hi this is Dr A with your medical terminology video on the urinary system we're going to look at the word parts of the urinary system all right we're going to start with the combining forms azoto means nitrogenous waste which you'll see in azotemia, bacterio means bacteria, cysto means urinary bladder, glomerulo means glomerulus glycoso means glucose or sugar both hemo and hemato mean blood Hydro means water iatro means physician, medicine, or treatments, which is usually used in the word iatrogenic which means that it's something that was induced by a physician or medicinal treatment idio is distinctive ketono is ketones, litho is stone, meato is meatus nephro is kidney, nocti, and note this is one of the ones that have an i instead of an o nocti is night, oligo is scanty, peritoneo is peritoneum, pyelo is renal pelvis and pyo is pus reno is kidney, toxo is poison, uretero is ureter and urethro is urethra urino and uro is urine and veno is vein so let's look at some suffixes algia is pain cele is protrusion, ectasis is dilated, ectomy is surgical removal, emia is a blood condition genic is producing; gram is record and graphy is the process of recording lith is a stone and lithiasis is a condition of stones, logy is the study of, lysis is to destroy, malacia is an abnormal softening, megaly is enlarged, meter is an instrument to measure and oma is tumor ostomy is to surgically create an opening, and otomy is cutting into, pathy is disease, and pexy is surgical fixation whereas plasty is surgical repair, ptosis is drooping, rrhagia is an abnormal flow condition and sclerosis is hardening scope is an instrument to visually examine and scopy is the process of visually examining, stenosis is narrowing and tripsy is surgical crushing with uria being a urine condition so now let's look at some prefixes, an is without, and anti is against dys is painful or difficult, extra is outside of, and intra is within, poly is many, and retro is backward, and a few adjective forms for the anatomical terms, so cystic means pertaining to the bladder, glomerular pertaining to a glomerulus, meatal to the the meatus; pyelitic to the renal pelvis renal is to the kidney ureteral is to your ureter urethral is to the urethra; urinary is pertaining to urine, and that's it. I thought there was one more slide! that's it for your word parts and words of the urinary system!