Medical Terminology Practicals

A comprehensive set of medical terminology flashcards covering roots, prefixes, suffixes, abbreviations, and clinical acronyms.

acr/o

extremity, tip

aden/o

gland

append/o, appendic/o

appendix

arteri/o

artery

arthr/o

joint

bi/o

living thing, life

cardi/o

heart, upper part of stomach

col/o, colon/o

large intestine, colon

crani/o

skull

cyst/o

sac of fluid, bladder

cyt/o

cell

derm/o, dermat/o

skin

duct/o

carry

enter/o

small intestine

gastr/o

stomach

gen/o

giving rise to, creating

gloss/o

tongue

glyc/o

blood sugar

hem/o, hemat/o

blood

hepat/o

liver

hist/o

tissue

hydr/o

water, fluid

leuk/o

white

lith/o

stone

muc/o

mucus

my/o

muscle

myel/o

bone marrow, spinal cord

neur/o

nerve

norm/o

proper, rule

oste/o

bone

path/o

disease

ped/o

child, infant, foot

pulmon/o

lung

ren/o

kidney

secti/o

cut into

splen/o

spleen

tens/o

pressure

therm/o

heat

thorac/o

chest

thromb/o

clot

ven/o

vein

a/ (also an/)

without, absent

ab/

away from

ac/

toward, near

ad/

toward, near

anti/

against, opposed

brady/

slower than usual

cata/

negative, down

de/

lessened, removed

dia/

through

ec/ (also ex/)

outside, outer

ecto/ (also exo/)

outside, outer

en/, end/o

within

epi/

upon, in addition

hemi/

half

hyper/

increased, above

hypo/

decreased, below

inter/

between

micro/

small, tiny

per/

through

pre/

before

in/

into; not

intra/

within

pan/

all, every

peri/

around, surrounding

re/

again, back

infra/

inferior to, below

macro/

gross, large

para/

beside, beyond

post/

after, past

retro/

behind, back

sub/

under, inferior to

tachy/

faster than usual

/graph

instrument that creates a picture or recording

/graphy

process of creating a picture, record, tracing

/ia

condition

/ectomy

removal

/emia or /hemia

throughout the blood

/grade

go

/gram

picture, record, tracing

/cyte

cell

/eal

relating to

/ar

relating to

/ary

relating to

/centesis

withdrawing fluid

/ac

relating to

/al

relating to

/algia

relating to pain

/ose

like, relating to (also suffix for chemical name for sugar)

/osis

pathologic condition

/ous

relating to

/meter

distance measure, instrument to measure

/oid

like structure

/opsy

look at

/ium

relating to

/logy

study of; also used as a root word—log/o

/megaly

enlargement

/itis, /itic

inflammation (noun) (adjective)

/ism

situation, process, condition

/ist

one who does