Chapter 2: The Language of Medicine

abdomin/o

abdomen

adip/o

fat

anter/o

front

cervic/o

neck (of the body or of the uterus)

chondr/o

cartilage (type of connective tissue)

chrom/o

color

coccyg/o

coccyx (tailbone)

crani/o

skull

cyt/o

cell

dist/o

far, distant

dors/o

back portion of the body

hist/o

tissue

ili/o

ilium (upper part of the hip bone)

inguin/o

groin

kary/o

nucleus

later/o

side

lumb/o

lower back

medi/o

middle

nucle/o

nucleus

pelv/i

pelvis

pharyng/o

pharynx (throat)

poster/o

back, behind

proxim/o

nearest

sacr/o

sacrum

sarc/o

flesh

spin/o

spine, backbone

thel/o, theli/o

nipple

thorac/o

chest

trache/o

trachea, windpipe

umbilic/o

navel, umbilicus

ventr/o

belly side of the body

vertebr/o

vertebra(e), backbone(s)

viscer/o

internal organs

ana-

up

cata-

down

epi-

above

hypo-

below

inter-

between

intra-

within

meta-

change

-eal

pertaining to

-iac

pertaining to

-ior

pertaining to

-ism

process, condition

-ose

pertaining to, full of

-plasm

formation

-somes

bodies

-type

picture, classification