Medical Terminology (AHS-129) Chapter 3&4

  1. What is the root word for abdomen?
    abdomin/o
  2. What is the root word for extremities, top, extreme point?
    acr/o
  3. What is the root word for sharp, severe, sudden?
    acu/o
  4. What is the root word for gland?
    aden/o
  5. What is the root word for fat?
    adip/o
  6. What is the root word for amnion (sac surrounding the embryo in the uterus)?
    amni/o
  7. What is the root word for vessel?
    angi/o
  8. What is the root word for artery?
    arteri/o
  9. What is the root word for joint?
    arthr/o
  10. What is the root word for armpit?
    axill/o
  11. What is the root word for life?
    bi/o
  12. What is the root word for eyelid?
    blephar/o
  13. What is the root word for bronchial tubes (two tubes, one right and one left, that branch
  14. from the trachea to enter the lungs)?
    bronch/o
  15. What is the root word for cancer?
    carcin/o
  16. What is the root word for heart?
    cardi/o
  17. What is the root word for drug, chemical?
    chem/o
  18. What is the root word for cartilage?
    chondr/o
  19. What is the root word for time?
    chron/o
  20. What is the root word for colon (large intestine)?
    col/o
  21. What is the root word for urinary bladder?
    cyst/o
  22. What is the root word for brain?
    encephal/o
  23. What is the root word for red?
    erythr/o
  24. What is the root word for blood?
    hem/o
  25. What is the root word for liver?
    hepat/o
  26. What is the root word for water/fluid?
    hydr/o
  27. What is the root word for groin?
    inguin/o
  28. What is the root word for to hold back?
    isch/o
  29. What is the root word for abdomen, abdominal wall?
    lapar/o
  30. What is the root word for larynx?
    laryng/o (substitute g for x in other words that end in x; coccyx, pharynx, phalanx)
  31. What is the root word for white?
    leuk/o
  32. What is the root word for lymph?
    lymph/o
  33. What is the root word for breast? (2)
    mamm/o mast/o
  34. What is the root word for shape, form?
    morph/o
  35. What is the root word for mucus?
    muc/o
  36. What is the root word for muscle?
    my/o
  37. What is the root word for spinal cord, bone marrow?
    myel/o
  38. What is the root word for death (of cells or whole body)?
    necr/o
  39. What is the root word for kidney? (2)
    nephr/o ren/o
  40. What is the root word for nerve?
    neur/o
  41. What is the root word for neutrophil (a white blood cell)?
    neutr/o
  42. What is the root word for nucleus?
    nucle/o
  43. What is the root word for eye?
    opthalm/o
  44. What is the root word for bone?
    oste/o
  45. What is the root word for ear?
    ot/o
  46. What is the root word for disease?
    path/o
  47. What is the root word for peritoneum?
    peritone/o
  48. What is the root word for to eat, swallow?
    phag/o
  49. What is the root word for vein? (2)
    phleb/o ven/o
  50. What is the root word for formation, development?
    plas/o
  51. What is the root word for pleura (membrane surrounding lungs and adjacent to chest wall)?
    pleur/o
  52. What is the root word for lungs? (2)
    pneumon/o pulmon/o
  53. What is the root word for x-rays?
    radi/o
  54. What is the root word for rectum?
    rect/o
  55. What is the root word for nose?
    rhin/o
  56. What is the root word for flesh?
    sarc/o
  57. What is the root word for spleen?
    splen/o
  58. What is the root word for clusters?
    staphyl/o
  59. What is the root word for twisted chains?
    strept/o
  60. What is the root word for chest?
    thorac/o
  61. What is the root word for clot?
    thromb/o
  62. What is the root word for tonsils?
    tonsill/o
  63. What is the root word for trachea (windpipe)?
    trache/o
  64. What is the noun suffix for pain? (2)
    -algia -dynia
  65. What is the noun suffix for hernia?
    -cele
  66. What is the noun suffix for surgical puncture to remove fluid>
    -centesis
  67. What is the noun suffix for berry-shaped bacterium(singular) bacteria(plural)?
    -coccus (s) -cocci (pl)
