Learn: Medical Terminology 10th edition, Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Arthr

Joint

Hepat

Liver

Ven

Vein

Oste

Bone

-itis

Inflammation

-pathy

Disease

-megaly

Enlargement

-ic

Pertaining to

-ous

Pertaining to

Intra-

Within

Sub-

Under

Aden/o

Gland

Carcin/o

Cancer

Cyt/o

Cell

Erythr/o

Red

Iatr/o

Physician, medicine, or treatment

Leuk/o

White

Lip/o

Fat

Melan/o

Black

My/o

Muscle

Neur/o

Nerve

Onc/o

Tumor, mass

Plasm/o

Growth, substance, formation

Path/o

Disease

Somat/o

Body

Dys-

Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored

Hyper-

Above, excessive

Hypo-

Below, deficient

Meta-

After, beyond, change

Neo-

New

-al

Pertaining to

-cyte

Cell

-gen

Substance or agent that produces or causes

-genic

Producing, originating, causing

-logist

One who studies and treats (physician)

-logy

Study of

-oid

Resembling

-oma

Tumor, swelling

-osis

Abnormal condition, means increase when paired with blood cell word root

-ous

Pertaining to

-pathy

Disease

-stasis

Control, stop, standing

Anter/o

Front

Caud/o

Tail (downward)

Cephal/o

Head (upward)

Dist/o

Away

Dors/o

Back

Infer/o

Below

Later/o

Side

Medi/o

Middle

Poster/o

Back, behind

Proxim/o

Near

Super/o

Above

Ventr/o

Belly (front)

Bi-

Two

Uni-

One

-ad

Toward

-ior

Pertaining to

Eti/o

Cause (of disease)

Chrom/o

Color

Chlor/o

Green

Cyan/o

Blue

Xanth/o

Yellow

Kary/o

Nucleus

Gno/o

Knowledge

Fibr/o

Fiber

Rhabd/o

Rod shaped, striated

Lei/o

Smooth

Pro-

Before

Dia-

Through, complete

-plasia

Condition of formation, development, growth

-sis

State of

-plasm

Growth, substance, formation