Quick and easy medical terminology 10th edition: PART 1 (set 1)

cardi/o

heart

crino/o

to secrete

dermat/o

skin

esthesi/o

feeling or sensation

gaster/o, enter/o

stomach, intestines

ger/a, ger/o, geront/o

elderly

gynec/o

female

immun/o

immune

ne/o, nat/o

new, birth

neur/o

nerve

obstetr/o

midwife

onc/o

tumor

othalm/o

eye

orth/o

straight

ped/o

child

ot/o

ear

laryng/o

larynx

path/o

disease

psych/o

mind

radi/o

radiation or radius

rehumat/o

rehumatism

rhin/o

nose

ur/o

urinary tract

Procedure Suffix: -centesis

surgical puncture to aspirate fluid

Procedure Suffix: -ectomy

surgical removal

Procedure Suffix: -lysis

process of loosening, freeing, destroying

Procedure Suffix: -pexy

surgical fixation

Procedure Suffix: -plasty

surgical repair

Procedure Suffix: -rrhaphy

suture

Procedure Suffix: -scopy

visual examination with a lighted instrument

Procedure Suffix: -stomy

formation of an opening

Procedure Suffix: -tome

instrument used for cutting

Procedure Suffix: -tomy

incision

Procedure Suffix: -tripsy

surgical crushing

aden/o

gland

angi/o

vessel

append/o, appendic/o

appendix

bi/o

life

blephar/o

eyelid

cerebr/o, encephal/o

brain

chir/o

hand

col/o

colon

cutane/o, dermat/o

skin

faci/o

face

hepat/o

liver

mamm/o, mast/o

breast

myel/o

bone marrow or spinal cord

oste/o

bone

pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o

lungs

tonsill/o

tonsils

trache/o

trachea

vas/o

vessel/ ducts

my/o

muscle

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -algia, -dynia

pain

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -cele

hernia

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -ectasia, -ectasis

dilation

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -edema

swelling

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -emesis

vomiting

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -emia

condition of the blood

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -ia, -iasis

condition

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -itis

inflammation

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -lith

stone or calculus

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -malacia

softtening

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -mania

excessive preocupation

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -megaly

enlargement

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -oid

resembling

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -oma

tumor

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -osis

abnormal condition

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -pathy

disease

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -penia

defficiency

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -phobia

abnormal fear

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -ptosis

prolapse or sagging

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -rrhage

hemmorage

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -rrhea

flow or discharge

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -rrhexis

rupture

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -spasm

cramp or twitching

Symptom/ Diagnosis suffix: -stasis

stopping or controlling

-ase

enzyme

-iac

one who suffers

-opia (ex: diplopia)

vision

-ose (ex: glucose)

sugar

-ous (ex: cancerous)

pertaining to/ characterized by

-y (ex: atrophy)

state or condition

adip/o, lip/o

fat

amyl/o

starch

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood

lact/o

milk

lith/o

stone

micr/o

small

muc/o

mucus

prote/o, protein/o

protein

pyr/o

fire

mono-, uni-

one

bi-, di-

two

tri-

three

quad-, tetra-

four

centi-

one hundred/ one hundreth

milli-

one thousandth

diplo-

double