Anatomy Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Anatomy

A-

Not

Ab-

Away

Ad-

Towards

Adip-

Fat

Anti-

Against

Arthr-

Joint

Auto-

Self

Axill-

Armpit

Bi-

Two

Cardi-

Heart

Cepha-

Head

Cerebr-

Brain

Chond-

Cartilage

-Cide

Kill

Circum-

Around a circle

-Cyte

Cell

Derm-

Skin

Digit-

Finger

Dys-

Difficulty

Ecto- / Exo-

Outside

-Ectomy

Removal

Endo-

Inside

Entero-

Intestines

Erythr-

Red

Foramen

Hole

Gastro-

Stomach

Gen-

Produce

Gloss-

Tongue

-Graph

Recording

Hema-

Blood

Hepa-

Liver

Hyper-

Extreme

Hypo-

Low

Infra-

Below

Inter-

Between

-Itis

Swelling of

Labi-

Lip

Lacrim-

Tear

Lact-

Milk

Leuk- / Alb-

White

Marco-

Large

Megalo-

Enlargement

Mela-

Black

Meta-

Beyond

Mirco-

Small

Myo-

Muscle

Nas-

Nose

Necr-

Death

Neur-

Nerve

Ocul-

Eye

Ology-

The study of

-Oma

Tumor

Oo- / Ovi-

Egg

-Opsy

Examination of

Or(o)-

Mouth

-Osis

Condition or Disease

Oste-/Os-

Bone

Papill-

Nipple

-Paresis

Slight Paralysis

Path-

Disease

Pector-

Chest

Peri-

Around

-Phage-

Eat

-Phile

Lover

-Pod-/-Ped-

Foot

-Poeisis

Production

Post-

After

Pre-

Before

Psych-

Mind

Ptery-

Wing

Pulmon-

Lung

Pyr-

Fire

Quad-

Four

Re-

Backwards

Rect-

Straight

Ren-

Kidney

-Scler

Hardening

Scoli-

Twisting

-Scopy

Using a Camera to view

Sep-

Wall

Semi-

Partially

-Stalsis

Contraction

-Stomy

Medically created hole

Strat-

Layers

Sub-

Below

Super-/Supra-

Above

Therm-

Heat

Thromb-

Blood clot

Trans-

Across

Tri-

Three

Trich-

Hair

-Trophy

Nourish

Vas-

Tube