Med Terms 1

Word Root

Basic meaning, usually body part

Combining form

Word root with combing vowel

Suffix

Procedure, condition, disorder or disease

Prefix

Location, time, number or status

Myel

spinal cord

My

muscle

Oste

Bone

Neur

Nerve

Arthr

Joint

Cyan

Blue

Erythr

Red

Leuk

White

Melan

Black

Poli

Gray

cyte

Cell

Oma

Tumor

itis

Inflamation

Gastr

Stomach

Hyper

Excessive

Enter

Small Intestine

Plasty

Surgical repair

rrhaphy

surgical suturing

Tonsill

Tonsils

Crani

Skull Enclosing

A, R, Um, Us, Y

noun

cardi

heart

Ac, Al, An, Ar, Ary, Eal, ical, ial, ic, ine, ior, ory, ous, tic

Pertaining to

Ago, Esis, ia, iasis, ion, ism, osis, pathy

abnormal condition

Path

Disease

Algia, dynia

pain

megaly

enalrgement

hepat

liver

malacia

softening

arteri

artery

necrosis

tissue death

sclerosis

hardening

stenosis

narrowing

centesis

surgical puncture to remove fluid

abdomin

abdomen

graphy

producing an image

angi

blood vessels

gram

picture

scopy

examinaiton

rrhage, rrhagia

sudden severe bleeding

hem

Blood

ten

tendon

rrhea

flow

ria

through

nat

birth

peri

surrounding

ab

away from/negative

dextro

right

ex

out/away from

macro

large or abnormal size

mega or megalo

large/greater than

pre

before

ad

towards

sinistro

left

in

into/without

micro

small

oligo

few

post

after

dys

bad/difficult

eu

good/ easy

pnea

breathing

hypo

deficient

inter

between

intra

inside

sub

under, less, below

supra or super

above, excessive

laryng

throat

rhin

nose

ot

ear

lith

stone

appendic

appendix

edema

swelling due to fluids

phalanx

Bones in finger and toes

singular - a

plural - ae

singular - ex or ix

plural - ices

singular - is

plural - es

singular - itis

plural - itides

Singular - nx

plural - nges

Singular - on

plural - a

singular - um

plural- a

singular - us

plural - i

sign

Measured evidence EX. Fever

symptom

subjective evidence EX. headache

syndrome

set of signs and symptoms

diagnosis

Identification of disease

differential diagnosis

Rule out

prognosis

prediction

infection

Invasion of body by disease

acute

rapid onset

cronic

rarely cured and long duration

remission

temporary, partial or complete dispersal of symptoms without cure

chronic fatigue syndrome

persistent fatigue

eponym

named after discoverer

end

within

ather

plaque or fatty substance

ectomy

surgical removal