Medical Terminology: Body Structures, Diseases, and Prefixes

adenoid/o

adenoids

agglutin/o

clumping; sticking together

angi/o

vessel (blood)

arteri/o

artery

bacteri/o

bacteria

calc/o

calcium

cyt/o

cell

erythr/o

red

eti/o

the cause of a disease or condition

fung/o

fungus

hem/a, hem/o, hemat/o

blood

iatr/o

physician; treatment

immun/o

immune; protection

kal/i

potassium

kary/o

nucleus

leuk/o

white

lipid/o

fatty deposits; lipids

log/o

study

ly/o

break down; dissolve; loosen

lymph/o, lymphat/o

lymph

lymphaden/o

lymph node

lymphangi/o

lymphatic vessel

morph/o

shape; form

myel/o

bone marrow; spinal cord

nucle/o

nucleus

path/o

disease

phag/o

eat; swallow; engulf

phleb/o

vein

ser/o

serum; serous

splen/o

spleen

thromb/o

clot

thym/o

thymus

tonsill/o

tonsils

tox/o

poison

ven/i, ven/o

vein

vir/

virus

a-, an-

not; without

anti-

against

auto-

self

con-

together; with

en-

in; within

epi-

on; over; upon

macro-

large

mega-

large

meta-

change; beyond

mono-

one; single

neo-

new

poly-

many; much

pro-

before; forward

trans-

across

-al, -ar, -ic, -ical, -tic

pertaining to

-ation

process; condition

-blast

developing cell

-capnia

carbon dioxide

-cide

to kill

-crit

to separate

-cyte

cell

-e

noun suffix with no meaning

-ectomy

surgical removal; excision

-emia

blood condition

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

-fuge

to separate by spinning

-fusion

to pour; to come together

-gen

substance that produces

-globulin

protein

-iac

condition

-in, -ine

chemical; chemical compound; substance

-itis

inflammation

-logist

specialist

-logy

study of

-lysis

breakdown; separation; loosening

-lytic

pertaining to breakdown or destruction

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor; mass

-osis

process; abnormal condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-phage

eat; swallow

-pheresis

removal

-phil, -philia

love; attraction for

-phoresis

transmission; carrying

-plasm

formation; structure

-plastic

pertaining to formation

-plasty

surgical repair

-poiesis

formation

-rrhage

rupture; bursting forth (of blood)

-sis

state; condition

-stasis

stoppage of flow

-suppression

to stop

-therapy

treatment

-tomy

process of cutting; incision