Medical Terminology Chapter 9: Nervous System

neuron

• nerve cell
• sound
• spinal cord

ech/o

• sound
• mind
• thing

ment/o

• mind
• myelin sheath; covering of a nerve
• burning

myelin/o

• myelin sheath; covering of a nerve
• stupor; a state of near-unconsciousness
• brain

narc/o

• stupor; a state of near-unconsciousness
• gray matter
• water

poli/o

• gray matter
• nerve cell
• magnet

spin/o

• spinal cord
• sound
• membrane around the brain and spinal cord

-us

• thing
• mind
• spinal cord

caus/o

• burning
• myelin sheath; covering of a nerve
• nerve

cerebr/o

• brain
• stupor; a state of near-unconsciousness
• hernia (protrusion of an organ)