The Language of Medicine 13th Edition - Chapter 1

aden/o

gland

arthr/o

joint

bi/o

life

carcin/o

cancerous, cancer

cardi/o

heart

cephal/o

head

glyc/o

sugar

gnos/o

knowledge

gynec/o

woman, female

hemat/o hem/o

blood

hepat/o

liver

iatr/o

treatment, physician

leuk/o

white

log/o

study of

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

nerve

onc/o

tumor (cancerous)

ophthalm/o

eye

oste/o

bone

path/o

disease

ped/o

child

psych/o

mind

radi/o

x-rays

ren/o

kidney

rhin/o

nose

sarc/o

flesh

sect/o

to cut

thromb/o

clot, clotting

ur/o

urinary tract, urine

ac

pertaining to

al

pertaining to

algia

pain

cyte

cell

ectomy

excision, removal

emia

blood condition

genic

pertaining to, producing, produced by, or produced in

globin

protein

gram

record

ic, ical

pertaining to

ion

process

ist

specialist

it is

inflammation

logy

process of study

oma

tumor, mass, swelling

opsy

process of viewing

osis

condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)

pathy

disease condition

scope

instrument to visually examine

scopy

process of visually examining

sis

state of condition

tomy

process of cutting, incision

y

process, condition

a-, an-

no, not, without

aut-, auto-

self, own

dia-

complete, through

endo-

within

epi-

above, upon

ex-, exo-

out, outside of, outward

hyper-

excessive, above, more than normal

hypo-

deficient, below, under, less than normal

in-

into, in

peri-

surrounding, around

pro-

before, forward

re-

back, backward, again

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through