Medical Terminology: All the terms Weeks 1-13

trache/o

trachea, windpipe

-phagia

eating, swallowing

cholecyst/o

gallbladder

or/o

mouth, oral cavity

esophag/o

esophagus

enter/o

small intestine

rect/o

rectum, straight

chole-

bile, gall

appendic/o

appendix

-stalsis

contraction, constriction

pulm/o

lung

-pnea

breathing

pharyng/o

throat, pharynx

pneum/o

lung, air

oxy/o

oxygen

bronch/o

bronchial tube, bronchus

pleur/o

pleura, side of the body

-ptysis

spitting

calci/o

calcium

thromb/o

clot

ophthalm/o

eye, vision

-opia

vision condition

ot/o

ear, hearing

optic/o

eye, vision

retin/o

retina

scler/o

sclera, white of eye,

tympan/o

tympanic membrane, eardrum

auscultate

listen

palpate

touch, feel,

brady-

slow

tachy-

fast

angi/o

blood or lymph vessel

aort/o

aorta

arteri/o

artery

-emia

blood, blood condition

hemat/o

blood, relating to blood

ven/o

vein

vas/o

vessel

inter-

between, among

intra-

within, inside

phleb/o

vein

encephal/o

brain

-phobia

abnormal fear

psych/o

mind

-graphy

process of producing a picture or record

-lepsy

seizure

phas/o

speak or speech

caus/o

burning, burn

-esthesia

sensation, feeling

mening/o

membranes, meninges

-mania

obsessive preoccupation

-malaise

feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness

exudate

fluid, leaks out of infected wound

fasci/o

fascia, fibrous band

tend/o

tendon, stretch out, extend, strain

para-

two, beside, alongside

quadr/o

four

tri-

three

-paresis

partial or incomplete paralysis

-plegia

paralysis, stroke

ton/o

tone, stretching

endo-

in, within, inside

-trophy

development, nourishment

hemi-

half

exo-

out of, outside, away from

bi-

twice, double, two

kinesi/o

movement

-dynia

pain

prone

patient lying on his belly, face down

supine

patient lying on his back, face up

lateral

direction toward or nearer the side, away from midline

chondr/o

cartilage

umbilic/o

navel

crani/o

skull

sub-

under, less, below

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

peri-

surrounding, around

thorac/o

chest

cost/o

rib

bi/o

life

ather/o

plaque, fatty substance

-necrosis

tissue death

-sclerosis

abnormal hardening

-stenosis

abnormal narrowing

epi-

above, upon, on

inflammation

localized response to an injury or destruction of tissues

seb/o

sebum

anatomy

study of structures of the body

physiology

study of the functions of the structures of the body

urtic/o

rash, hives

myc/o

fungus

Sign

objective evidence of disease such as a fever, can be measured

Symptom

subjective evidence of a disease, such as pain/headache, patient/resident 'says'

-centesis

surgical puncture to remove fluid

cephal/o

head

-plasia

development, growth, formation

-emesis

vomiting

-rrhage

abnormal, excessive fluid or discharge

oste/o

bone

leuk/o

white