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