Medical Terminology: Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes (module 1)

Arthr/o

Arthr/o

joint

Cardi/o

heart

Enter/o

intestine

Gastr/o

stomach

Hepat/p

liver

Neur/o

nerve

Hem/o

blood

Hemat/o

blood

My/o

muscle

Muscul/o

muscle

Angi/o

vessel or container

Vas/o

blood vessel, artery, or vein

Vascul/o

small vessel that circulates blood

Derm/o

skin

Dermat/o

skin

Cutane/o

skin

Pneum/o

air, gas, respiration, lungs

Pneumon/o

lung or breath

Pulmon/o

lung

Gen/o

create

Hydr/o

water or fluid

Morph/o

change

Myc/o

fungus

Necr/o

dead or death

Path/o

suffering or disease

Phag/o

eating or interesting

Plas/o

formation or growth

Py/o

pus

Sten/o

narrow or close

Xer/o

dryness

-ole

small

-algia

pain

-emia

blood condition

-iasis

presence of

-itis

inflammation

-lysis

loosen, break down

-malacia

abnormal softening

-megaly

enlargement

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhage

excessive flow

-rrhea

flow

-spasm

involuntary contraction

-centesis

puncture

-gram

written record

-scope

instrument used to look

-scopy

process of looking

-ectomy

removal

-plasty

reconstruction

-rrapphy

suture

-stomy

creation of an opening

a-

not

an-

not

anti-

against

contra-

against

de-

down, away from

Dee-

down, away from

Ante-

before

Pre-

before

Brady-

slow

Tachy-

fast

Post-

after

Ab-

away

Ad-

toward

Circum-

around

Peri-

around

Dia-

through

Trans-

through

Extra-

outside

En-

in, inside

Endo-

in, inside

Intra-

in, inside

Epi-

upon

Sub-

beneath

Inter-

between

Bi-

two

Hemi-

half

Semi-

half

Hyper-

over

Hypo-

under

Macro-

large

Micro-

small

Mono-

one

Uni-

one

Oligo-

few

Pan-

all

Poly-

many

Multi-

many

Dys-

bad

Eu-

good