Medical Terminology for Eye, Ear, and Sensory Structures

acous/o

hearing

acoust/o

hearing; sound

ambly/o

dull; dim

aque/o

water

audi/o, audit/o

hearing

aur/o

ear

blephar/o

eyelid

cerumin/o

cerumen

cochle/o

cochlea

conjunctiv/o

conjunctiva

cor/o, core/o

pupil

corne/o

cornea

cry/o

cold

cyst/o

cyst; fluid sac; bladder

dacry/o

tear

dipl/o

double

glauc/o

gray

graph/o

writing

gustat/o

taste

ir/o, irid/o

iris

kerat/o

cornea

lacrim/o

tears

mi/o

smaller; less

mydr/o

widened; enlarged

myring/o

tympanic membrane; eardrum

nyct/o

night

ocul/o

eye

olfact/o

smell

ophthalm/o

eye

opt/o, optic/o

eye; vision

orbit/o

eye socket

ossic/o

ossicle (small bone)

ot/o

ear

papill/o

optic disc; nipple-like

phac/o, phak/o

lens of the eye

phon/o

sound

phot/o

light

presby/o

old age

retin/o

retina

rhin/o

nose

salping/o

Eustachian (auditory) tube; fallopian tube

scot/o

darkness

staped/o

stapes (middle ear bone)

steat/o

sebum; fat

stigmat/o

point

ton/o

tone; tension

tympan/o

eardrum

vestibul/o

vestibule

vitr/o

vitreous body

vitre/o

glassy

a-

not; without

an-

not; without

ec-

out; outside

en-

in; within

eso-

inward

exo-

outward

hyper-

above; above normal; excessive

hypo-

below; below normal; deficient

infra-

below; beneath; inferior

intra-

within; into

-al, -ar, -atic, -ic, -ory, -ous, -tic

pertaining to

-cusis

hearing

-ectomy

surgical removal; excision

-esthesia

feeling; sensation

-gram

record; image

-ia

condition

-ion

process; state; condition

-ism

process; condition

-itis

inflammation

-meter

measure

-metry

process of measuring

-motor

movement

-oma

tumor; mass

-opia

vision condition

-osmia

smell condition

-otia

ear condition

-pathy

disease

-pexy

surgical fixation

-phobia

fear

-plasty

surgical repair

-plegia

paralysis

-ptosis

droop; sag; prolapse; protrude

-sclerosis

hardening; thickening

-scope

instrument used to view

-scopy

visual examination using a scope

-spasm

muscle contraction

-stomy

surgical opening

-tomy

process of cutting; incision

-tropia

to turn