HOSA Week Three — Cardiology Medical Terminology

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering prefixes, combining forms/roots, and suffixes for HOSA Week Three Cardiology medical terminology.

allo-

other, different

auto-

self

hetero-

different

homo-

same

iso-

equal, same

oligo-

few, scanty

circum-

around

infra-

below, beneath

exo-

outside, outward

de-

down, away from

co-

together, with

dis-

apart, away

re-

again, back

per-

through

ortho-

straight, upright, normal

ultra-

beyond, excess

multi-

many

tele-

distant

aort/o

aorta

atri/o

atrium

ventricul/o

ventricle

sept/o

septum, wall

valv/o

valve

valvul/o

valve

endocardi/o

inner heart lining

myocardi/o

heart muscle

pericardi/o

sac around heart

endotheli/o

lining of vessels

coron/o

heart's vessels

vas/o

vessel, duct

arteriol/o

small artery

venul/o

small vein

capill/o

capillary

sinus/o

sinus, cavity

nod/o

node, knot

papill/o

nipple-shaped

trabecul/o

small beam

chord/o

cord

sphygm/o

pulse

man/o

pressure

press/o

pressure

puls/o

pulse, beat

dynam/o

power, force

rhe/o

flow, current

dilat/o

widen, enlarge

constrict/o

to narrow

ox/i

oxygen

cyan/o

blue

thromb/o

clot

coagul/o

clotting

fibrin/o

fibrin, fibers

calc/i

calcium

-ar, -ary, -eal

pertaining to

-oid

resembling

-blast

immature cell

-cyte

cell

-cytosis

increase in cells

-poiesis

formation of cells

-genesis

formation, origin

-gen

producing, agent

-globin

protein

-crasia

blood condition

-philia

attraction, tendency

-phobia

fear

-stasis, -static

stopping, controlling

-trophy, -trophic

development, growth

-ectasis, -ectasia

dilation, stretching

-rrhexis

rupture

-paresis

partial weakness

-kinesia, -kinetic

movement

-lepsy

seizure, attack

-phylaxis

protection

-metry

process of measuring

-phoresis

carrying, transmission

-tome

instrument for cutting

-tension

pressure, tension