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iatr/o

treatment, physician

-iatry

medical treatment

medic/o

physician, medicine (combining form)

therap/o, therapeut/o, -therapy

treatment

pharmac/o, pharmaceutic/o

medicine, drug

diet/o

food

chirurgic/o

surgery

log/o

word/speech

-logy

study of

-nom

law/custom

-nomy

knowledge/laws of

physi/o

nature/growth/function

physic/o

physical/natural

techn/o

art/skill

erg/o, -ergasia

work/function

san/o, sanit/o

health

hygien/o, hygiei/o

health

anthrop/o

human

hom/o, homin/o

human

idi/o

individual, distinct

dem/o

people

ethn/o

race, people

gen/o

race, kind, hereditary, gene

andr/o

masculine, male, stamen of a flower

viril/o

masculine, male

gyn/o, gynec/o

feminine, female, ovary of a flower

femin/o

female, feminine

ped/o

child

pueril/o

child

ger/o, geront/o

elderly, old age

presby/o

elderly, old age

sen/o, senil/o

elderly, old age

gnos/o, -gnosis

knowledge, knowing

eti/o, aeti/o

cause

esthesi/o, -esthesia

feeling, sensation

morb/o

disease

nos/o

disease

path/o, -pathy, -path

disease, feeling, suffering

mort/o

death

thanat/o, -thanasia

death

necr/o

dead body, dead

febr/o

fever

pyr/o

fire, fever

pyret/o

fever

hem/o, hemat/o

blood

-emia, -hemia

condition of blood

poly-, multi-

many

cal/o

heat

rubr/o

red, redness

erythr/o

redness, red blood cells

tum/o

swelling tumor, mass, abnormal

onc/o, -oncus

swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

edemat/o, -edema

swelling

troph/o, -trophy

nourishment

tabet/o

wasting

cel/o, -cele

hernia, prostrusion

cyt/o

cell

cell/o, cellul/o

cell

cancer/o

cancer, crab

cancr/o

spreading ulcer

carcin/o

cancer, crab

mal/o, kak/o, cac/o

bad, faulty

phlog/o

inflammation

dol/o

pain

noc/o, noxi/o

pain

alg/o, -algia, -algesia

pain

odyn/o, -odynia

pain, painful condition

acu/o, acut/o

needlelike, sharp, pointed

oxy/o

sharp, quick, acid, oxygen

-oxia

oxygen condition

chron/o

time

pur/o, py/o

pus

rhe/o

flow

-rrhea

discharge, flow

-rhexis

rupture, to break

-rrhagia, -rrhage, -rrhagy

rupture with a profuse discharge of fluid

rhagad/o

tear, fissure, cleft

-penia

deficiency

mega-

enlargement, large

megal/o, -megaly

large

micr/o

small

macr/o

large, long

lys/o, -lysis

breakdown, resolving

malac/o, -malacia

soft, abnormal softening

-ptosis

downwards, displacement, prolapse

-ectasis, -ectasia

dilation, expansion

schiz/o, -schisis

split, cleft

stas/o, stat/o, -stasis

a standing, stoppage, causing to stand

-stat

a device to stop/cease something

poiet/o, -poiesis

to make, produce

plast/o

formed, molded

-plast

forming cell or organelle

-plasia

condition of a formation, growth

fac/o, fic/o, fact/o, fect/o

to make, cause

-gen

to become, to produce

graph/o

writing

-graph

instrument for recording

-graphy

process of recording, writing

grammat/o, gramm/o

something written or drawn

-gram

a record or image of something