Medical terminology chp 1

Gastr (root)

Stomach

Hemat (root)

Blood

Hypo (prefix)

Below

EPI (prefix)

Above

Cardi/o (combining form)

Heart

Aden/o (combining form)

Gland

Athr/o (combining form)

Joint

Bi/o (combining form)

Life

Carcin/o (combining form)

Cancerous/ cancer

Cephal/o (combining form)

Head

Cerebr/o (combining form)

Cerebrum= largest part of the brain

Cis/o (Combining form)

To cut

Crin/o

To secrete

Cyst/o (combining form)

A sac or a cyst

Cyt/ o (combining form)

Cell

Derm/o. Dermat/o (combining form)

Skin

encephal/o (combining form)

Brain

Enter/o (combining form)

Intestines usually the small intestine

Erythr/o (combining form)

Red

Glyc/o (combining form)

Sugar

Gnos/o (combining form)

Knowledge

Gynec/o (combining form)

Woman/ female

Hem/o (combining form)

Blood

Hepat/o

Liver

iatr/o (combining form)

Treatment/physician

Leuk/o (combining form)

White

Log/o (combining form)

study of

Nephr/o

Kidney

Neur/o

Nerve

onc/o

Tumor (cancerous)

Ophthalm/o

Eye

Oste/o

Bone

Path/o

Disease

Ped/o

Child

Psych/o

Mind

Radi/o

X-rays

ren/o

Kidney

Rhin/o

Nose

Sarc/o

Flesh

Sect/o

To cut

Thromb/o

Clot / clotting

Ur/o

Urinary tract/ urine

-ac (suffix)

Pertaining to ex. Cardiac

-al (suffix)

Pertaining to ex.neural

-algia (suffix)

Pain

-cyte (suffix)

Cell

-ectomy

Excision / removal

-emia

Blood condition

-genic

Pertaining to, producing, produced by, produced in

-globin

Protein

-gram

Record

-ic / -ical

Pertaining to ex.gastric

-ion

Process

-ist

Specialist

-itis

Inflammation

-logy

Process of study

-Oma

Tumor,mass,swelling

-opsy

Process of viewing

-osis

Condition usually abnormal

-pathy

Disease condition

-scope

Instrument to visually examine

-scopy

Process of visually examining

-sis

State of/ condition

-tomy

process of cutting/ incision

-y

Process / condition

A- / an-

No, not, without

Aut- / auto-

Self / own

Dia-

Complete, through

Endo-

Within

EPI-

Above, upon

Ex- / exo-

Outside of , out, outward

Hyper-

Excessive, above, more than normal

Hypo-

Deficient, below, less than normal, under

In-

Into, in

Peri-

Surrounding, around

Pro-

Before, forward

Re-

Back, backwards, redo

Retro-

Behind

Sub-

Below, under

Trans-

Across, through