Medical Terminology Chapter 1 (Caduceus)

Abscess

going away

alges

pain

algia

pain

ante

before

anter/o

before or foremost

aqua

water

auscult/o

to listen

bacill/o

rod-like

bacill/us

rod-like (bacteria)/ refers to

bacteri/o

bacteria

bio

life

bucca

cheek

cal/o

heat, heated or hot

capit/o

head

caud/o

tail or toward tail

caust/o

burn or heat

cauter/o

to burn or to heat

centesis

surgical puncture to drain fluid

centr/i

center

cephal/o

head

cept

receiver

cine/o

movement filming

cis

cut or to cut

clysis

irrigation or injection

coccus

berry-shaped bacterium

coronal plane

crowning or frontal body cut

cryo

cold

curett/o

scooping or scarping

cyte

cell or chamber

deep

most inward

dem/o

people

depress/o

lower

desis

binding or to bind

dextr/o

right

different

to separate

dist/o

farther from

doct/o

to teach or teacher

dol/o

pain

dors/o

back

duct/o

to draw or to lead away

dynam/o

work or strength

dynam/ics

work or strength/refers to

dynamo/meter

strength/measurement

(measure the strength of muscles)

dynia

pain

echo

sound

ectomy

excision or removal

electr/o

electrical

feber/o

fever

gen/o

race

geni/o

chin

graft

to probe or cut with a knife

gram

to record

graphy

procedure of using an instrument to do recording

In Situ

in position or location

infect/o

to invade

ing

procedure of or process of

intro

within

intus

within

ion/o

going or ion movement

ipsi

equal

ir

not or lack of

ish

resembling or related to

ism

state or condition of

ist

specialist

itis

inflamed or inflammation

ity

state of

ize

state of or acts like

lax

to loosen or loosening

lepto

thin or slender

liter

liter

lysis

destruction, breakdown, declining

mal

bad, harm, injury

mata

multiple

metry

measurement procedure

milli

one thousandth

minimus

smallest

minute

small

mitr/e

head band or mitre box

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

mucle/o

nut

o/plasty

repair or plastic surgery

oid

resembling

onc/o

tumor

-orrhaphy

suturing or repair

ostomy

mouth like opening produced by surgery

otomy

cutting, to cut, cut into

otripsy

crushing or to crush

pall/o

pale or lack of color

palpat/o

touching or to touch

palpit

quivering or fluttering

pharmaco/o

drug

pheresis

withdrawal or to separate

phot/o

light

physi/o

function of or nature of

plas

growth, development, formation

pro

before

prone

to bend forward

proxim/o

close or closest

pyo

pus

pyret/o

fever

radi/o

ray, spoke, X-ray, radio activity

ray

spoke or wave length

roent/o

x-ray