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Aden/o

gland
appendic/o
append/o

appendix
arteri/o

artery
arthr/o

joint
bi/o

life
cardi/o

heart
col/o
colon/o

colon
crani/o

cranium (skull)
cyt/o

cell
enter/o

intestine
glyc/o
glycos/o

sugar
hepat/o

liver
hist/o

tissue
hydr/o

water, fluid
leuk/o

white
lith/o

stone, calculus
my/o

muscle
neur/o

nerve
oste/o

bone
path/o

disease
ren/o,
nephr/o

kidney
ven/o

vein
acr/o

extremities, height
ped/o

child, infant, foot
thromb/o

clot
thorac/o

thorax (chest)
the/o

put
secti/o

incision (cut into)
muc/o

mucus
derm/o,
dermat/o

skin
therm/o

heat
splen/o

spleen
gen/o

creating
tens/o

pressure
gloss/o

tounge
gastr/o

stomach
hem/o,
hemat/o

blood
pulmon/o

lung
norm/o

proper, rule
myel/o

bone marrow, spinal cord
bronch/i,
bronch/o

bronchus
cephal/o

head (upward)
cervic/o

cervix
chondr/o

cartilage
crin/o

to separate from blood, secrete
cutane/o,
derm/o,
dermat/o

skin
dactyl/o

digits, fingers, toes
eosin/o

rose colored
erythr/o

red
furc/o

branch, fork
gnos/o

knowledge
lapar/o

abdomen
lymph/o

watery fluid
morph/o

form, structure
mort/o

death
necr/o

death (cells, body)
ophthalm/o

eye
ot/o

ear
tom/o

cut, section
son/o

sound
gynec/o

female
electr/o

electricity, electrical activity
chem/o

chemical drug
axill/o

armpit
adip/o

fat tissues
abdomin/o

abdomen, abdominal cavity
angi/o

vessel
cancer/o,
carcin/o

cancer
cerebr/o

cerebrum, brain
cis/o

cut
cyst/o,
vesic/o

bladder, sac
klept/o

steal
laryng/o

voicebox, larynx
mandibul/o

lower jaw
maxill/o

upper jaw
ox/o

oxygen
acu/o

sudden, sharp
vit/o

living, alive
sarc/o

flesh, connective tissue
nect/o

bind
nat/o

birth, born
iatr/o

physician, medicine (also means treatment)
cost/o

rib
pro-

before
dys-

painful, abnormal, difficult, labored
ab-

away from
trans-

across
auto-

self
para-

around, beside, beyond
hypo-

below, incomplete, deficient
retro-

behind, back
infra-

inferior to, below
de-

lessened, removed
cata-

negative, down
epi-

on, upon, over
in-

into, not
post-

after, past
meta-

after, beyond, change
syn-

together, with
sym-

together
ultra-

beyond, higher than
re-

again, back
con-

with
contra-

opposed, agianst
poly-

many
bi-

two
a-,
an-

without, absent
ac-

toward, near
ad-

toward, near
anti-

against, opposed
brady-

slower than usual
ecto-
exo-

outer, out side
en-,
endo-

within
intra-

within
hemi-

half
macro-

large, gross
micro-

small, tiny
pan-

all, every
per-

through
pre-

before
sub-

under, below
tachy-

faster than usual
dia-

through, complete
inter-

between
peri-

around, surrounding
ec-,
ex-

outside, outer
hyper-

above, excessive
-lysis,
-lytic

loosening, dissolution, seperating
*-plasia

condition of formation, development, growth
-rrhea

flow, excessive discharge
-ptosis

drooping, sagging, prolapse
-ar,
-ary,
-ac,
-iac

relating to
-oid

resembling
-osis

abnormal condition (increased)
-ium,
-um

structure
-ist

one who does, one who specializes in
-eal,
-tic

relating to
-plasty

surgical repair
-malicia

softening
-therapy

treatment
-stomy

surgically created body opening
-stoma

body opening (to the outside)
-fusion

pour, bond
-drome

run
-blast

undifferentiated, original
*-genesis

origin, cause
-mania,
-maniac

excessive preoccupation or obsession
-penia

lack of, decreased, poor
-trophy

nourishment, development
-trophic

relating to growth, development
-al,
-ic,
-ous

pertaining to
-otic,
-tic

relating to a condition
-sis

state of
-y

process of
-stasis

control, stop , standing
-ism

situation, process, condition
-ia

condition of diseased or abnormal state
-ior

pertaining to
-oma

tumor, swelling
-partum

labor, delivery
-tome

instrument to cut
-tomy

cut into or slice
-algia

pain
-centesis

withdrawing fluid
-cyte

cell
-ectomy

excision or surgical removal
-emia,
-hemia

throughout the blood
-grade

go
-gram

picture, record, tracing
-graph

instrument that creates a picture or recording
-graphy

process of creating a picture, record, tracing
-itis,
-itic

inflamation
-logy

study of
-megaly

enlargement
-meter

distance measure, instrument to measure
-opsy

view of, viewing, look at
-pathy

disease
-scope

instrument to see through or with
-ose

like, relating to (also suffix for chemical name for sugar )
phag/o

eat, swallow, engulf
psych/o

mind
phob/o

fear
radi/o

rays or waves, x-ray, radius, forearm
physi/o

nature, natural
rect/o

upright, rectum
*plasm/o

development, growth
rhin/o

nose
pneum/o,
pneumon/o

air, gas, lung, air sacs
seps/o
sept/i

infection, bacteria
thyr/o

shield, thyroid
tonsill/o

tonsils
top/o

location
tox/o

poison, damaging
trache/o

windpipe
vertebr/o

vertebrae, back bones
ana-

positive, up
ante-

before
eu-

normal, even, good
mal-

bad, abnormal
meso-

middle
pseudo-

false
semi-

half
supra-,
super-

above, superior to
-cele

sac protruding, hernia
-crine

secrete
-cyesis

pregnancy
-phage

eat, swallow, engulf
-dynia

pain
-pexy

affix, attach into place
-phobia

fear
-phoria

bear
-physis

grow
-pnea

breathing
-poiesis

formation
-sclerosis,
-sclerotic

hardening

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medical terminology

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2010-08-28T05:49:45Z

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