Roots, Suffixes, and Prefixes

arthr/o

joint

enter/o

small intestine

gen/o

creation or cause

myc/o

fungus

ortho/o

straight

plas/o

formation

scler/o

hard

py/o

pus

sten/o

narrowing

troph/o

development

xen/o

foreign

-ia, -ism

condition

-ium

structure or tissue

-y

condition

-icle, -ole, -ule, -ula

small

-iatrics, -iatry

medical science

-iatrist

specialist within the medicine of

-algia, -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia

-emia

blood condition

-iasis

presence of

-itis

inflammation

-lysis

breakdown

-malacia

abnormal softening -

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhage, -rrhagia

excessive flow

-rrhea

flow

-rrhexis

rupture

-spasm

involuntary contraction