Medical Terminology: Body Systems, Prefixes, and Suffixes

enter/o

intestines; usually the small intestine

gastr/o

stomach

glyc/o

sugar; glucose

hem/o

blood

hepat/o

liver

lip/o

fat

log/o

study

my/o

muscle

nas/o

nose

nephr/o

kidney

neur/o

nerve

or/o

mouth

oste/o

bone

path/o

disease

pulmon/o

lung

rhin/o

nose

sarc/o

flesh; connective tissue

thorac/o

chest

uter/o

uterus

a-, an-

without, lack of

ante-

before

anti-

against

bi-

two; both

brady-

slow

endo-

in; within

epi-

on; over; upon

hyper-

above; above normal; excessive

hypo-

below normal, too little

inter-

between

intra-

inside, within

peri-

around; surrounding

sub-

under

supra-

above

tachy-

fast

trans-

across, through, beyond

ultra-

beyond; excess

-ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -iac, -ial, -ic, -ical, -ior

pertaining to

-algia

pain

-cyte

cell

-ectomy

surgical removal, excision

-emia

blood condition

-gen

something that causes or produces

-ia

condition

-ine

relating to

-itis

inflammation

-logist

specialist

-logy

study of

-megaly

enlargement

-oma

tumor; mass

-osis

condition of; abnormal condition

-pathy

disease

-plasty

surgical repair

-stomy

surgical opening

-tomy

incision

-um