AHS Chapter 1

Aden/o

Gland

Arthr/o

Joint

Bi/o

Life

Carcin/o

Cancerous, cancer

Cardi/o

Heart

Cephal/o

Head

Cerebr/o

Cerebrum (largest part of the brain)

Cis/o

To cut

Crin/o

To secrete (to form and give off)

Cyst/o

Urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst

(Sac containing fluid)

Cyt/o

Cell

Derm/o

Dermat/o

Skin

Electr/o

Electricity

Encephal/o

Brain

Enter/o

Intestines (usually the small intestine)

Erythr/o

Red

Gastr/o

Stomach

Glyc/o

Sugar

Gnos/o

Knowledge

Gynec/o

Women, female

Hemat/o

Hem/o

Blood

Hepat/o

Liver

iatr/o

Treatment, physician

Leuk/o

White

Log/o

Study of

Nephr/o

Kidney

Neur/o

Nerve

Onc/o

Tumor (cancerous)

Ophthalm/o

Eye

Oste/o

Bone

Path/o

Disease

Ped/o

Child

Psych/o

Mind

Radi/o

X-rays

Ren/o

Kidney

Rhin/o

Nose

Sarc/o

Flesh

Sect/o

To cut

Thromb/o

Clot, clotting

Ur/o

Urinary tract, urine

-ac

-al

Pertaining to

-algia

Pain

-cyte

Cell

-ectomy

Excision, removal

-emia

Blood condition

-genic

Pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in

-globin

Protein

-gram

Record

-ic

-iCal

Pertaining to

-ion

Process

-ist

Specialist

-itis

Inflammation

-logy

Process of study

-oma

Tumor, mass, swelling

-opsy

Process of viewing

-osis

Condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)

-pathy

Disease condition

-scope

Instrument to visually examine

-scopy

Process of visually examining

-sis

State of; condition

-tomy

Process of cutting, incision

-y

Process, condition

A-, an-

No, not, without

Aut-, auto-

Self, own

Dia-

Complete, through

Endo-

Within

Epi-

Above, upon

Ex-, exo-

Out, outside of, outward

Hyper-

Excessive, above, more than normal

Hypo-

Deficient, below, under, less than normal

In-

Into, in

Peri-

Surrounding, around

Pro-

Before, forward

Re-

Back, backward, again

Retro-

Behind

Sub-

Below, under

Trans-

Across, through