Med term CH18 and CH22

medical terminology words

• depress/o: press down

• -ical: pertaining to

• -osis: condition

• act/o: performance

• traumat/o: wound

• ad-: toward

• soci/o: partner, ally, community

• -ative: quality of

• -ion: action, condition

• stimul/o: excite

• schiz/o: to split, cleave

• cognit/o: thinking

• anti-: against

• -ism: condition

• -path: disease

• bi-: two

• san/o: sound, healthy

• dis-: apart, away from

• mod/o: method

• -ity: condition, state

• -iatry: treatment

• narciss/o: self-love

• post-: after

• somat/o: body

• pyr/o: fire

• cata-: down

• -phobia: condition of fear

• multi-: many

• dys-: bad, painful, difficult

• -ic: pertaining to

• mut/o: silent

• claustr/o: confined space

• -form: appearance of 

• phor/o: to carry, bear

• log/o: study

• co-: together, with

• morbid/o: disease

• hallucin/o: imagination

• agor/a: marketplace

• -al: pertaining to

• -iasis: condition, state of

• delus/o: deceive

• in-: in, not

• -logist: specialist in the study of

• klept/o: to steal

• -therapy: treatment

• psych/o: mind

• -ive: quality of

• acr/o: peak, extremity, highest point

• compuls/o: drive

• -mania: frenzy

• -ar: pertaining to

• -ant: agent, forming

• -ance: condition, state of

• uni-: one

• chondr/o: cartilage

• -ation: condition, process

• -ia: condition

• somn/o: sleep

• narc/o: sleep, stupor

• pol/o: pole

• toler/o: to endure

• eu-: normal, good

• dict/o: surrender

• -tic: pertaining to

• ton/o: pressure, tension

• path/o: disease

• hypo-: deficient, below

• -oid: resembling

• phren/o: mind, diaphragm