Chapter 3 Quick and Easy Medical Terminology

anti-, contra-

against

quad-, quadri-, tetra-

four

phas/o, -phasia

speech

leps/o, -lepsy

seizure

pleg/o, -plegia

paralysis

metr/o, -meter, -metry

measure

schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o, -schisis

split, cleft

lys/o, -lysin, -lysis, -lytic

destruction, dissolving

path/o, -pathy

disease

phag/o, -phagia, -phagic, -phagy

eat, ingest, swallowing

scler/o, -sclerosis

hard, hardening

scop/o, -scope, -scopy

to examine, to view, instrument used for viewing

cyt/o, -cyte

cell

gen/o, -genic, -genesis

beginning, origin

troph/o, -trophic, -trophy

nutrition

malac/o, -malacia

soft, softening, abnormal softening

gram/o, -gram, -graph

to record, instrument used to record

kinesi/o, -kinesia, -kinesis

movement, motion

megal/o, -megaly

large, enlarged, enlargement

bi-, di-

two

ad-

toward

nulli-

none

ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra-

out, without, away from

ante-, pre-

before in time or place

primi-

first

dia-

through

pro-

favoring, supporting

pan-

all

melan-

black

xanth/o

yellow

erythry/o

red

inter-

between

chlor/o

green

cyan/o

blue

para-

near, beside, or abnormal

post-

after, behind

super-, supra-

above, beyond

contra-

against or opposed

milli-

one thousandth

ab-

away from

multi-, poly-

many

en-, endo-, end-

inside

infra-, hypo-, sub-

under, less than normal or beneath

hyper-

excessive, more than normal

centi-

one hundredth

circum-, peri-

around

intra-

within

trans-

across

sym-, syn-

joined, together

retro-

behind, backward

mono-, uni-

one

ipsi-

same

brady-

slow

alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o,

white

tachy-

fast

per-

through or by

a- an-

no, not, without

mal

bad

meso-, mid-

middle

macro-, mega-, megalo-

large, great

eu

good

tri-

three

hemi-, semi-

half, partly

diplo-

double

super-, ultra-

excessive

ante-, pre-, pro-

before

epi-

above, on

in-

not or inside

micro-

small

dys-

bad or difficult

therm/o

heat

fribr/o

fiber

top/o

position or place

hist/o

tissue

electr/o

electricity

aer/o

air

narc/o

stupor

crypt/o

hidden

cancer/o, carcin/o

cancer

blast/o

embryonic form

cry/o

cold

cephal/o

head

py/o

pus

photo

light

trache/o

trachea, windpipe

dips/o

thirst

optic/o, opt/o

vision

necr/o

dead

myc/o

fungus

phon/o

voice

febrile

pertaining to a fever