BASIC WORD STRUCTURE

aden/o

gland

arthr/o

joint

bi/o

life

carcin/o

cancer, cancerous

cardi/o

heart

cephal/o

head

cerebr/o

cerebrum, largest part of the brain

cyst/o

cyt/o

derm/o; dermat/o

skin

electr/o

encephal/o

enter/o

erythr/o

red

gastr/o

stomach

gnos/o

knowledge

gynec/o woman, female

hem/o, hemat/o blood

hepat/o

liver

lapar/o

abdomen

leuk/o

white

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

onc/o

ophthalm/o

eye

oste/o

path/o

psych/o

ren/o

rhin/o

sarc/o

thromb/o

clotting

• al

pertaining to

• algia

pain

• cyte

cell

• ectomy

cutting out; removal, excision

• emia

• globin

• gram

• ia

• ic

• ism

condition, process

• itis

inflammation

• logist

specialist in the study of

• logy

study of

• oma

tumor, mass

• opsy

process of viewing

• osis

abnormal condition

• scope

instrument to visually examine

• oma

tumor, mass

• opsy

process of viewing

• osis

abnormal condition

• scope

instrument to visually examine

• scopy

process of visual examination

• sis

state of

• tomy

process of cutting into (incision)

a-, an-

no, not

aut-

self

dia-

complete, through

dys-

bad, painful, difficult, abnormal

endo-

within

epi-

above, upon, on

exo-

outside

hyper-

excessive, more than normal, too much

hypo-

below, less than normal, under

pan-

all

peri-

surrounding

pro-

before, forward

re-

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through