Medical Terminology Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Arthr/o

Joint

Cardi/o

Heart

Enter/o

Small intestine

Gastr/o

Stomach

Hepat/o

Liver

Neur/o

Nerve

Hem/o, Hemat/o

Blood

My/o, Muscul/o

Muscle

Angi/o, Vas/o, Vascul/o

Vessel (most commonly refers to blood vessel, but can also refer to other types of vessels as well)

Derm/o, Dermat/o, Cutane/o

Skin

Pneum/o, Pneumon/o, Pulmon/o

Lung

Gen/o

Creation, Cause

Hydr/o

Water

Morph/o

Shape,form

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

-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -tic, -ous

Pertaining to

-ia, -ism

Condition

-ium

Tissue, Structure

-y

Condition, procedure

-icle, -ole, -ule, -ula

Small

-iatrics, iatry

Medical Science

-iatrist

Specialist in medicine of

-ist

Specialist

-logist

Specialist in the study of

-logy

Study of

-algia, -dynia

Pain

-cele

Hernia (a bulging of tissue into an area where is 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, 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

What is the plural of -a?

-ae

What is the plural of -ax?

-aces

What is the plural of -ex?

-ices

What is the plural of -ix?

-ices

What is the plural of -is?

-es

What is the plural of -ma?

-mata

What is the plural of -on?

-a

What is the plural of -um?

-a

What is the plural of -us?

-i

What is the plural of -y?

-ies

a-, an-

not

anti-, contra-

against

de-

down, away from

ante-, pre-

Before

Pro-

before, on behalf of

brady-

slow

tachy-

fast

post-

after

re-

again

ab-

away

ad-

toward

circum-, peri-

around

dia-, trans

through

e-, ec-, ex,

out

ecto-, exo-, extra-

outside

en-, endo-, intra-

in, inside

epi-

upon

sub-

beneath

inter-

between

bi-

two

hemi-, semi-

half

hyper-

over