slender

  Tension

  Strength

  Movement
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Lept/o' mean?

  Movement

  Stupor, numbness, sleep

  Nerve root

  Thin, slender
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Lex/o' mean?

  Tension

  Meaning

  Strength

  Word, phrase
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Narc/o' mean?

  Stupor, numbness, sleep

  Thin, slender

  Coordination

  Movement
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Radicul/o' mean?

  Paralysis

  Weakness, debility

  Nerve root

  Feeling
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Sthen/o' mean?

  Strength

  Coordination

  Seizure

  Tension
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Thec/o' mean?

  Weakness, debility

  Pain

  Partial paralysis

  Sheath (usually refers to meninges)
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Ton/o' mean?

  Movement

  Feeling

  Stupor, numbness, sleep

  Tension
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-algesia' mean?

  Weakness, debility

  Feeling

  Movement

  Pain
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-asthenia' mean?

  Weakness, debility

  Pain

  Seizure

  Paralysis
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-esthesia' mean?

  Feeling

  Coordination

  Movement

  Speech
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-kinesia' mean?

  Pain

  Weakness, debility

  Seizure

  Movement
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-lepsy' mean?

  Seizure

  Coordination

  Partial paralysis

  Speech
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-paresis' mean?

  Partial paralysis

  Paralysis

  Feeling

  Weakness, debility
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-phasia' mean?

  Speech

  Weakness, debility

  Movement

  Stupor, numbness, sleep
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-plegia' mean?

  Coordination

  Seizure

  Feeling

  Paralysis
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the suffix '-taxia' mean?

  Movement

  Weakness, debility

  Pain

  Coordination
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the prefix 'Pachy-' mean?

  Union, together, joined

  Near, beside, beyond

  Thick

  One
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the prefix 'Para-' mean?

  Union, together, joined

  Near, beside, beyond

  One

  Thick
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the prefix 'Syn-' mean?

  Near, beside, beyond

  Union, together, joined

  One

  Thick
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the prefix 'Uni-' mean?

  Union, together, joined

  Near, beside, beyond

  Thick

  One
  nervous_system medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Ot/o' mean?

  Tubes (eustachian)

  Thick

  Stapes

  Ear
  special_senses medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Salping/o' mean?

  Tubes (eustachian)

  Ear

  Thin

  Stapes
  special_senses medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Staped/o' mean?

  Thin

  Tubes (eustachian)

  Stapes

  Ear
  special_senses medical_terms
• What does the combining form 'Ambly/o' mean?

  Light

  Dull, dim

  Choroid

  Water
  medical eye
• What does the combining form 'Aque/o' refer to?

  Water

  Gray

  Old age

  Tear, lacrimal apparatus
  medical eye
• What is the meaning of 'Choroid/o'?

  Vision

  Angle

  Choroid

  Hearing
  medical eye
• What does 'Dacry/o' represent?

  Vitreous body of the eye

  Lacrimal sac

  Gray

  Tear, lacrimal apparatus (duct, sac, or gland)
  medical eye
• What does the combining form 'Dacryocyst/o' mean?

  Lacrimal sac

  Light

  Turning

  Old age
  medical eye
• What does 'Glauc/o' signify?

  Water

  Dull, dim

  Vision

  Gray
  medical eye
• What does the combining form 'Goni/o' refer to?

  Excessive, above normal

  Hearing

  Choroid

  Angle
  medical eye
• What does 'Phot/o' mean?

  Light

  Gray

  Dull, dim

  Old age
  medical eye
• What is the meaning of 'Presby/o'?

  Vision

  Old age

  Turning

  Hearing
  medical eye
• What does 'Vitr/o' stand for?

  Angle

  Water

  Vitreous body of the eye

  Choroid
  medical eye
• What does the prefix 'Exo-' mean?

  Vision

  Outside, outward

  Excessive, above normal

  Hearing
  medical eye
• What does the prefix 'Hyper-' signify?

  Dull, dim

  Turning

  Outside, outward

  Excessive, above normal
  medical eye
• What does the suffix '-opia, -opsia' mean?

  Turning

  Light

  Vision

  Hearing
  medical eye
• What does the suffix '-tropia' indicate?

  Turning

  Dull, dim

  Hearing

  Vision
  medical eye
• What does the suffix '-acusia, -cusis' mean?

  Hearing

  Turning

  Vision

  Old age
  medical ear