Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots

Words are from the Certified Verbatim Reporter (CVR) study guide published by the National Verbatim Reporters Association (NVRA)

-algia

pain

-asis

condition

-asthenia

weakness

-ectomy

excision, surgical removal

-emia

blood condition

-genic

producing, causing

-itia, itis

inflammation

-lysis

reduction, destruction

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor, swelling

-oscopy, -osopy, -opsy

to view

-ostomy

creation of artificial opening

-otomy

cut into

-pathy

disease

-penia

insufficiency

-plegia

paralysis

-pnea

breathing

-sclerosis

hardening

-sepsis

infection

-stasis

control/stop

-tropic

influencing

a-

without/absence of

ab-

away from

ad-

to/toward

an-

without

ante-

before

anti-

against

bi-

two

brady-

slow

bronch-

windpipe

cardi-

heart

carp

wrist

contra-

against

cutane

skin

cyst

bladder

cyt

cell

derm

skin

dors

back

ecto-

outside

encephal

brain

endo-

within

enter

intestines

erythr

red

exo-

outside

gangli

swelling

gastr

stomach

glyc-

sweet

hema

blood

hepat

liver

homeo

same

hyper-

above

hypo-

below

im-

not

infra-

under/below

inter-

between

intra-

inside

lact

milk

leuko

white

lip

fat

macro-

large

mal-

bad

mening

membrane

meso-

middle

meta-

after

morph

shape/form

mut-

change

myo

muscle

nephr

kidney

olfact

to smell

oo

egg, ovum

oss, oste

bone

patho-

disease

peri-

surrounding

phleb

vein

pleur

rib

pod

foot

proct

rectum

psych

mind

puber

adult

pyr

fever

ren

kidney

retro-

back

scler

hard

somat

body

strat

layer

sub-

under/below

super-

over/above

supra-

above

tachy-

fast

thromb

clot

trans-

through, across, beyond

ultra-

beyond, excess

ven

vein