Med Term ch1

arthr/o

joint

enter/o

small intestine

gastr/o

stomach

hepat/o

liver

hem/o and hemat/o

blood

my/o and muscul/o

muscle

angi/o, vas/o, and vascul/o

vessel

derm/o, derat/o, and cutane/o

skin

pneum/o, pneumon/o and pulmon/o

lung

gen/o

creation

morph/o

shape/form

myc/o

fungus

orthr/o

straight

path/o

suffering, disease

plas/o

formation

py/o

pus

scler/o

hard

sten/o

narrowing

troph/o

nourishment, development

xen/o

foreign

-iatrics

medical science

-algia, -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia

-emia

blood condition

-iasis

presence of

-lysis

loosen, break down

-malacia

abnormal softening

-megaly

enlargement

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhage, -rrhagia

excessive flow

-rrhea

flow

-rrhexis

rupture

-centesis

puncture

-gram

written record

-graph

instrument used to produce a record

-graphy

writing procedure

-meter

instrument used to measure

-metry

process of measuring

—scope

instrument used to look

-scopy

process of looking

-desis

binding/fixation

-pexy

surgical fixation

-plasty

reconstruction

-rrhaphy

suture

-stomy

creation of an opening

-tomy

incision

a-, an-

not

anti-, contra-

against

de-

down, away from

pro-

before, on behalf of

re-

again

brady-

slow

dia-, trans

through

e-, ec-, ex-

out

ecto-, exo- extra-

outside

en-, endo-, intra-

in, inside

epi-

upon

sub-

beneath

inter-

between

oglio-

few

pan-

all

poly-, multi-

many

con-, syn-, sym-

with, together

dys-

bad

eu-

good