Words gone over today:

Nervus; sinew, nerve (innervation, nerve)

Norma; a measure, standard or pattern, regular or normal (abnormal, subnormal)

Oculus; eye, bud (ocular, intraocular, supraocular)

Os, Oris; mouth, opening (oral, oscitation)

Os, Ossis; bone (Osteopathy, osteon, interocessous, osteopenia)

Palma; palm of the hand (palmar, palm)

Palpalare, palpatum; to stroke, touch (palpate, impalpable, palpable)

Paries, parietis; wall (of organ or cavity) (parietal lobe, occipitoparietal, subparietal)

Patella; a small pan; kneepan (infrapatellar, patellar tendonitis, prepatellar)

Pellis; skin (pellicle – a thin skin/membrane)

Pectus, pectoris; breast, chest (pectoral major, mediopectoral, pectoral minor)

Pelvis; basin, basin-shaped cavity (pelvic, pelvis, intrapelvis)

Pes, pedis; foot (pedicure, biped, pedicle, breviped)

Pilus; hair (erector pili)

Pituita; phlegm, mucus (pituitary gland – of endocrine system)

Planta; a sprout, or sole of foot (plantar fasciitis, calcaneoplantar)

Pollex, pollicis; thumb (pollex valgus – bunion-like deformity of the thumb, particularly to the ulnar aspect of the metacarpophalangeal joint, prepollex)

Pons, pontis; bridge, a slip of tissue connecting two parts of an organ (pons cerebilli, postpontile)

Pronus; inclined, bending forward (pronation – opposite of supination)

Pulmo, pulmonis; lung (pulmonary, intrapulmonary, subpulmonary)

Pustula; blister, pimple (pustulation, pustule)