Medical Terminology: Chapter 2-Suffixes and Combining Forms

pyo

first forming

-er, -ist

one who

-iatrician

practitioner

-logist

one who studies; specialist

-ac, -al, -ic, -ical

pertaining to

-logic, -logical

pertaining to the study of

-iatrics, -iatry

medical profession or treatment

-logy

study or science of

cardi/o

heart

crin/o

to secrete

dermat/o

skin

esthesi/o

feeling or sensation

gastr/o

stomach

enter/o

intestines

ger/a, ger/o, geront/o

elderly

gynec/o

female

immun/o

immune

ne/o, nato/o

new, birth

neur/o

nerve

obstetr/o

midwife

onc/o

tumor

ophthalm/o

eye

orth/o

straight

ped/o

child or foot (based on context)

ot/o

ear

laryng/o

larynx

path/o

disease

psych/o

mind

radi/o

radiation

rheumat/o

rheumatism

rhin/o

nose

ur/o

urinary tract (or urine)

-centesis

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

-ectomy

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

-lysis

process of loosening, freeing or destroying

-pexy

surgical fixation

-plasty

surgical repair

-rrhaphy

suture

-scopy

visual examination with a lighted instrument

-stomy

formation of an opening

-tome

an instrument used for cutting

-tomy

incision (cutting into tissue)

-tripsy

surgical crushing

aden/o

gland

angi/o

vessel

append/o, appendic/o

appendix

bi/o

life or living

blephar/o

eyelid

cerebr/o, encephal/o

brain

chir/o

hand

col/o

colon or large intestine

cutane/o, derm/a

skin

faci/o

face

hepat/o

liver

mamm/o, mast/o

breast

muscul/o, my/o

muscle

myel/o

bone marrow or spinal cord

oste/o

bone

pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o

lungs

tonsil/o

tonsil

trache/o

trachea (windpipe)

vas/o

vessel

-algia, -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia

-ectasia, -ectasis

dilation

-edema

swelling

-emesis

vomiting

-emia

condition of the blood

-ia, iasis

condition

-itis

inflammation

-lith

stone or calculus

-malacia

soft, softening

-mania

excessive preoccupation

-megaly

enlargement

-oid

resembling

-oma

tumor

-osis

condition

-pathy

disease

-penia

deficiency

-phobia

abnormal fear

-ptosis

sagging

-rrhage, -rrhagia

excessive bleeding or hemorrhage

-rrhea

flow or discharge

-rrhexis

rupture

-spasm

twitching cramp

-stasis

stopping, controlling

-able, -ible

capable of, able of

-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic

pertaining to

-ase

enzyme

-eum, -ium

membrane

-ia, -ism

condition or theory

-iac

one who suffers

-opia

vision

-ose

sugar

-ous

pertaining to or characterized by

-y

state or condition

adip/o, lip/o

fat

amyl/o

starch

glyc/o

sugar

hemat/o

blood