Medical Combining Forms and Their Meanings

Combining Forms and Their Meanings

Page 1: Digestive System Combining Forms

• Pept/o: digestions

• Sigmoid/o: sigmoid colon

• Pharyng/o: pharynx or throat

• Intestin/o: intestine

• Phag/o: to eat or swallow

• Pancreat/o: pancreas

• Or/o: mouth

Page 2: Other Combining Forms

• Ven/o: veins

• Leuk/o: white

• Myc/o: fungus

• Lingu/o: tongue

• Lith/o: stone

• Steat/o: fat

• Xer/o: dry

Page 3: Additional Medical Terms

• Emet/o: vomiting

• Hydr/o: water

• Halit/o: breath

• Edentul/o: without teeth

• Hepat/o: liver

• Esophag/o: esophagus

• Gastr/o: stomach

• Gingiv/o: gums

Page 4: Integumentary and Related Systems

• Hidr/o: sweat, perspiration

• Myc/o: fungus

• Lip/o: lipid, fat

• Hirsut/o: hairy, rough

• Py/o: pus

• Onych/o: fingernail or toenail

• Melan/o: black, dark

• Cry/o: cold

• Rhin/o: nose

• Cutane/o: skin