  68. What is the noun suffix for cell?
    -cyte
  69. What is the noun suffix for excision, removal, resection?
    -ectomy
  70. What is the noun suffix for blood condition
    -emia
  71. What is the noun suffix for condition of, producing, forming?
    -genesis
  72. What is the noun suffix for record?
    -gram
  73. What is the noun suffix for instrument for recording?
    -graph
  74. What is the noun suffix for inflammation?
    -itis
  75. What is the noun suffix for study of?
    -logy
  76. What is the noun suffix for breakdown, destruction, separation?
    -lysis
  77. What is the noun suffix for softening?
    -malacia
  78. What is the noun suffix for enlargement?
    -megaly
  79. What is the noun suffix for tumor, mass, collection of fluid?
    -oma
  80. What is the noun suffix for to view?
    -opsy
  81. What is the noun suffix for condition, usually abnormal?
    -osis
  82. What is the noun suffix for disease condition?
    -pathy
  83. What is the noun suffix for deficiency?
    -penia
  84. What is the noun suffix for fear?
    -phobia
  85. What is the noun suffix for development, formation, growth?
    -plasia
  86. What is the noun suffix for surgical repair?
    -plasty
  87. What is the noun suffix for drooping, falling, prolapse?
    -ptosis
  88. What is the noun suffix for hardening?
    -sclerosis
  89. What is the noun suffix for instrument for visual examination?
    -scope
  90. What is the noun suffix for process of visual examination?
    -scopy
  91. What is the noun suffix for controlling, stopping?
    -statis
  92. What is the noun suffix for opening to form a mouth?
    -stomy
  93. What is the noun suffix for treatment?
    -therapy
  94. What is the noun suffix for incision, cutting into?
    -tomy
  95. What is the noun suffix for development, nourishment?
    -trophy
  96. What is the noun suffix for one who?
    -er (radiographer)
  97. What is the noun suffix for condition?
    -ia (leukemia)
  98. What is the noun suffix for specialist?
    -ist
  99. What is the noun suffix for little, small? (2)
    -ole (arteriole) -ule (venule)
  100. What is the noun suffix for structure, tissue? (2)
    -um, -ium
  101. What is the noun suffix for structure, substance?
    -us (mucus)
  102. What is the noun suffix for condition, process?
    -y (nephropathy)
  103. What is the adjective suffix for pertaining to? (11)
    -ac, -iac (cardiac), -al (pleural), -ar (tonsilar), -ary (pulmonary), -eal (laryngeal), -
  104. genic (carcinogenic), -ic (chronic), -ical (pathological), -ous (mucous), -tic (necrotic)
  105. What is the adjective suffix for resembling, derived from?
    -oid (adenoids)
  106. What is the adjective suffix for pertaining to, full of?
    -ose (adipose)
  107. What is the root word for wrist bones?
    carp/o
  108. What is the root word for meals?
    cib/o
  109. What is the root word for to cut?
    cis/o
  110. What is the root word for rib?
    cost/o
  111. What is the root word for skin?
    cutane/o
  112. What is the root word for fingers, toes?
    dactyl/o
  113. What is the root word for to lead, carry?
    duct/o
  114. What is the root word for to bend?
    flex/o
  115. What is the root word for forking, branching?
    furc/o
  116. What is the root word for tongue?
    gloss/o
  117. What is the root word for sugar?
    glyc/o
  118. What is the root word for protection?
    immun/o
  119. What is the root word for shape, form?
    morph/o
  120. What is the root word for death?
    mort/o
  121. What is the root word for birth?
    nat/i
  122. What is the root word for to bind, tie, connect?
    nect/o
  123. What is the root word for rule, order?
    norm/o
  124. What is the root word for oxygen?
    ox/o
  125. What is the root word for pubis?
    pub/o
  126. What is the root word for infection?
    seps/o
  127. What is the root word for sleep?
    somn/o
  128. What is the root word for sound?
    son/o
  129. What is the root word for to put, place?
    the/o
  130. What is the root word for nipple? (2)
    thel/o, theli/o
  131. What is the root word for thyroid gland, shield?
    thyr/o
  132. What is the root word for place, position, location?
    top/o
  133. What is the root word for poison?
    tox/o
  134. What is the root word for windpipe, trachea
    trache/o
  135. What is the root word for urethra?
    urethr/o
  136. What is the suffix for embryonic, immature?
    -blast
  137. What is the suffix for to secrete?
    -crine
  138. What is the suffix for to run?
    -drome
  139. What is the suffix for coming together; to pour?
    -fusion
  140. What is the suffix for substance that produces?
    -gen
  141. What is the suffix for to slide, fall, sag?
    -lapse
  142. What is the suffix for breakdown, destruction, separation?
    -lysis
  143. What is the suffix for to measure?
    -meter
  144. What is the suffix for to send?
    -mission
  145. What is the suffix for one who?
    -or
  146. What is the suffix for oxygen?
    -oxia
  147. What is the suffix for birth, labor?
    -partum
  148. What is the suffix for to bear, carry; feeling (mental state)?
    -phoria
  149. What is the suffix for to grow?
    -physis
  150. What is the suffix for development, formation, growth?
    -plasia
  151. What is the suffix for structure or foundation?
    -plasm
  152. What is the suffix for breathing
    -pnea
  153. What is the prefix for no, not without? (2)
    -a, -an (apnea) continue on p109
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Medical Terminology (AHS-129) Chapter 3&4
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