Medical Prefixes, Roots, and Color Forms for Anatomy and Physiology

A comprehensive collection of medical roots, prefixes, suffixes, color forms, and anatomical vocabulary from the lecture notes.

Aden/o

gland

Cardi/o

heart

Dermat/o

skin

Gastr/o

stomach

Hemat/o

blood

Nephr/o

kidney

Ophthalm/o

eye

Pulmon/o

lung

Cyan/o

blue

Erythr/o

red

Leuk/o

white

Melan/o

black

Xanth/o

yel low

Rhin/o

nose

Olig/o

scanty or few (very little)

Cyt/o

cel l

Enter/o

intestines (smal l)

A

without

Ante

before / in front

Anti

against

Brady

slow

Dys

difficult / painful

Endo

within / inner

Epi

over / upon

Hyper

above / excessive

Hypo

below / deficient

Inter

among / between

Intra

within / inside

Como

per through

Peri

around

Pseudo

false

Retro

backward / behind

Sub

under / below

Tachy

rapid / fast

Trans

through / across

Macro

abnormal ly large

Contra

against

-algia

pain

-cele

hernia, protrusion

-dynia

pain

-gen, -genesis, -genic

Form of producing or generating

-iasis

abnormal condition

-malacia

abnormal softening

-megaly

enlargement, large

-pathy

disease

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-sclerosis

hardening

-stasis

control, stop, standing

-stenosis

narrowing

-trophy

nourishment, development

-uria

urine condition

-ia

condition of

-centesis

puncture to remove fluid

-ectomy

excision, removal

-otomy

cutting into

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

suture

-gram

Record, picture

-graph

instrument for recording

-graphy

process of recording

-scope

instrument for viewing

-scopy

process of visual ly examining

Viscer/o

internal organs

myocardio

heart muscle

Ot/o

ear

Derm/o

pertaining to the skin

Neur/o

nerve, nervous system

Oste/o

bone

bronch/o, bronch/i

bronchus

encephal/o

brain

hist/o, histi/o

tissue

lip/o

fat, lipid

Thorac/o

thorax, chest

Aort/o

aorta

My/o

muscle

valv/o, valvul/o

valve

Lymph/o

lymphocyte

lymphaden/o

lymph node

Ht, Hct, crit

hematocrit

Trache/o

trachea, windpipe

Phren/o

diaphragm

arthr/o

joint

lapar/o

abdomen, abdominal wal l

Colp/o

vagina

Pneum/o pneumat/o

air, gas, lung respiration

Ad

toward

Pan

al l, entire

hemi-

half

gloss/o

tongue

Or/o

mouth

Lingu/o

Tongue

Lith/o

stone, calculus

Sigmoid/o

sigmoid colon

Rect/o

Rectum

proct/o

rectum and anus

hepat/o

liver

chol/e, chol/o

bile, gal l

pyel/o

renal pelvis

Cyst/o

urinary bladder, cyst, sac of fluid