McGraw Hill-Ch1 Medical Terminology

prefix for 'before'

pre-

ante-

dys-

bad

ab-

away

ad-

toward

peri-

around

trans-

through

ex-

out

-logy

study of

-algia

pain

-emia

blood condition

-itis

inflammation

-iatry

medical science

prefix for 'half'

semi-

hemi-

-stomy

creation of an opening

-tomy

incision

-rrhaphy

suture

-pexy

surgical fixation

-scope

instrument used to look

-metry

process of measuring

-meter

instrument used to measure

-graphy

process of recording

-graph

instrument used to produce a record

-gram

written record

-centesis

puncture

prefix for 'against'

anti-

contra-

-desis

binding

-ectomy

removal

-plasty

reconstruction

suffixes for small?

-icle

-ula

-ole

xer/o

dry

xen/o

foreign

myc/o

fungus

troph/o

nourishment

sten/o

narrowing

scler/o

hard

py/o

pus

-rrhexis

rupture

-rrhage

excessive flow

hernia

-cele

deficiency

-penia

flow

-rrhea

drooping

-ptosis

rupture

-rrhexis

loosen, break down

-lysis

resembling

-oid

presence

-iasis

-ist

specialist

-logist

specialist in the study of

-cele

hernia

-iasis

presence of

-malacia

softening

-oid

resembling

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-ptosis

drooping

-spasm

involuntary contraction

prefixes that mean 'together'

con-

sym-

syn-