HIM 2360- Med Terms

Chapter 1 - Lesson 1.1

Combining Form:

aden/o - gland

arther/o - joint

bi/o - life

carcin/o - cancerous, cancer

cardi/o - heart

cephal/o - head

cerebr/o - cerebrum

cis/o - to cut

crin/o - to secrete

cyst/o - urinary bladder

cyt/o - cell

derm/o or dermat/o - brain

enter/o - intestines

erythr/o - red

gastr/o - stomach

glyc/o - sugar

gnos/o - knowledge

gynec/o - woman, female

hemat/o or hem/o - blood

hepat/o - liver

iatr/o - treatment, physician

leuk/o - white

log/o - study of

nephr/o - kidney

neur/o - nerve

onc/o - tumor

ophthalm/o - eye

oste/o - bone

path/o - disease

ped/o - child

psych/o - mind

radi/o - x-rays

ren/o - kidney

rhin/o - nose

sarc/o -flesh

sect/o - to cut

thromb/o - clot, clotting

ur/o - urinary tract, urine

Suffixes:

-ac (pertaining to)

-al (pertaining to)

-algia (pain)

-cyte (cell)

-ectomy (excision, removal)

-emia (blood condition)

-genic (produced by or in)

-globin (protein)

-gram (record)

-ic, ical (pertaining to)

-ion (process)

-ist (specialist)

-itis (inflammation)

-logy (process of study)

-oma (tumor, mass, swelling)

-opsy (process of viewing)

-osis (condition, usually abnormal)

-pathy (disease condition)

-scope (instrument to visually examine)

-scopy (process of visually examining)

-sis (state of; condition)

-tomy (process of cutting, incision)

-y (process, condition)

Prefixes:

a-, an- (no, not, without)

aut-, auto- (self, own)

dia- (complete, through)

endo- (within)

epi- (above, upon)

ex-, exo- (out, outside of, outward)

hyper- (excessive, above, more that normal)

hypo- (deficient, below, under, less than normal)

in- (into, in)

peri- (surrounding, around)

pro- (before, foward)

re- (back, backward, again)

retro- (behind)

sub- (below, under)

trans- (across, through)