Medical Spelling

gnos/o

knowledge

iatr/o

treatment, physician

ophthalm/o

eye

sect/o

to cut

coccyg/o

coccyx

kary/o

nucleus

thel/o

nipple

umbilic/o

umbilical cord (one l)

cheil/o

lip

gloss/o

tongue

steat/o

fat

acanth/o

spiny and thorny

acetabul/o

acetabulum

acu/o

sharp and severe and sudden

-acusis

hearing

agglutin/o

clumping, sticking together

-agon

assemble, gather

agora

marketplace

-agra

excessive pain

alb/o or albin/o

white

alges/o

sensitivity to pain

-pepsia

digestion

-ptysis

spitting

-ectasis, -estasia

widening or dilation

-tresia

opening

ambly/o

dim, dull

amyl/o

starch

anis/o

unequal

anthrac/o

black (as coal)

anthr/o

antrum of stomach

-apheresis

removal, carrying away

aphth/o

ulcer

-arche

beginning

-arthria

articulate

-asthenia

lack of strength

atel/o

incomplete

ather/o

yellowish plaque

azot/o

urea, nitrogen

balan/o

glans penis

bartholin/o

bartholin glands

bil/i

bile, gall

bilirubin/o

bilirubin

bol/o

cast, throw

byssin/o

cotton dust

cac

bad

cal/i

calyx, cup-shaped

celi/o

belly, abdomen

-chalasia, -chalasis

relaxation

-chezia

defecation

chir/o

hand

chlorhydr/o

hydrochloric acid

choledoch/o

common bile duct

chor/e

dance

chor/i or chorion/o

chorion

chym/o

to pour

cib/o

meal

cine/o

movement

cirrh/o

orange-yellow

cis/o

cut

-clasis

to break

-clysis

irrigation, washing

coll/a

glue

comat/o

deep sleep

comi/o

to care for

con/i

dust

core/o

pupil

corpor/o

body

cortic/o

cortex

cras/o

mixture temperament

culd/o

cul-de-sac

-cusis

hearing

dactyl/o

fingers, toes

dacryocyst/o

tear sac, lacrimal sac

dessic/o

drying

diaphor/o

sweating

dips/o

thirsty

dur/o

dura mater

-elasma

flat plate

emmetr/o

in due measure, correct

epididym/o

epididymis

episi/o

vulva

erg/o

work

-ferent

to carry

-fida

split

ethm/o

sieve

exanthemat/o

rash

furc/o

forking, branching

galact/o

milk

gester/o

pregnancy

goni/o

angle

hidr/o

sweat

-hexia

state of

hypophys/o

pituitary gland

ichthy/o

dry, scaly, fish-like

-itus

condition

isch/o

back

kal/i

potassium

leiomy/o

smooth visceral muscle

lept/o

thin

lex/o

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