Medical/Dental Terminology

A vocabulary set containing word roots, prefixes, and suffixes for Unit A Medical and Dental Terminology.

aden

gland

angio

blood vessel

arterio

artery

arthro

joint

carcin

cancer

cardio

heart

cephal

head

cerebro

brain

chem

drug

chole

gall, bile

colo

colon

costo

ribs

cranio

skull

cyan

blue

cysto

bladder, sac

cyte

cell

derma

skin

entero

intestine

epidemi

among the people

erythro

red

gastro

stomach

gingiva

gum

gloss

tongue

glyco

sugar

hepat

liver

hemo

blood

hydro

water

hystero

uterus

leuko

white

lingua

tongue

mamm, mast

breast

myelo

bone marrow

myo

muscle

nephro, ren

kidney

neuro

nerve

ocul, ophthal

eye

oophor,ovario

ovary

odont, dent

tooth

osteo

bone

oto

ear

ped, pod

foot

phleb

vein

pneumo,pulm

lung

psych

mind, soul

rhin

nose

salpingo

tube

thorac

thorax, chest

trach

trachea

Albin

white

Encephalo

brain

Litho

stone

Hom

same

Oo

egg

Septic

infection

Stric

narrowing

Viscera

organ

a, an

without

ab

away from

ad

toward

ante

before

anti

against

aut

self

bi

both, two

brady

slow

circum

round

contra

against

di

two

diplo

double

dys

painful, difficult

ecto

outside

endo, intra

inside

epi

upper, above

hemi

half

hyper

excessive, , above, more than

hypo

deficient, below, less than

inter

between

later

side

lipo

fat

mal

bad, difficult

mega/macro

large

micro

small

mono, uni

one, single

neo

new

ortho

straight

peri

around,

poly

many, much

post

behind, after

pre

before, in front of

pro

forward

pseudo

false

retro

backward, behind

semi

half

sub

below

tachy

fast

tele

distant, far

trans

across

ultra

beyond, excess

a, ac, al

pertaining to

algia

pain

ase

enzyme