MT Key Parts

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat

anter/o

before, front

caud/o

lower part of body, tail

cephal/o

head

cyt/o

cell

-cyte

cell

end-

in, within, inside

endo-

in, within, inside

exo-

out of, outside, away from

hist/o

tissue

-ologist

specialist

-ology

the science/study of

path/o

disease, suffering, feeling, emotion

-pathy

disease, suffering, feeling, emotion

-plasia

development, growth formation

poster/o

behind, toward the back

-stasis

control, maintenance of a constant level

-static

control, maintenance of a constant level

ankyl/o

crooked, bent, stiff

arthr/o

joint

burs/o

bursa

chondr/i, chondr/o

cartilage

cost/o

rib

crani/o

skull

-desis

to bind or tie together

kyph/o

bent, hump

lord/o

curve, swayback, bent

lumb/o

lumbar/lower back

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

oss/e, oss/i, ost/o, oste/o

bone

scoli/o

bent

spondyl/o

vertebrae, vertebral column, backbone

synovi/o, synov/o

synovial membrane, synovial fluid

Bi-

twice, double, two

clon/o

violent action

dys-

bad, difficult, painful

fasci/o

fascia, fibrous band

fibr/o

fibrous tissue, fiber

kines/o, kinesi/o

movement

-lysis

to set free, break down

my/o

muscle

-plegia

paralysis, stroke

tax/o

coordination, order

ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o

tendon, stretch out, extend, strain

ton/o

tone, stretching tension

tri-

three

angi/o

blood or lymph vessel

aort/o

aorta

arteri/o

artery

ather/o

plaque, fatty substance

brady-

slow

cardi/o

heart

-crasia

a mixture or blending

-emia

blood, blood condition

erythr/o

red

hem/o, hemat/o

blood, relating to the blood

leuk/o

white

phleb/o

vein

tachy-

fast, rapid

thromb/o

clot

ven/o

vein

Anti-

against

carcin/o

cancerous

immun/o

immune, protection, safe

lymph/o

lymph, lymphatic tissue

lymphaden/o

lymph node or gland

lymphangi/o

lymph vessel

neo-

new, strange

ne/o

new, strange

-oma

tumor, neoplasm

onc/o

tumor

phag/o

eat, swallow

-plasm

formative material of cells

sarc/o

flesh, connective tissue

splen/o

spleen

-tic

pertaining to

tox/o

poison, poisonous

bronch/o, bronchi/o

bronchial tube, bronchus

laryng/o

larynx, throat

nas/o

nose

ox/i, ox/o, ox/y

oxygen

pharyng/o

throat, pharynx

phon/o

sound, voice

pleur/o

pleura, side of body

-pnea

breathing

pneum/o, pneumon/o, pneu-

lung, air

pulm/o, pulmon/o

lung

sinus/o

sinus

somn/o

sleep

spir/o

to breathe

thorac/o, -thorax

chest, pleural cavity

trache/o, trachea

windpipe, trachea

an/o

anus, ring

chol/e

bile, gall

cholecyst/o

gallbladder

col/o

colon, large intestine

colon/o

colon, large intestine

-emesis

vomiting

enter/o

small intestine