Chapter 2 Combined

crin/o

to secrete

esthesi/o

feeling or sensation

gastr/o; enter/o

stomach, intestines

ger/a; ger/o; geront/o

elderly

ot/o; laryng/o

ear, larynx

rheumat/o

rheumatism

aden/o

gland

angi/o

vessel

append/o; appendic/o

appendix

bi/o

life or living

blephar/o

eyelid

cerebr/o; encephal/o

brain

chir/o

hand

col/o

colon or large intestine

cutane/o; derm/a; dermat/o

skin

faci/o

face

hepat/o

liver

mamm/o; mast/o

breast

muscul/o; my/o

muscle

myel/o

bone marrow or spinal cord

oste/o

bone

pulm/o; pulmon/o; pneum/o; pneumon/o

lungs

tonsil/o

tonsil

trache/o

trachea (windpipe)

vas/o

vessel; ductus deferens

-algial -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia (protrusion of all or part of an organ through a wall of the cavity that contains it)

-ectasia; -ectasis

dilatation

-edema

swelling

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

condition of the blood

-ia; -iasis

condition

-itis

inflammation

-lith

stone or calculus

-malacia

soft, softening

-mania

excessive preoccupation

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition (often abnormal, sometimes an increase)

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-phobia

abnormal fear

-ptosis

prolapse (sagging)

-rrhage; -rrhagia

excessive bleeding or hemorrhage

-rrhea

flow or discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-spasm

twitching, cramp

-stasis

stopping, controlling

-centesis

surgical puncture to remove or aspirate fluid

-ectomy

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

-lysis

process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

-pexy

surgical fixation

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

suture (uniting a wound by stitches)

-scopy

visual examination using lighted instrument

-stomy

formation of an opening

-tome

an instrument used for cutting

-tomy

incision

-tripsy

surgical crushing

-er; -ist

one who

-iatrician

practitioner

-logist

one who studies; specialist

-ac; -al; -ic; -ical

pertaining to

-logic; -logical

pertaining to the study of

-iatrics; -iatry

medical profession or treatment

-logy

study or science of

-able; -ible

capable of, able to

-ac; -al; -an; -ar; -ary; -eal; -ic; -ive; -tic

pertaining to

-ase

enzyme

-eum; -ium

membrane

-ia; -ism

condition or theory

-iac

one who suffers

-opia

vision

-ose

sugar

-ous

pertaining to or characterized by

-y

state or condition

adip/o; lip/o

fat

amyl/o

starch

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood

lact/o

milk

lith/o

stone

micro-

small

muc/o

mucus

prote/o; protein/o

protein

pry/o

fire