(CH 2) Medical Terminology - Evolve, Quick & Easy 10th Edition

Suffixes and Combining Forms Made Easy

cardi/o

heart

crin/o

to secrete

esthesi/o

feeling or sensation

gastr/o

stomach

enter/o

intestines

ger/@, geront/o

elderly

gynec/o

female

immun/o

immune

ne/o

new

nat/o

birth

neur/o

nervous system

obstetr/o

midwife

onc/o

tumor

opthalm/o

eye

orth/o

straight

ped/o

child or foot

ot/o

ear

laryng/o

larynx

path/o

disease (combining form)

psych/o

mind

radi/o

radiation (sometimes radial bone)

rheumat/o

rheumatism

rhin/o

nose

ur/o

urinary tract (sometimes urine)

aden/o

gland

angi/o

vessel

append/o, appendic/o

appendix

bi/o

life, living

blephar/o

eyelid

cerebr/o

brain or cerebrum (main pt of the brain)

encephal/o

brain

chir/o

hand

col/o

colon or large intestine

cutane/o

skin (subcutaneous)

dermat/o, derm/@

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

lungs

pneum/o, pneumon/o

lungs (sometimes air or gas)

tonsill/o

tonsil

trache/o

trachea

vas/o

vessel or vas deferens

adip/o, lip/o

fat

amyl/o

starch

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood

lact/o

milk

lith/o

stone

prote/o, protein/o

protein

pyr/o

fire

micro-

small

-algia, -dynia

pain

-cele

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

-edema

swelling

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

condition of the blood

-ia, -iasis, -osis

condition (condition is a broad term, a disease is a type of condition)

-itis

inflammation

-itis

inflammation

-malacia

soft, softening

-mania

excessive preoccupation

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-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, staying the same

-able, -ible

capable of, able to

-ase

enzyme

-eum, -ium

membrane

-ia, -ism

condition or theory

-iac

one who suffers

-opia

vision

-ous

pertaining to or characterized by

-y

state or condition

-er, -ist

one who

-iatrician

practitioner

-iatrics, -iatry

medical profession or treatment

-logist

one who studies; specialist

-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -ive, -tic

pertaining to

-logic, -logical

pertaining to the study of

-logy

study or science of

-centesis

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

-ectomy

excision or surgical removal

-lysis

process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

-pexy

surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

-rrhaphy

suture

-scopy

visual examination

-stomy

formation of an opening