IS1 - Medical Terminology Group #4

Aden/o

gland

Amni/o

amnion (sac of fluid surrounding the embryo)

Angi/o

artery

Arthr/o

joint

Ather/o

plaque (a yellow, fatty material)

Axill/o

armpit (underarm)

Bronch/o

bronchial tube

Carcin/o

cancerous

Cardi/o

heart

Chem/o

drug; also chemical

Cholecyst/o

gallbladder

Chron/o

time

Col/o

colon (large intestine or bowel)

Crani/o

skull

Cry/o

cold

Cyst/o

urinary bladder; also a sac of fluid or a cyst

Electr/o

electricity

Encephal/o

brain

Erythr/o

red

Esophag/o

esophagus (tube leading from the throat to the stomach)

Hem/o

blood

Hepat/o

liver

Hyster/o

uterus

Inguin/o

groin (area in which the thigh meets the trunk of the body)

Isch/o

to hold back

Lapar/o

abdomen (abdominal wall)

Laryng/o

voice box (larynx)

Leuk/o

white

Mamm/o

breast (use with –ARY, -GRAPHY, -GRAM, and –PLASTY)

Mast/o

breast (use with –ECTOMY and –ITIS)

Men/o

menses (menstruation); month

Mening/o

meninges (membranes around the brain and spinal cord)

My/o

muscle

Necr/o

death (of cells)

Nephr/o

kidney (use with all suffixes, except –AL and –GRAM; use REN/O with –AL and –GRAM)

Neur/o

nerve

Oophor/o

ovary

Oste/o

bone

Ot/o

ear

Pelv/o

hip area

Peritone/o

peritoneum (membrane surrounding organs in the abdomen)

Phleb/o

vein

Pneumon/o

lung

Pulmon/o

lung

Radi/o

x-rays

Ren/o

kidney (use with –AL and –GRAM)

Rhin/o

nose

Salping/o

fallopian (uterine) tube

Sarc/o

flesh

Septic/o

pertaining to infection

Thorac/o

chest

Tonsill/o

tonsil

Trache/o

windpipe; trachea

Ur/o

urine or urea (a waste material); urinary tract

Vascul/o

blood vessel

-algia

condition of pain; pain

-emia

blood condition

-ia

condition

-itis

inflammation

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor, mass

-osis

condition, abnormal condition

-pathy

disease condition

-rrhea

flow, discharge

-rrhage or –rrhagia

excessive discharge of blood

-sclerosis

hardening

-uria

condition of urine

-al or –eal

pertaining to

-ar

pertaining to

-ary

pertaining to

-ic

pertaining to

-centesis

surgical puncture to remove fluid

-ectomy

removal, resection, excision

-gram

record

-lysis

separation, breakdown, destruction

-plasty

surgical repair, or surgical correction

-scopy

process of visual examination

-stomy

opening

-therapy

treatment

-tomy

incision, cutting into