acous/o
hearing
acoust/o
hearing; sound
ambly/o
dull; dim
aque/o
water
audi/o, audit/o
hearing
blephar/o
eyelid
cerumin/o
cerumen
cochle/o
cochlea
conjunctiv/o
conjunctiva
cor/o, core/o
pupil
corne/o
cornea
cyst/o
cyst; fluid sac; bladder
dacry/o
tear
dipl/o
double
glauc/o
gray
graph/o
writing
gustat/o
taste
ir/o, irid/o
iris
kerat/o
cornea
lacrim/o
tears
mi/o
smaller; less
mydr/o
widened; enlarged
myring/o
tympanic membrane; eardrum
nyct/o
night
ocul/o
eye
olfact/o
smell
ophthalm/o
eye
opt/o, optic
eye; vision
ossic/o
ossicle (small bone)
ot/o
ear
papill/o
optic disc; nipple-like
phac/o, phak/o
lens of the eye
phot/o
light
presby/o
old age
retin/o
retina
salping/o
Eustachian (auditory) tube; Fallopian tube
scot/o
darkness
staped/o
stapes (middle ear bone)
steat/o
sebum; fat
stigmat/o
point
vestibul/o
vestibule
vitr/o
vitreous body
vitre/o
glassy
a-, an-
not; without
ec-
out; outside
en-
in; within
eso-
inward
exo-
outward
hyper-
above; above normal; excessive
hypo-
below; below normal; deficient
intra-
within; into
-al, -atic, -ic, -ory, -ous, -tic
pertaining to
-cusis
hearing
-ectomy
surgical removal; excision
-esthesia
feeling; sensation
-ia
condition
-ion
process; state; condition
-ism
process; condition
-itis
inflammation
-metry
process of measuring
-oma
tumor; mass
-opia
vision condition
-osmia
smell condition
-otia
ear condition
-pathy
disease
-plasty
surgical repair
-ptosis
droop; sag; prolapse; protrude
-sclerosis
hardening; thickening
-scope
instrument used to view
-scopy
visual examination using a scope
-tomy
process of cutting; incision
-tropia
to turn