ILC Medical Terminology

isch/o

to hold back

-ist

specialist

-ose

sugar, full of pertaining to

-osmia

smell

-phylaxis

protection

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

physi/o

nature, function

auricul/o

ear

-ium

structure, tissue

ipsi-

same

peri-

surrounding

prot/o

first

prote/o

protein

scirrh/o

hard

cras/o

mixture, temperament

in-

in, into, not

-static

pertaining to stopping, controlling

klept/o

to steal

-crine

to secrete, to separate

-orexia

appetite

is/o

same, equal

irid/o

iris

acanth/o

spiny, throny

coll/a

glue

cib/o

meal

aphth/o

ulcer

erg/o

worl

per-

through

pros-

before, foward

chym/o

to pour

nid/o

nest

-praxia

action

staphyl/o

clusters, uvula

acu/o

sharp, severe, sudden

cauter/o

heat, burn

ster/o

solid structure, steroid

choroid/o

choroid

erythem/o

flushed redness

apo-

off, away

spondyl/o

vertebra

-rrhagia

bursting forth of blood

aden/o

gland

-esis

action, condition, state of

-salpinx

fallopian tube

ad-, -ad

toward

vag/o

vagus nerve

squam/o

scale

-opaque

obscure

nect/o

to bind, to tie, to connect

colp/o

vagina

pyel/o

renal pelvis

lux/o

so slide

-pepsia

digestion

-penia

deficiency

pend/o

to hang

ophthalm/o

eye

prurit/o

itching

corpor/o

body

-in

a substance

crani/o

skull

chore/o

dance

-opsy

view of

syn-

together, with

neutr/o

neither, neutral, neutrophil

eso-

inward

purul/o

pus

equin/o

horse

-tropin

stimulate, action

-prandial

meal

-scope

instrument for visual examination

-rrhage

bursting forth of blood

phren/o

diaphragm, mind

-stalsis

contraction

-lysis

breakdown, separation, destruction, loosening

-lithotomy

incision for removal of a stone

actin/o

light

prostat/o

prostate gland

acr/o

extremities, top, extreme point

anis/o

unequal

lute/o

yellow

-lytic

to reduce, to destroy, to separate, to breakdown

chron/o

time

stere/o

solid, three-dimensional

-motor

movement

pro-

before, forward

celi/o

belly, abdomen

-lucent

to shine

medi/o

middle

meat/o

meatus

maxill/o

maxilla

rachi/o

spinal column, vertebra

-stitial

to set, pertaining to standing or positioned

-sthenia

strength

cry/o

cold

quadri-

four

-crit

to separate

orch/o

testis

or/o

mouth

cine/o

movement

-cidal

pertaining to killing