Complete Master Deck Medical Terminology Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots, and Common Terms (VOCABULARY Flashcards)

400 vocabulary flashcards covering prefixes, suffixes, root words, terms by body system, and common medical abbreviations.

A-/An-

Without, not

Ab-

Away from

Ad-

Toward

Ambi-

Both

Amphi-

Both sides

An-

Without

Ante-

Before, forward

Anti-

Against

Arthr/o-

Joint

Auto-

Self

Bi-

Two

Brady-

Slow

Circum-

Around

Co-/Con-

With, together

Contra-

Against, opposite

Cryo-

Cold

Crypt-

Hidden

Cyano-

Blue

Cysto-

Bladder

Dia-

Through

Dys-

Bad, painful, difficult

Ecto-

Outside

En-

Inside

Encephal/o-

Brain

Endo-

Within

Epi-

Upon, over

Erythro-

Red

Eu-

Normal or good

Ex-/Exo-

Out, outside

Extra-

Outside, beyond

Hemi-

Half

Hetero-

Different

Homo-

Same

Hydro-

Water

Hyper-

Excessive, high

Hypo-

Below, deficient

Infra-

Below, beneath

Inter-

Between

Intra-

Within

Iso-

Equal

Leuko-

White

Macro-

Large

Mal-

Bad, poor

Mega-

Large

Micro-

Small

Neo-

New

Neur/o-

Nerve

Ob-

Against

Oligo-

Few, scanty

Ophthalm/o-

Eye

Ortho-

Straight, correct

Oste/o-

Bone

Ot/o-

Ear

Pan-

All

Para-

Beside, near

Per-

Through

Peri-

Around

Post-

After

Pre-

Before

Pseudo-

False

Re-

Again

Retro-

Backward

Seb/o-

Sebum

Semi-

Half

Sub-

Under, below

Super-/ Supra-

Above, excessive

Sym-/Syn-

Together, with

Tachy-

Fast

Trans-

Across, through

-al

Pertaining to

-algia

Pain

-cele

Hernia, swelling

-centesis

Surgical puncture to remove fluid

-cyte

Cell

-ectasia

Dilation or expansion

-ectasis

Stretching or expansion

-ectomy

Surgical removal

-edema

Swelling caused by fluid accumulation

-emesis

Vomiting

-emia

Blood condition

-gen

Producing, causing

-gram

Record, writing

-graph

Instrument for recording

-graphy

Process of recording

-ia

Condition or state

-iasis

Abnormal condition

-ism

Condition, disease, or belief/system

-ist

Specialist in a field

-itis

Inflammation

-ium

Structure or tissue

-logist

Specialist in a particular field

-logy

Study of

-lysis

Breakdown, destruction

-malacia

Softening

-megaly

Enlargement

-oid

Resembling

-oma

Tumor, mass

-osis

Abnormal condition

-otomy

Cutting into

-pathy

Disease