med terminology quiz 1

aden/o gland

arthr/o joint

bi/o life

carcin/o cancerous, cancer

cardi/o heart

cephal/o head

cis/o to cut

crin/o to secrete (to form and give off)

cyst/o urinary bladder; a sac or a cyst (sac containing fluid)

cyt/o cell

derm/o skin

dermat/o skin

electr/o electricity

encephal/o brain

enter/o intestines (usually the small intestine)

erythr/o red

gastr/o stomach

glyc/o sugar

gnos/o knowledge

gynec/o woman, female

hemat/o 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 (cancerous)

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

-ac pertaining to cardiac

-al pertaining to neural

-algia pain

-cyte cell

-ectomy excision, removal

-emia blood condition

-genic pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced 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 (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells)

-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

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 than normal

hypo- deficient, below, under, less than normal

in- into, in incision

peri- surrounding, around

pro- before, forward

re- back, backward, again

retro- behind

sub- below, under

trans- across, through