MedTerm - Midterm

albin/o

white

burs/o

bursa (sac of fluid near a joint)

contus/o

to bruise

cost/o

rib

dactyl/o

digits (fingers and toes)

dist/o

away from the point of origin

dors/o

back of the body

electr/o

electricity

esthesi/o

nervous sensation

ichthy/o

dry; scaly

immun/o

immune; protection

lacrim/o

tears

lip/o

fat

lob/o

lobe

onc/o

tumor

opthalm/o

eye

phalang/o

phlanges; fingers or toes

spondyl/o

vertebra; backbone

synovi/o

lubricating fluid of joints

therm/o

hot; heat

tom/o

to cut

carp/o

wrist

caus/o

burn; burning; heat

chrom/o

color

chron/o

time

fasci/o

fibrous band; fascia

flex/o

to bend

gyn/o

female; women

narc/o

numbness; sleep; stupor

necr/o

death

proxim/o

near the point of origin

psor/o

itching

psych/o

mind

pulmon/o

lung

scler/o

hardening

ventr/o

belly side of body

-esis

action; condition; state of

-lysis

breakdown; separation; loosening

-carcinoma

cancerous tumor

-phobia

fear

-esthesia

feeling; sensation

-plegic

pertaining to paralysis

-lepsy

seizure

-sis

state; condition

-asthenia

weakness

-physis

growth; growth plate

-motor

movement

-spasm

muscle contraction

-plegia

paralysis

-plasty

surgical repair

-cide

to kill

-leptic

to seize; take hold of

supra-

above

post-

after; behind

anti-

against

contra-

against

circum-

around

re-

back again; backward

mal-

bad

ante-

before

pre-

before; in front of

retro-

behind; backward

soma-

body

semi-

half

multi-

many

para-

near; beside

ex-

out; away from

ecto-

out; outside

micro-

small

per-

through

pseudo-

false

endo-

in; within

inter-

between

-malacia

softening

-stenosis

narrowing

cervic/o

neck

vertebr/o

spinal column

xer/o

dry

xanth/o

yellow

sarc/o

flesh

rhin/o

nose

ren/o

kidney

nephr/o

kidney

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

my/o

muscle

melan/o

black

hydr/o

water

hist/o

tissue

hepat/o

liver

hemat/o

blood

chondr/o

cartilage

cephal/o

head

cardi/o

heart

carcin/o

cancer

thorac/o

chest

tars/o

ankle; tarsals

somat/o

body

scoli/o

crooked; bent

pleur/o

lung

path/o

disease