Med Term Mod. 2

Iatr/o, -Iatry

Medicine, physician, medical treatment

Medic/o

medicine, medical treatment

therap/o, therapeut/o, -therapy

Treatment

pharmac/o, pharmaceutic/o

Drugs, medicine

Diet/o

food

chirurgic/o

surgery

Log/o, -logy

word, speech, study of

nom/o, -nomy

law, custom, knowledge/laws of

Physi/o, physic/o

nature, growth, function

physical, natural

Techn/o

Art, skill

Erg/o, -ergasia

work, function

San/o, Sanit/o

Health

Hygien/o, Hygiei/o

Health

Anthrop/o

Human

hom/o, homin/o

human

Idi/o

individual, distinct

dem/o

People

Ethn/o

race, culture

Gen/o

race, kind, hereditary, gene

Andr/o

Male, masculine, stamen of a flower

Virgil/o

Male, masculine

Gyn/o, gynec/o

Female, feminine, pistil of a flower (gynoecium)

Femin/o

Female, feminine

Ped/o

Child

Pueril/o

child

Ger/o, Geront/o

Elderly, Old age

Presby/o

Elderly, old age

sen/o, senil/o

elderly, old age

Gnos/o, Gnost/o, -Gnosia, -Gnosis, -Gnomy

Knowledge, knowing; -gnomy = a means of knowing

eti/o, aeti/o

Cause

Esthesi/o, -esthesia

Sensation, feelings

Morb/o

Disease

Nos/o, -Nosis

Disease

Path/o, -Pathy, -Path

disease, feeling, suffering; -path = one affect by a disease, one who treats a disease

Mort/o,

death

Thanat/o, -Thanasia

Death

Necr/o

dead body, dead

febr/o

fever

pyr/o, pyret/o

fever, fire; pyret- = fever

Hem/o, Hemat/o, -Emia, -Hemia

Blood; -Emia = condition of blood

Poly-

Many

Mult/i

many

cal/o, calor/o

heat, calorie

Rubr/o

red, redness

Erythr/o

Red, redness (red blood cell)

Tum/o

Swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

onc/o, -oncus

swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

edemat/o, -edema

swelling

Trop/o, -Trophy

Nourishment, growth

Tabet/o

Wasting

Cel/o, Kel/o, -Cele

hernia, protrusion

Cyt/o

cell

cell/o, cellul/o

cell

Cancer/o

Cancer, crab

Carcin/o

Cancer, crab

Mal/o

Bad, faulty; malign- = cancerous, becoming worse

Kak/o, cac/o

bad, faulty

phlog/o

inflammation

Dolor/o

pain

Noc/o, Noxi/o

Pain

Alg/o, -Algia, -Algesia

Pain; -algia = Painful condition; -algesia = Sense of pain

Odyn/o, -odynia

pain

Acu/o, acut/o

Needle, sharpness, pointed

oxy/o, -oxia

sharpness, quick, acid, oxygen; -oxia = oxygen condition

chron/o

time (prolonged)

pur/o, purul/o

pus

py/o

pus

rhe/o, -rrhea

Flow; -rhhea = a discharge (of a fluid)

-rrhexis

a rupture

-Rrhagia, -Rrhage

rupture with profuse discharge of a fluid (typically blood)

Rhagad/o

tear, fissure, cleft

-penia

decrease, deficiency

mega-, megal/o, -megaly

enlargement, large

micr/o

small

macr/o

large, long

lys/o, -lysis

breakdown, dissolving

Malac/o, -malacia

soft, abnormal softening

-ptosis

downward displacement, prolapse

-ectasis, -ectasia

dilation, expansion

Schiz/o, -Schisis

A splitting, a cleft

Stas/o, Stat/o, -Stasis, -Stat

A standing, stoppage, cause to stand; -stat = A device for stopping, ceasing something

Poiet/o, -poiesis

to make, produce

Plast/o, -plast, plasia

formed, molded; -plast = forming cell or organelle; -plasia = condition of formation, growth

Fac/o, Fic/o, Fact/o, Fect/o

To make, cause

Gen/o, -Gen

To become, be produced

Graph/o, -Graph, -Graphy

Writing; -graph = a device for an image or written record, or the record itself; -graphy = process of recording, writing

grammat/o

-gram

Something written or drawn

metr/o, -meter, -metry

measure, measurement; -meter = measuring instrument; -metry = the process of measuring something

-tomy, -ectomy, -tome

Incision, excision, device for making an incision

-Stomy

Surgical creation of an opening (stoma)

-Plasty

surgical reconstruction

-rrhaphy

surgical suturing

-pexy

Surgical fixation

-Tripsy

Crushing

-Scopy, -scope

Examination, esp. with a device;

-Desis

Surgical binding, fusion

-Centesis

Surgical punture for aspiration

-Section

A cutting