Medical Terminology Chapters 1 & 2

aden/o

gland

cyt/o

cell

epitheli/o

epithelium

eti/o

cause of disease

fibr/o

fiber, fibrous tissue

hist/o

tissue

kary/o

nucleus

lip/o

fat

my/o

muscle

neur/o

nerve

organ/o

organ

sarc/o

sacrum

system/o

system

viscer/o

internal organs

cancer/o

cancer

carcin/o

cancerous, cancer

iatr/o

physician

gn/o

knowledge

onc/o

tumor

lei/o

smooth

somat/o

mouth

rhabd/o

rod-shaped, striated

chlor/o

green

chrom/o

color

cyan/o

blue

erythr/o

red

leuk/o

white

melan/o

black

xanth/o

yellow

dia-

through, complete

dys-

painful, difficult, abnormal

hyper-

excessive

hypo-

below, incomplete, deficient, under

meta-

after, beyond, change

neo-

new

pro-, pre-

before

-plasia

condition of formation, development, growth

-gen

substance or agent that produces or causes

-genic

producing, causing, originating

-ic, -ous

pertaining to

-oma

tumor

-osis

abnormal condition

-pathy

disease

-itis

inflammation

-logy

study of

-logsit

one who studies and treats

-stasis

control, stop, standing

-oid

resembling

-sarcoma

malignant tumor

-megaly

enlargement

-plasm

growth, substance, formation