Medical Terminology: Combining Forms, Suffixes, and Prefixes

A comprehensive collection of medical vocabulary flashcards including common combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes as detailed in the lecture notes.

adeno

Gland

arthro

Joint

bio

Life

carcino

Cancer

cardio

Heart

cephalo

Head

cerebro

Cerebrum

cis/o

To cut

crin/o

To secrete

cyst/o

Urinary bladder

cyt/o

Cell

dermo / dermato

Skin

electro

Electricity

encephalo

Brain

entero

Intestine

erythro

Red

gastro

Stomach

glyco

Sugar

gnoso

Knowledge

gyneco

Woman / female

hemato / hemo

Blood

hepato

Liver

iatro

Treatment / physician

leuko

White

logo

Study

nephro

Kidney

neuro

Nerve

onco

Tumor

ophthalmo

Eye

osteo

Bone

patho

Disease

pedo

Child

psycho

Mind

radio

X-rays

reno

Kidney

rhino

Nose

sarco

Flesh

sect/o

To cut

thrombo

Clot / clotting

uro

Urinary tract / urine

ac / al / ic / ical

Pertaining to

algia

Pain

cyte

Cell

ectomy

Excision; removal; resection

emia

Blood condition

genic

Pertaining to producing; produced by or produced in

globin

Protein

gram

Record

ion

Process

ist

Specialist

itis

Inflammation

logy

Process of study

oma

Tumor, mass, swelling

opsy

Process of viewing

osis

Condition

pathy

Disease condition

scope

Instrument to visually examine

scopy

Process of visually examining

sis

State of conditioning

tomy

Process of cutting

a / an

No, not, without

aut / auto

Self, own

dia

Complete, through

endo

Within

epi

Above, upon

exo

Out, outward, outside of

hyper

Excessive, above, more than normal

hypo

Deficient, below, under, less than normal

peri

Around

pro

Forward, before

re

Back, backward, behind, again

retro

Behind

sub

Below, under

trans

Across, through