Medical Terminology

Ceph

Head

Itis

Inflammation

Hist

Tissue

Poly

many

Glyc (or gluc)

Sugar

Lip

Fat

Sacchar

Sugar

Syn

Together

Macro

Large

Gastr

Stomach

Lys

Split

Append

Hang

Cardi

Heart

Homo/homeo

Same

Ology

The study of

Peri

Surround

Pleur

Lung/chest

Stasis

Staying

Tomy

To cut

Cyt

Cell

Auto

Self

Hypo

Low

Hyper

Excess

Inter

Between

Inter

Between

Intra

Within

Iso

Equal

A, ab

Without

endo

inside

plasia

growth

genesis (gen/genic)

creation

vascul

blood supply

angi

blood vessel

path

disease

strat

layer

carcin

cancer

oma

tumor

derm / cut

skin

squam

flat

strat

layer

os/oste

bone

stria

grooves

articul

join

chondr

cartilage

adip

fat

epi

upon

blast

cell that forms…

clast

cell that breaks down…

plasty

surgical repair

dys

abnormal, bad

sub

under/below

odont

tooth

myel

bone marrow/spinal cord

arthr

joint

ortho

straighten

orb

circle

my

muscle

seb

oil

opthalm

eye

psych

mind

rhin

nose

nephr

kidney

lacri

tear

algia

pain

neur

nerve

oto

ear