final review

abdomin/o, lapar/o

abdomen

dors/o, poster/o, dorsi-

back, back part of body

anter/o, ventr/o

front, belly side of body

later/o

side

lumb/o

low back

proxim/o

nearest

dist/o

far, distant

medi/o

middle

hist/o

tissue

cyt/o, -cyte

cell

sarc/o

flesh

viscer/o

internal organs

-algia, -dynia

pain

-cele

hernia

-centesis

surgical puncture to remove fluid

-coccus

berry shaped bacteria

-ectomy

removal

-emia

blood condition

-er, -or

one who

-genesis

condition of producing

-gram

record

-graph

instrument to record

-graphy

process of recording

-esis, -ia

condition

-ist

specialist

-itis

inflammation

-logy

process of study

-lysis

breakdown, separation, destruction

-malacia

softening

-megaly

enlarged, enlargement

-ole, -ule

small

-oma

tumor, mass, swelling

-opsy

process of viewing

-iasis, -osis

condition, usually abnormal

-pathy

disease condition

-penia

deficiency

-phobia

fear

-physis

to grow

-plasm

structure, formation

-ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ical, -tic, -ous

pertaining to

-plasia

formation, development

-ism, -y

process, condition

-plasty

surgical repair

-ptosis

drooping, falling, prolpase

-rrhea

discharge, flow

-sclerosis

hardening

-scope

instrument to visually examine

-scopy

process of visual examination

-stasis

stop, control

-stomy

opening to form a mouth

-therapy

treatment

-tomy

incision

-trophy

nourishment, development

-ium, -um

structure, tissue

-us

structure, substance

-genic

pertaining to producing

-oid

derived from, resembling

-ose

pertaining to, full of

-blast

immature

-crine

to secrete

-drome

to run

-fusion

to pour, coming together

-gen

substance that produces

-lapse

to fall, slide, sag

-meter

to measure

-mission

to send

ox/o, -oxia

oxygen

-partum, -tocia

birth, labor

-para, -parous, -phor/o

to bear, carry

dia-

complete, through

trans-

across, through

ec-, ecto-, ex-

out, outside, away from

epi-, supra-

above, upon, upper

hemi-

half

hyper-

above, excessive, more than normal

hypo-

below, deficient, less than normal

in-

in, into, within, not

infra-, sub-

below, beneath, under

endo-, intra-

within, in

inter-

between

macro-

large

micro-

smal

mal-

bad

meta-

beyond, change

ultra-

beyond, excess

neo-

new

pan-

all

para-

abnormal, beside, near

per-

through

peri-

surrounding

multi-, poly-

many, much

post-

after, behind

pre-

before, in front of

re-

back, again

retro-

behind, backward

uni-

one

an/o

anus

amyl/o

starch

append/o, appendic/o

appendix

chol/e

bile, gall