Medical Terminology Exam 1

Aden/o

Gland

Arthr/o

Joint

Bi/o

Life

Carcin/o

Cancerous

Cardi/o

Heart

Cephal/o

Head

Cerebr/o

Cerebrum (Largest part of the brain)

Cis/o

To cut

Crin/o

To secrete (to form and give off)

Cyst/o

Urinary Bladder/ A sac or a cyst containing fluid

Cyt/o

Cell

Derm/o / Dermat/o

Skin

Electr/o

Electricity

Encephal/o

Brain

Enter/o

Intestines (usually small intestines)

Erythr/o

Red

Gastr/o

Stomach

Glyc/o

Sugar

Gnos/o

Knowledge

Gynec/o

Women/Female

Hemat/o Hem/o

Blood

Hepat/o

Liver

iatr/o

Treatment, Physician

Leuk/o

White

Log/o

Study of

Nephr/o

Kidney

Neur/o

Nerve

Onc/o

Turmor, Cancerous

Opthalm/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

Pertaining to

-al

Pertaining to

-algia

pain

-cyte

cell

-ectomy

Excision, removal

-emia

Blood condition

-genic

pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

-globin

protein

-gram

Record

-ic, ical

pertaining to

-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-

out, outside of, outward

hyper-

excessive, above, more than normal

hypo-

Deficient, below, under, less than normal

in-

into, in

Peri-

surrounding, around

pro-

before, forward

re-

back, backward, again

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through

Abdomin/o

Abdomen

adip/o

Fat

Anter/o

Front

Cervic/o

Chondr/o

Chrom/o

Color

Coccyg/o

Coccyx tailbone

Crani/o

Skull

Dist/o

Far, Distant

Dors/o

Back portion of the body

Hist/o

Tissue

ili/o

ilium (upper part of the hip bone)

Kary/o

Nucleus

Later/o

Side

Lumb/o

lower back

medi/o

middle

Nucle/o

Nucleus

Pelv/i

Pelvis

pharyng/o

pharynx (throat)

Poster/o

back, behind

proxim/o

nearest

sacr/o

sacrum

spin/o

spine, backbone