Medical Terminology - Chapter 1 (Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes, Combining Forms

aden/o

gland

arthr/o

joint

bi/o

life

carcin/o

cancer, cancerous

cardi/o

heart

cephal/o

gland

cerebr/o

cerebrum, largest part of the brain

cyst/o

urinary bladder

cyt/o

cell

derm/o

skin

dermat/o

skin

electr/o

electricity

encephal/o

brain

enter/o

intestines

(often the small intestines)

erythr/o

red

gastr/o

stomach

gnos/o

knowledge

gynec/o

woman, female

hem/o

blood

hemat/o

blood

hepat/o

liver

lapar/o

abdomen

leuk/o

white

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

nerve

onc/o

tumor

ophthalm/o

eye

oste/o

bone

path/o

disease

psych/o

mind

ren/o

kidney

rhin/o

nose

sarc/o

flesh

thromb/o

clotting

- al

pertaining to

- algia

pain

- cyte

cell

- ectomy

cutting out; removal, excision

- emia

blood condition

- globin

protein

- gram

record

- ia

condition

- ic

pertaining to

- 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

- 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-

back

retro-

behind

sub-

below, under

trans-

across, through

Pertaining to the heart

D A C C I R A

Cardiac

Nerve pain

U G A R E N L A I

neuralgia

Deficiency of hemoglobin causes this condition

I M E A N A

Anemia

Study of cells

G L Y C O T O Y

Cytology

Infants are often born in this position…head

first!

P C L A H I E C

Cephallic

Inflammation of a gland

N I D I E A S T

Adenitis

Bonus Term: Malignant diagnosis

C R N M O A C I A

Carcinoma