Chapter 7-The Nervous System Word Elements

Match the following prefixes!

• four

• hemi-

• half

• quadri-

• painful; difficult

• a- or an-

• above; above normal

• dys-

• not; without

• hyper-

Match the following combining forms!

• head

• cerebr/o

• cerebrum

• cephal/o

• meninges

• mening/o

  meningi/o

• brain

• encephal/o

Match the following combining forms!

• mind

• neur/o

• blood vessel

• psych/o

• nerve

• vascul/o

Match the following suffixes!

• pain

• -al

  -ar

• sensation; feeling

• -esthesia

• pertaining to

• -algia

• condition

• -ia

Match the following suffixes!

• specialist in the study & treatment of

• -logy

• inflammation

• -logist

• study of

• -itis