Nursing Term 1

NURS 104

arthr/o

joint

cardi/o

heart

enter/o

small intestine

gastr/o

stomach

hepat/o

liver

neur/o

nerve

hem/o or hemat/o

blood

my/o or muscul/o

muscle

angi/o or vas/o or vascul/o

vessel

derm/o or dermat/o or cutane/o

skin

pneum/o or pneumon/o or pulmon/o

lung

gen/o

creation, cause

hydr/o

water

morph/o

change

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death

orth/o

straight

path/o

suffering, disease

phag/o

eat

plas/o

formation

py/o

pus

scler/o

hard

sten/o

narrowing

troph/o

nourishment, development

xen/o

foreign

xen/o

foreign

-ac

pertaining to

-al

pertaining to

-ar

pertaining to

-ary

pertaining to

-eal

pertaining to

-ic

pertaining to

-tic

pertaining to

-ous

pertaining to

-ia

condition

-ism

condition

-ium

tissue, structure

-y

condition, procedure

-icle

small

-ole

small

-ule

small

-ula

small

-iatrics or -iatry

medical science

-iatrist

specialist in medicine of…

-ist

specialist

-logist

specialist in the study of…

logy

study of

-algia or -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia (tissue bulging into an area it doesn't belong)

-emia

blood condition

-iasis

presence of…

-itis

inflammation

-lysis

loosen, break down

-malacia

abnormal softening

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-ptosis

drooping

-rrhage or -rrhagia

excessive flow

-rrhea

flow

-rrhexis

rupture

-spasm

involuntary contraction

-centesis

puncture

-gram

written record

-graph

instrument used to produce a record

-graphy

writing procedure

-meter

instrument used to measure

-metry

process of measuring

-scope

instrument used to look

-scopy

process of looking

-desis

binding, fixation

-ectomy

removal

-pexy

surgical fixation

-plasty

reconstruction

-rrhaphy

suture

-stomy

creation of an opening

-tomy

incision

a- or an-

not

anti- or contra-

against

de-

down, away from

ante- or pre-

before

pro-

before, on behalf of

brady-

slow

tachy-

fast

post-

after

re-

again

ab-

away

ad-

toward

circum- or peri-

around

dia- or trans-

through

e- or ec- or ex-

out

ecto- or exo- or extra-

outside

en- or endo- or intra-

in, inside

epi-

upon

sub-

beneath

inter-

between

bi-

two