Suffixes, prefixes, root words

surgical puncture

joint

to break

bone

binding, fixation (of a bone or joint)

excision, removal

appendix

separation; destruction; loosening

blood clot

fixation (of an organ)

breast

surgical repair

nose

suture

muscle

forming an opening (mouth)

trachea (windpipe)

instrument to cut

incision

crushing

stone, calculus

record, writing

electricity

heart

instrument for recording

process of recording

vessel (usually blood or lymph)

instrument for measuring

pelvis

act of measuring

instrument for examining

in, within

visual examination

pain

neuralgia, otodynia

nerve

ear

hernia, swelling

liver

dilation, expansion

bronchus (plural: bronchi)

swelling

lymph

-iasis = abnormal condition (produced by something specific)

• chol/e: bile, gall
• lith: stone, calculus

vomiting

excessive, above normal

blood condition

without, not

inflammation

stomach

chol/e: bile, gall

-lith: stone, calculus

softening

cartilage

enlargement

heart

tumor

nerve

abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood vessels)

disease

muscle

decrease, deficiency

red

fear

blood

paralysis

one half

bursting (of)

hemorrhage, menorrhagia

menses, menstruation

discharge, flow

through, across

rupture

artery

narrowing, stricture

artery

poison

liver

nourishment, development

bad; painful, difficult

not, without

a=before a consonant

an=before a vowel

around

breast

condition

feeling

act of leading, bringing, conducting

teeth

through, across

discharge, flow

feeling

vagina

double

vision

bacteria

in, within

secrete

muscle

same

transplantation

formation, growth

under, below, deficient

skin

large

cell

small

instrument for examining

one

nucleus

after, behind

birth

before, in front of

knowing

first

pregnant woman

backward, behind

turning

upper, above

cartilage

cell

tissue

nucleus

anterior, front

tail

far, farthest

back (of body)

lower, below

side, to one side

middle

back (of body), behind, posterior

near, nearest

upper, above

belly, belly side

toward

specialist in the study of

study of

separation; destruction; loosening

poison

• -ac
• -al
• -ar
• -ary
• -eal
• -iac
• -ic
• -ior
• -ous
• -tic

midsagittal

coronal

transverse

toward the head

away from

act of leading, bringing, conducting

abdomen

head

neck; cervix uteri (neck of uterus)

cranium (skull)

stomach

ilium

groin

loins (lower back)

pelvis

spine

chest

umbilicus, navel

band of scar tissue binding anatomical surfaces that are normally separate from each other

protective response of body tissues to irritation, infection or allergy

body's inflammatory response to infection, in which these is fever, elevated heart and respiratory rate, and low blood pressure

visual examination

visual examination of the interior organs and cavities with a specialized lighted instrument called an endoscope

luminous, fluorescence

radiographic procedure that uses a fluorescent screen instead of a photographic plate to produce a visual image from x-rays that pass through the patient, resulting in continuous imaging of the motion of internal structures and immediate serial images.

radiographic technique that uses electromagnetic energy to produce multiplanar cross-sectional images of the body

(good for abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord)

diagnostic technique that produces an image of an organ or area by recording the concentration of a radiopharmaceutical (radioactive substance {radionuclide} and another chemical) introduced into the body (ingested, inhaled, or injected)

production of captured shadow images on photographic film through the action of ionizing radiation passing through the body from an external source

(good for diagnosing fractures)

radiation, x-ray, radius

diagnostic, research, and therapeutic

drug that contains a radioactive substance which travels to an area or specific organ to be scanned

technique for carefully studying an area, organ, or system of the body by recording and displaying an image of the area

(CT, PET, and SPECT)

radiographic technique that produces a film representing a detailed cross-section, or slice of an area, tissue, or organ at a predetermined depth

narrow beam of x-rays that rotate in a full arc around the patient to acquire multiple views of the body that a computer interprets to produce cross-sectional images of that body part