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Female Reproductive System
Medical word elements and suffixes
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Biology
Graduate
06/12/2013
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Term
Cervic/o
 Definition
Neck or cervix (base of the uterus)
Term
Colp/o or Vagin/o
 Definition
Vagina
Term
Galact/o or Lact/o
 Definition
Milk
Term
Hyster/o, Metri/o (think "M" = "Menopause"), Uter/o
 Definition
Uterus
Term
Mamm/o or Mast/o
 Definition
Breast
Term
Men/o
 Definition
Menses, menstruation
Term
Nat/o
 Definition
birth
Term
Oophor/o or Ovari/o
 Definition
Ovary
Term
Salping/o
 Definition
tube (usually refers to the fallopian tube but can also mean the eustachian tube(ear))
Term
-arche
 Definition
beginning
Term
-cyesis
 Definition
pregnancy
Term
-gravida
 Definition
pregnant woman
Term
-para
 Definition
to bear offspring
Term
-salpinx
 Definition
tube (fallopian or eustachian)
Term
-tocia
 Definition
childbirth or labor
Term
-version
 Definition
tipping or turning
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